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BiographyJan Celliers
… near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an English school. In 1874 the family moved to Pretoria, where his father…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… is an offshoot of the Hlubi tribe. He traces his roots back to a small town near Alice , where his ancestors most likely … the time the villagers around him…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… was regarded as a grey area community of people who came to be classified during the Apartheid years, as ‘coloured’ … childhood, aged 4 in the 1950s when…
BiographyPeter Clarke
… were balanced people in that they wanted their children to choose the right paths. They were both interested in … about this”. By the time he was four the…
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… dream and that of his organisation - taken as far back as 1942 - to grow the ANC membership to one million, members of the media are reminded of the … Zuma…
EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
… The Zulu army ordered to arm by Col. Bottomley to assist the British during the Anglo-Boer War, marched back to Nongoma. Two Zulus were killed in…
BiographyJames la Guma
… and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, Arnold, and his wife Jemima. While … long hours at a Parow bakery. When…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… Shanty town women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's … by the…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Nigeria
… Bafana, under mentorship of Coach Trott Moloto, lost 0-2 to Nigeria in the semi-final African Cup of Nations (AFCON) … at the Johannesburg International…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… “Just Transition” has become the buzz term used to explain the socioeconomic need to address the jobs and communities built around fossil fuel … a socially…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
… Douglas Chadwick Thompson was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, … England. In 1907 the family left Manchester…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… Committee made history by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the non-violent resistance…
Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London
… the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) aimed to contest was the 1913 Land Act, an urgent issue that … SANNC sent petitions and deputations, but…
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
… began his schooling in Kenya, and when his parents moved to South Africa in the 1963,he attended Kingswood College in … In 1971 he enrolled at the University…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… School in Johannesburg. In 1904 his father sent him to Bihar in India, where tutors were engaged to teach him privately. In 1910, when he was 18, he married …
BiographyJohn Stephen Gomas
… completed most of his school before moving with his mother to the Malay Camp in Kimberly and becoming apprenticed to atailor at age 14.He joined the at the…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… Sithole. Image source The challenge of Black Consciousness to the Apartheid state See: … the 1980s By the 1980s the apartheid system was beginning to weaken…
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 28 July 2004, Simon Mann, a British citizen, pleaded guilty to attempting to buy dangerous weapons in…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
… In 1936, faced with economic hardship, his family returned to India which was engaged in its own struggle for … terms of imprisonment in that country, before…
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… Calvin Thusago, a reporter for the SABC, was stabbed to death by a mob of youths as he and a colleague were on their way back from Sharpeville where they had…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were the first people to live at the Cape. They got their food by hunting wild … that they did not settle in one place…
ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
… some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC leadership had … of not using violence. Secondly, this…
BiographySamir Amin
… was one of the most important contributions to the discussion over the Third Worlds place in the World … Amin was born in Cairo in 1931. In 1947, he moved to…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
… Sadly, it disbanded in 1959. Gwangwa then went on to become a composer of note and became the first black South African to release an album. Gwangwa…
BiographyKim Ludbrook
… Natal. After completing his national service he moved to England in 1990 and studied photojournalism from 1993-1994 … After freelancing for Rex Features in…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… in the face of a popular uprising after he had tried to boycott participation in South Africa's first democratic … were shot and wounded by local police. A…
BiographyJames Kantor
… James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) … became a lawyer, Kantor was one of the…
BiographySadie Forman
… Krill, a Yiddish poet and writer, emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa in 1913. In 1952, Forman married Lionel … During this trying time, Forman provided…
ANC President Nelson Mandela says that next week’s general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was not an
… ANC President Nelson Mandela says that next week’s general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was …
Some 200,000 Coloured workers stay away from work (15 – 16 September) in the Cape Town area. The extent of the strike is unex
… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … – 16 September) in the Cape Town area. The extent of the strike is…