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BiographyJoey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in Wellington, Cape…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… of the mines. It is during this period that recruitment of Africans from adjacent rural areas intensified. And as more Africans made their way to the mines…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… state in the 1950s. On 6 April 1952 while white South Africans celebrated the tercentenary of Jan van Riebeeck's … the Cape in 1652, the ANC and SAIC called…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… Institute in the United States, where other notable South Africans (such as Charlotte Maxeke ) also studied. His sons …
BiographyPatrick “Bra Pat” Matanjana
Patrick Matanjana was born in 1943. Bra Pat, as he was affectionately known, was a member of the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto weSizwe…
BiographyGopal Krishna Gokhale
Mr GK Gokhale was the Founder of the Servants of India Society in Poona. On Ghandi's invitiation, he Toured South Africa in October of 1912. He was associated…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… in the privileged class of Natal kholwa - a tiny group of Africans that played an influential role in the early history … the mass of ordinary workers…
The Mountain Committee
… adjoining Ngquza Hill, between Bizana and Lusikisiki. Africans from a score of kraals had met there to discuss … and police vehicles approached from two…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923,he was one of seven children in a rural family that was later…
BiographyJacob Mafora
Born in 1906, Mafora was a domestic servant and a gardener. He was President of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Orange Free State and ex-officio…
BiographyDundubela Aubrey Mokoena
Dundubela Aubrey Mokoena, was the former executive director of the Black Community Programmes (BCP). November 1978. Soweto. he was released from prison and…
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… the racial and ethnic categories used to describe South Africans are constructed and based on the false ideas of …
BiographyMoses Mphahlele
Moses Mphahlele was the Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Transvaal during the 1920s, he was born in Pietersburg and received his…
BiographyAaron Mahlangu
Born in 1914 Mahlangu was a trade unionist. As a domestic worker, Mahlangu took part in the 1942 anti-pass campaign and was sacked. Later he was again…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… of violent attacks have been carried out by black South Africans. Overview The history of refugees and asylum seekers … South Africa are also viewed as…
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
BiographyRenfrew Leslie Christie
At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the South African Army. He was on guard at Lenz ammunition dump (east of Johannesburg), when he saw…
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
The South African writer, Abraham Hermanus de Vries, was born on Tuesday the 9th of February, in 1937, in a small town and agricultural centre of the western…
BiographyAlbert Newall
Albert Newall was born in 1920 in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Newall enlisted with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1937, where he trained and later served…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… race. In short, Apartheid was the system during which Africans were legally, socially, politically and economically … laws, which further dictated the…
BiographyNkosiyakhe Amos Masondo
Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo was born on April 21,1953 in Soweto,one of nine children,his parents were tenants on a white farm near Louwsburg in the Northern Natal…
BiographyDuke Themba Machobane
Duke Themba Machobane went into exile to Nigeria around 1977. He studied for his ‘A Levels’ in Ogoja, south eastern Nigeria. After completing his ‘A levels’ in…
BiographyNtloe Mabe
Ntloe Mabe, originally a resident of Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, [Western] Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 19 December…
BiographySeth Moanakwena
Seth Moanakwena, originally resident at Mabieskraal [Pilansberg], Rustenburg District, [Western] Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 19…
BiographyNgwenduna Vanda
Ngwenduna Vanda, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) was from Peddie, Eastern Cape. He was killed in combat with the…
BiographySimon P. Mkalipi
One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial, he was born in 1913 in Grahams town and completed the sixth grade. He worked as a cigarette salesman in…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… for white co-operation at the expense of black South Africans (in terms of franchise and land). It resulted in the … 'colour-blind' franchise in the Cape. By…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
BiographyCedric Radcliffe Mayson
Cedric Radcliffe Mayson was born July 16,1927 in London.After training and working briefly as an architect,he emigrated to South Africa as a Methodist minister…
BiographyThabani Derrick Zulu
He was born in Eshowe. He attended Ndaleni Art School in 1971 and continued Fine Art studies at the University of South Africa receiving a BA(FA). He has…