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BiographyShapurji Sorabji
… Although he had a British passport valid for all of Africa,e was brought to Court on 8 July and was ordered on 10 … Sorabji would be a worthy successor to…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … In this way, the Polish nation was lashed to the war chariot of foreign nations and sucked…
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
… people of Africa, but also to the whole of the progressive world. This conference also take place in a country which has … the national leaders of the…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… 1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in … 3 May, South Africa resumes its full membership of the World Health Organisation …
ArticleThe Mendi Decoration of Bravery
… The Decoration is awarded to South African citizens who have performed an extraordinary … to visitors who come into our country from all over the world as a…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth . Bisho was one of a … African coast and placed in the care of…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the time. … a sense of history [she needed]…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime,…
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
… Association for the Education and Cultural Advancement of South Africa. She was concurrently elected as president of the Transvaal region of the world…
BiographyJoel Joffe
… a solicitor in 1956 and six years later was called to the South African bar. In his autobiography, Mandela described … being “the general behind the scenes…
BiographyAlexander Leor Fattal
… Comparative Area Studies, focusing on Latin America and Africa. The summer of 1998 he worked resettling Cuban, Bosnia … travelling and photographing…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… of Pretoria where he was awarded a scholarship by the South African Defence Force (SADF). Levin was vocally … 22 of One Military Hospital in Pretoria…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… time the ANCYL was established, political circumstances in South Africa were tenuous as the ruling United Party was divided about South Africa’s…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… High School, Port Elizabeth in 1945. She later taught at South End High, leaving there in 1964. Olive joined the Teachers League of South Africa as soon as…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. … The working classes suffered the consequences of the Boer War, the…
BiographyBrigalia Bam
… , in the Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work, … Workers Association in Geneva. She has…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… Gandhi . He had three brothers, with whom he first came to South Africa in early 1897, when Gandhi's family joined him in … accepted a year-long contract…
BiographyHarry Snitcher
… Thus she was able to manage send Snitcher to the South African College School (SACS). Snitcher taught English … on the Central Committee of the Communist…
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… Primary School between 1936 and 1941.He then came to South Africa where he did his secondary schooling at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then…
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… Indian Youth Congress and later in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), established in 1954. After the … until it was banned in 1962. She then…
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
… and electoral matters in numerous countries throughout the world. Justice Kriegler has had a long and close relationship … the Masters course in Human Rights…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… labour and civic unrest that erupted in the aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, … Johannesburg 1983. Photograph…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… newspaper that he produced for Black readers, the South African Spectator. He was also instrumental in shaping … of sorts to the activities the he would…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
… 1960 and to carry on the work of the organisation outside South Africa once they were settled. Adelaide resumed her work as a … assisting some of the…
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
… the interdenominational African Ministers' Association of South Africa (IDMASA), although he had been influence mainly by the … same time (early 1960s), he…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). The following year its name was changed to the … rapidly developed into a paramilitary…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
… over two and half decades, Ngwenya has covered some of South Africa’s hotspots and also travelled extensively doing … news worthy stories in Africa. Ngwenya…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… Former South African Prime Minister and State President, Balthazar … of and involvement the activities of the OB during World War II. He became a member of…
BiographyKhotso Seatlholo
… his exile. In 1981, during one of his secret visits to South Africa, the Security Police arrested Seatlholo and charged … into the country to recruit and…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary … , who was from Scotland, and Reverend Tiyo Soga , South…