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BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… in England on March 15 1841. He moved with his family to the Cape Colony in South Africa in 1849, where his father became Bishop of Grahamstown. He went to…
ArchiveSubbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance" - University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
… Moodley. SM: Thank you. VR: Mr Moodley, we would like to go back a little, talk about your days as a young child. The … spoon ‑ you know, onto a…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The article seeks to contribute to the development of new…
BiographyIan Berry
… Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams,…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
… member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later to be renamed the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA). … and committed teacher who, like others in…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… 18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 … located in the western shadow of the Meuse…
BiographyChief Malebogo
… a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the Blouberg, about 110 kms from Pietersburg and close to the Soutpansberg Range. Malebogo became…
BiographyAnna Tempo
… after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner with her welfare … women in prison and hospital, and paid…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), to a middle class Indian family. [i] From an early age Jana … who challenged social injustices,…
BiographyChris Hani
… Chris grew up a devout Christian. Hani was introduced to the politics of inequality early in life, when his father had to leave their rural home in search of…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South Africa, where David chose to pursue a career in anthropology. David became actively ……
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… in Krugersdorp, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 June 1980 to Ethel and Simon Maimane but grew up in Dobsonville, … of Business Science in Johannesburg, before…
PlaceSkukuza Airport, Mpumalanga
… Prior to the commencement of scheduled flights to Skukuza Airport on 2 June 2014, the Airport Runway was … most beautiful airport by Forbes, a recognition…
BiographyNana Sita
… which was active in the Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 and lived for some time with J.P. Vyas in Pretoria, to study book-keeping…
BiographyWolf Kibel
… His father’s death in 1911 brought sudden insecurity to Kibel as a child. He studied briefly in Poland under the … a painter visiting from London. He became…
Mama Beshenga
… and the aged were being taken away from urban areas to barren places where there were no schools, clinics and jobs. Husbands remained behind to work as…
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… Dingane ka Senzangakhona was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela … had his half-brother Mhlangana murdered and thus rose…
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
… early age and was raised by his sister. The family moved to Marabastad and then to Atteridgeville in 1942 where he enrolled at De Jong … School and completed…
BiographyMargaret Gazo
… 1918. She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the extension of the pass laws to women…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) when he was 10. In 1940, after finishing school, he signed up…
Bantu Education boycott
… African mothers like fowls who lay eggs for other people to take away and make what they like with them.' Lillian … education for our children. This Bantu…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… riperile, ndimadekwana, Thank you for the opportunity to address Parliament and the nation. Today marks the 26th … how we can turn the situation around and…
Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli
… a banishment order dated 8 March 1954 that banished her to Uitkyk Farm No. 92 in the Groblersdal district of the … and other leaders from Witzieshoek, there…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as … died a few years later. Qabula and his…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to political meetings and became fully conversant with the … politically active. She became the first…
BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 … powerful public speaker. In his first year he was…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… Areas Act , Act No 41 was passed in 1950. As he matured to adolescence through the 1950s and the early 1960s, the Nationalist controlled government began to…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
… as a domestic worker. Household conditions forced Florence to drop out of the school during Std 6 and look for a job to assist her mother to raise her…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… family moved around in a few small towns in Argentina, due to her father’s business. The family moved to Brazil when her father was transferred there in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… through which South Africans can pay fitting homage to a great South African by addressing fundamental issues of law and society. Today we give further…