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BiographyAmina Desai
… moment of my life” she told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996. Later, it emerged that Timol had …
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
… Later, she served as the first chairperson of the Commission of Gender Equality in 1997, and as chairperson of … S. (1996), “ Gender and the Truth…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… away from the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). NUSAS was a liberal organisation dominated by White students. … adoption of these policies,…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… burgeoning labour problems, established an independent commission headed by Professor Nic Wiehahn. As the result of … workers downed tools demanding an…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… With the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) undergoing a rightward shift, and the Christian … SASO. Factors that led to the emergence of the…
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… He is the past Chairman of the Black Economic Empowerment Commission. His directorships include South African … from his position at Lomnim. In 2015, the…
BiographyAudrey Coleman
… In 1997 she testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on the work the detention and death of …
Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo
… from 1991-1994. According to Truth and Reconciliation Commission documents, Masondo was also associated with the …
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
… collapse of apartheid, during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process in 1997 Herman Barend du Plessis, … [Accessed on 26 August 2011]|Truth…
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
… at the situation. Hobhouse was not part of this government commission, but it was her actions that put into play the …
BiographyDeputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
… appointed Deputy Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, which conducted the first democratic elections in … Africa and Deputy Chairperson of…
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
… first elections and the work of Truth and Reconciliation Commission in trying to show the complex tensions in a …
BiographyLex Mpati
… Reconciliation Committee and was a member of the Trengove Commission to determine the boundary between the Eastern Cape … Committee, a sub-committee of the…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for dockworkers were not implemented, stevedores in … the strike. By 25 January the company…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… in Harare, Zimbabwe , and as the President of the National Commission of UNESCO in Mozambique. In addition to her many … of Children and president of the…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
… for Ben Langa’s death at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, when he made his submission on behalf of the ANC … the ANC's submission to the Truth and…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… It was during this year that he became member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education for Blacks in … among others: the Ciskeian Missionary…
ArchiveCiskei Commission: transcript of an interview with Helen Suzman, Colin Eglin and R. Swart regarding the independence of the Ciskei and its socio-economic impact on black families
… Ciskei Commission: transcript of an interview with Helen Suzman, …
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Lusaka, 21 April 1979 …
BiographyEllen Elmendorp
Ellen Elmendorp was born in the Netherlands and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina,…
BiographyLouis Luyt
… the Pretoria High Court to defend his decision to launch a commission of inquiry into the level of alleged racism in …
BiographyMarius Schoon
… applied for amnesty with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Schoon testified in the TRC amnesty hearing …
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
… In January 1976 he joined the Churches Urban Planning Commission (CUPC) as a trainee youth organizer. Some of the … Association, youth organizerat the…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
… His later testimony to the truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed Inkatha's co-operation in …
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
… in anonymous letters that were sent to the Public Service Commission (PSC). The Commission could not find evidence linking them to these …
BiographyMary Malete
… (SACOTU). She served on various boards, including the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration … Unions (SACOTU). Served on various boards,…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
… he refuse to cooperate with the independent Electoral Commission in March 1994 and armed right-wing whites came to …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… South Africa. He was invited to be a member of a key commission to look at problems at the University of … Zama, Advocate Gouchi and Coovadia were part of…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
… He served on the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Commission on globalisation. In 1999, Vavi succeeded Mbhazima … of COSATU. He was married to…
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… In 1991 she was appointed a member of the Advisory Commission on Land Allocation by the State President. She was … of the selection panel for the Truth and…