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BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…
ArchiveRemarks by the Secretary-General at informal consultations in the Security Concil today ,(Namibia), Monday, 3 April 1989
… in the Security Concil today ,(Namibia), Monday, 3 April 1989 …
ArchiveStop Press: Statement by Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of KwaZulu and President of Inkatha, March3, 1989
… Minister of KwaZulu and President of Inkatha, March3, 1989 …
The Mandela document: A document presented by Nelson Mandela to P.W. Botha before their meeting on 5 July 1989
… Mandela to P.W. Botha before their meeting on 5 July 1989 …
Esmé Berman
Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and…
BiographyIan Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in…
BiographyThandi Modise
Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West. Her father, Frans Modise, a…
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
Born on the 3rd November 1933, community worker Florence Barbara Ribeiro was the fourth of five children. Her father, Henry Mathe, was a labourer in a Coal…
BiographyNöel Robb
… with legal and other bureaucratic problems. In March 1989, the Black Sash elected her as honorary life Vice … and determination to stand on principle. Right…
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
… organisations (NGOs) to help those in need. In 1989, already a mother of three, she decided to stop working …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
On 3 March 1999, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, announced to the National Assembly (Parliament) that the second non-racial…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
F. D. Tothill Even now, almost half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
BiographyBerney Perez
Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. He worked as an office machine technician while studying…
Press Statement concerning the Five-Year Plan presented by F.W. De Klerk to the National Party Conference by O. R. Tambo, 30 June 1989
… by President-elect F.W. de Klerk yesterday, 29th June, 1989, is a shocking insult to the people of South Africa. The … to the National Party Conference by O…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
"[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through the media,…
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
In this period early African political organisations were formed; these organisations precipitated the formation of the African National Congress. 1866 …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
1930 White women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work more closely with the SACP, putting behind the antagonistic relationship between the two parties in…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
On 13 January 1949 an Indian store-keeper in central Durban assaulted an African youth. This incident resulted in a wave of violence, starting at the Indian…
BiographyJudith Mason
… Art at Witwatersrand University from 1963 until 1978. From 1989–91 she taught painting at Scuola Lorenzo de' …
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. The…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1990-1999 1990 23 July, Billy Nair was detained following police allegations of an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) plot, code-named…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
1920 - 1929 1921 February, Gandhi: Second week, (Bardoli). Five days' fast in connection with Chauri Chaura incident. November 9-13, Gandhi: (Bombay)…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyJeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge was born in KwaZulu-Natal on 29 June 1952. She attended Magog and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the…
BiographyJosepha Selhorst
Josepha Selhorst was born in 1914, in Rietberg, Westphalia, Germany. She studied at UN(P) 1941-47 under Rosa Hope gaining a BA(FA) 1947 and 1956-57 at…