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Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
On 28 March 1960, Natives began making bonfires of their reference books in Johannesburg. Their action was the latest gesture of defiance against the pass laws…
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
The Book Lounge and Modjaji Books are deilghted to invite you to the launch of the "A to Z of Amazing South African Women" text by Ambre Nicolson and…
ArchiveSouth African history archives contribute to
White poster with red, blue and green lettering. Drawing of outlines of books with book ends.
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother,…
ArchivePosters in the struggle against apartheid : t
Black, white and grey poster. Black border. Notice of a poster exhibition at Gertrude Posel Art Gallery, Senate House, University of the Witwatersrand. 5 to…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His father, Zachariah, who was educated at a Mission school, was the…
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
Olive Schreiner was a writer, social theorist and a feminist whose world views were very advanced for her time. Her books though written over a century ago,…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to all other races. Hitler became obsessed with 'racial purity' and used the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant and mystical place, the city…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
As the German publisher Gerhard Steidl prepares a series of books on the life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South African photographer…
Bibliographical Data
In the preparation of the introductory essays in this volume, heavy reliance has been placed on the documents collected by the editors and the interviews conÂ…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Mthembu was born on 5…
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu was born on 28 February 1969 in KwaMashu, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She was the fifth daughter born to Sonnyboy Nkwana and…
EventMargaret Mary Smith, SA artist and ichthyologist, is born
On 26 September 1916 artist and ichthyologist, Margaret Mary Smith, was born in Indwe in the Eastern Cape. Ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with…
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the transformation of Gandhi from a lawyer-servant of…
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
The Governor of the Cape Colony in 1818 was Lord Charles Somerset. It was he who first issued a proclamation launching the first South African Public Library…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
Phyllis Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and principal. His…
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
EventNatasha Kate Sutherland, actress in the SA soap opera Egoli, is born.
Natasha Sutherland began her career in the early 1990’s as presenter of children’s show Kideo. She then joined the cast of the soapie, Egoli, launching her…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her…