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ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… from Durban and Johannesburg travelled to Cape Town to cover the launch of the UDF. Jimi Matthews, just before the … Culture and Working Life Project. • Omar…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… achieve a political purpose, and that it was followed by a cover-up reaching into the top echelons of the South African … judgement. ... The massacre was…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded Abyssinia (later…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘homeland’, now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents…
BiographyAntjie Krog
Antjie was born on 23 October 1952 on a farm in the Free State. She completed her BA degree with Afrikaans (cum laude), Philosophy (cum laude) and English at…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town. Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the…
BiographyAndries Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the Graaff Reinet district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the…
BiographyJames Matthews
James David Matthews was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing standard seven, Matthews began to work…
BiographyViola Hashe
Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…
BiographySheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the Roedean School…
BiographyMpiyeza Mlaba
Mpiyeza Mlaba supported Mzwangedwa Mlaba’s campaign to be chief of his community, in the Camperdown District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], but the community…
BiographyCharlie Mlaba
Charlie Mlaba supported Mzwangedwa Mlaba’s campaign to be the chief of his community, in the Camperdown District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], but the community…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… and injuring over 200 others. ANC supporters take cover on the Ciskeien side of the border with South Africa …
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and his mother were…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… answer the printed page needs to fight the e-book wave. Cover and book design by The Suits Communications scores a … eclectic book collection over 40 years…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… Dictionary? These are for the most part well done and cover a lot of ground. 2. More images. More images would add … Your newsletter looks excellent and the…
PlaceVhembe District Municipality
Vhembe District Municipality is a second-order administrative division and is located in, South Africa, with a population of 1 240 035 habitants. The estimate…
BiographyMzwangedwa Mlaba
Mzwangedwa Mlaba allegedly campaigned to be the Chief of his community in the Camperdown District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], but the community voted for…
BiographyJabulani Sikhakhane
Mr Jabulani Sikhakhane has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on financial and political reporting. He has…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… 1964 as a large rose garden and subsequently expanded to cover an area of around 125 hectares. The Botanical Garden … 1964 as a large rose garden and…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Party-ANC conflicts of the 1990s. Perhaps Kally did not cover these events? Or did he, and Rajab decided to omit them …
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… Africanist Congress (PAC). These meetings were held under cover of Young African Religious Movement (YARM) or Young … African Christian Movement (YACM). YACM…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
Rarely in realms beyond the scope of politics does one encounter personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to exert…
BiographySir George Grey
George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days before…
PlaceBotrivier, near Hermanus
The small, picturesque village of Botrivier lies in the foothills of the Houw Hoek Mountains, en route to Hermanus. The Bot River, after which the hamlet is…