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BiographyDr Gomolemo Mokae
… Ga-Mokopane. He was the last of the eight children born of a Methodist minister, Reverend Modisagarekwe Michael and … Hospital (now Chis Hani Baragwanath)…
PlaceMamre, Cape Town
… From one of South Africa’s oldest Churches to the delight of wine tasting and delightful Cape cuisine, … the Cape, Willem Adriaan van der Stel decided to…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… Zimbabweans, The people of this country are not strangers to the graveside. They have even known mass graves. In their … to independence they have had to…
BiographyWalter Battiss
… Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of … became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a…
BiographyDezso Koenig
… Koenig was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1902. He emigrated to South Africa from Hungary in 1931. After his training at the Hungarian Academy in Budapest he won…
BiographyRosa Hope
… Professor John Wheatley, offered her an appointment as a lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. She accepted, became a SASA member (South African…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
… Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary … Free State. His writing began at the age of nine with a poem, A little Terrible Thing…
Alan K. Mabaso
… ANC member who died in exile in Angola - death due to UNITA ambush …
PlacePofadder, Northern Cape
… Pofadder is a small town situated in the Northern Cape of South Africa . While pofadder means: 'Puff Adder'-(a type of snake). This town was named not for a…
Mbongeni Clement Khanyi
… Khanyi Mbongeni C. was sent to prison on Robben Island. He was given prison number 0/0071 …
BiographyJoseph Royeppen
… in 1910, Joseph Royeppen, a Cambridge University graduate and a barrister, and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to legislation that…
PlaceThe SAS Somerset Museum
… is stationed at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A Waterfront), Cape Town . The SAS Somerset is a bar-class boom defence vessel, a type of net-laying…
PlaceHeidelberg, Gauteng
… widely regarded as the founder of the town. He established a trading store on the farm; 'Langlaagte'. It was at his … place was EF Sandeman: "Looking down on…
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… eager, fast-talking and brash." In 1960, Nkosi accepted a fellowship to study at Harvard University, and left South Africa on an … London and NET in the…
BiographyFlora Mogano
… Flora is a mother, grandmother, church elder, foster mother to 9 AIDS orphans, and manager of 8 voluntary HIV/AIDS caregivers. She runs a crèche for the poor…
BiographyThembile Benson Ndimba
… Born 1921. Messenger-clerk. Came to active politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the …
BiographyPatricia Jobodwana
… Jobodwana was the first and youngest Black woman to graduate from a South African university. She enrolled at Fort Hare University at the age of 14 for a BSc…
BiographyA. B. Nogaya
… Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid regulations, for which he served two months … A. B…
BiographyHenry “Black Cat” Cele
… on 30 January 1949 in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa. As a member of the Cele family he was referred to by his clan name Ndosi (Bavela KwaMthetwa), or…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… chief of the baSotho, but he is not the central figure. To tell his story would to tell the story of the Builder of a Nation and the heroic efforts he made…
BiographyMark Fish
… soccer career in South Africa, but has departed our shores to pursue his career in England. …
BiographyMichael Lapsley
… of Sacred Mission and then dropped his first name “Allan” to adopt “Michael” as his religious name. …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to urge the repeal of pass laws. Sobukwe led a…
PlacePorterville
… Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good Hope as a refreshment station for the Dutch East India Company. ……
BiographyLouise Latsky
… at the University of Stellenbosch, and was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at this university. She later lectured at … Author and zoologist, first…
BiographyMbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa
… Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance … Bantu Education Boycott. Arrested in 1955 after…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… singularly important decision calling on all Member States to break cultural, diplomatic, economic and military … was also predicated on the determination…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… Ndlambe, who had ignored the attempts of several governors to make the Fish River their temporary boundary line. He occupied a stretch of territory south of…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
… parts of the country on this historic day, 27 April 2007, to hold aloft the banner of freedom that we so fondly cherish … fought so hard to achieve it,…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
… Giants Castle , through rolling Hills and grassland to the thorn veld around Middelrus in the North-West. It is a well-watered landscape, most of it ideally…