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BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… by diplomats from 13 Western countries – from the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Holland, … Even close allies of South Africa,…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… led a delegation of UDF leaders to Europe and the United States. She met the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher … regime’s plans to establish links…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
BiographyMogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
… District Court for the District of Maryland, United States of America (USA), co-hosted a series of workshops on …
BiographyLex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…
BiographyJabu Sithole
Jabu Sithole was born on 23 October 1949 in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where he attended primary school until age seven when he was struck…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… (BCM) , and had offices in Botswana, England, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany. The aftermath of … but also by competition for…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… the Namibian people. Pretoria Threatens Independent States It is imperative that we also underscore the reality … regime has not withdrawn its commitment to…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… the Namibian people. Pretoria Threatens Independent States It is imperative that we also underscore the reality … regime has not withdrawn its commitment to…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… On the other hand, thirty years ago this year, the Member States of the United Nations Organisation, horrified by the … of South Africa under the leadership…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective … leader Mikhail Gorbachev held…
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… Council. In 1962 the General Assembly asked that member states break diplomatic, trade and transport relations in an … exchanges. In 1963 the Security…
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… to join the 1st Mounted Infantry Brigade already in the frontline. The involvement of Canada in the South African War …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… artist; she worked as a graphic artist with ANC in various frontline states from 1972 to 1990; member of Medu Art Ensemble … through the experiences of…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… of the self-governing Colonies into great independent states did not necessarily involve a loosening of the …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… and South Africa. In 1947, he was deported from the United States to Greece, which then was in the midst of a bloody …
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a fleeting footnote…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… the country and start a new life in New York City, United States of America (USA), where he would study physics. …
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945. Solomon lived in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where she worked as a community…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… rivalry between the Soviet Union (Russia) and the United States of America. This rivalry was called the Cold War . The … from birth. In countries like South…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in South Africa and for civil rights in the United States. Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg, South Africa … 1963, both times making the billboard 200…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… in earnest when thirteen European countries and the United States met in Berlin to agree to the rules dividing Africa. … to occupy Tunisia, one of the last…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… kingdoms continued the Trans Saharan trade with the Arab states in North Africa. The Trans Saharan trade was complex. … slaves became the landless lower…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… together leaders from Africa, the Caribbean, the United States and Britain, and in the All Races Conference in London … Mandela was its Secretary. Impact on…