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| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0064882 | biography | Michael Kitso Dingake | 1928 | ✓ |
| B-0122852 | biography | Robert Gabriel Mugabe | 1924-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0121281 | biography | Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0068945 | biography | Mongane Wally Serote | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0098660 | biography | Patrice Émery Lumumba | 1925-1961 | – |
| B-0068227 | biography | Reverend Beyers Naudé | 1915 | – |
| B-0064862 | biography | Fort Calata | 1956-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068163 | biography | Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker | 1920-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0095076 | biography | Sylvia Neame | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0125558 | biography | Gerald Patrick Kearney | 1942-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0064847 | biography | Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger | 1825-1904 | – |
| B-0008229 | biography | Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0068173 | biography | Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker | 1910-1978 | ✓ |
| A-0083810 | article | History of Africa Day - 25 May | 24 May 2012 | ✓ |
| A-0016528 | article | African National Congress (ANC) | 20 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0122718 | archive | 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010 | 31 Jan 2017 | – |
| B-0084124 | biography | Kasturba Gandhi | 1869-1944 | ✓ |
| A-0124437 | article | The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign | 15 Nov 2017 | – |
| A-0098915 | article | The Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) | 13 Feb 2015 | – |
| B-0123373 | biography | Njinga Ana de Sousa | 1583-1663 | ✓ |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0121532 | biography | Diana Mary Mitchell | 1932-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0007870 | biography | David Wilcox Bopape | 1915-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008069 | biography | Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer | 1908-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0083813 | biography | Mildred Lesiea | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0093139 | biography | Jennifer Schreiner | 1956 | ✓ |
| A-0016612 | article | From Segregation to Apartheid | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0062617 | article | Obituary: Sheila Weinberg | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). He attended the Bobonong Primary School…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg on 8 May 1944, just four years before the National Party (NP) came to power in South Africa. His…
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his…
BiographyFort Calata
Fort Calata was born on 5 November 1956. Fort’s grandfather, the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata, was the Secretary General of the African National Congress…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…
BiographySylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Paul Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of…
BiographyRonald (Ronnie) Kasrils
Ronald Kasrils was born in Yeoville, Johannesburg, on 15 November 1938. His grandparents were immigrants from Latvia and Lithuania, who had fled from the…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
After World War II, the process of decolonization of the African continent gathered momentum as Africans increasingly agitated for more political rights and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
The African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa's governing party and has been in power since the transition to democracy in April 1994. The organisation…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
With just 20 days left before South Africa hosts the worlds most prestigious tournament the FIFA Soccer World Cup the African National Congress (ANC) has…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Kapadia was born on April 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters when he…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer,…
BiographyNorman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
An unassuming veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila Weinberg has suddenly died. She…