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ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent … the subsequent exiling of many of its…
America, Spanish conquest
… Hispaniola. This was the first European colony in the ‘New World’. These colonists fought among themselves and with the … were soon followed by the…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo . Upon his return to South Africa, Buthelezi’s passport was confiscated for the next … programme of the regime. This led…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
… homeland situated in the present-day Eastern Cape, South Africa. From the traditional history of succession, King Faku … and Dingane . They were engaged in a…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… the first non-racial national swimming organisation, the South African Swimming Federation (SAASwiF). When the … merged to form the Amateur Swimming…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… then under Portuguese rule, to escape poverty and came to South Africa with her sons. She settled near Pretoria where she … National Congress (ANC), ANC…
BiographyBabette Brown
… A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world, Babette Brown was born in 1931 in Johannesburg…
ArticleTransport on land
… pigeons played a very important role during the First World War. It is estimated that over 100 000 pigeons were used to … about the 3rd century they were…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA … one of many native military units…
BiographyT. J. Lemon
… In 1991 he started as a freelance contributor to the South-light Photo Agency in Johannesburg, publishing in Ada, … London, photographing the turbulent pre…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Abstract : Many South African Jews such as Eli Weinberg were heavily involved … family. Growing up, he experienced notable events such as World War I and the…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. … no vote, nor were white women…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
… on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a … After a few years abroad, Motaung…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… and codes that relate to the experience of living in South Africa today.” The diverse media that he uses gain meaning … The Castle in Cape Town. He also…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
… a book And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa (1983) which was published in London. In London, Pheto and a number of exiled South…
BiographyHerschelle Herman Gibbs
… Herschelle Gibbs, multi-talented South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town … Gibbs featured for the Proteas in two consecutive Cricket…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… Front of Zimbabwe and the African National Congress of South Africa. We thank Professor Adedeji and the entire … so well known to all of us here, in which…
BiographyJulius Nyerere
… progress of socialist liberation movements across Southern Africa (for example in Angola, Mozambique and South Africa). In 1985, after being president for…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… matriculated in 1997. He graduated from the University of South Africa, with a BA degree in Psychology, the University of the … – making him the first black…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… human rights of our citizens. While many regions of the world have made progress with their developmental challenges, … This, as we know, cannot be achieved…
BiographySylvia Neame
… she decided to become a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) – later renamed the South African Communist … When I was released after forty…
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
… diplomatic activity was insufficient to improve apartheid South Africa's negative image abroad, Rhoodie hatched secret … Scandal 1984 Discrimination in the…
BiographySaleem Badat
… in the arts and humanities to research universities in South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt, and Lebanon and to pan-African … and other addresses at…
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
… His paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie, who came to South Africa from Indonesia around the 1870s, who worked in the … mining teams. Jacob’s mother was…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Women’’s Day: Ga-Motlatla, Ditsobotla Local Municipality, North-West Province, 9 August 2008
… and Religious leaders, Distinguished guests, Fellow South Africans: This day, National Women’s Day, is of great … Parliament is ranked 10th out of 130…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
… was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who … Conference. In the same year,…
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
… the former townships and the marginalised communities of South Africa. He was educated at the University of the Western Cape … cricket for its apartheid…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… with his parents and brother, PA Pather immigrated to South Africa in 1903. The family moved to Elandslaagte, Northern … the decision taken by the leadership…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… 1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and … in his customers. In the early days, before the Second World War and…