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BiographyBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala
… Macala was born on 21 April 1937 in Bloemfontein. As a young boy Macala tended cattle on a farm in the Orange Free State and passed the time drawing … Bill…
BiographyMalesella Benjamin Moloise
… Benjamin Moloise was born in 1955 in Alexandra. he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid … Central Prison for his supposed role in…
BiographySimon Tyeku
… African National Congress in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in 1904 and worked in his early…
BiographyMichael Ngweyi
… supported his sister’s four children. According to his wife, Nosihle Ngweyi, “My husband was the only person who was employed in our family. He thus played a…
BiographySitelega Meric Gadlela
… children, including 5 who are still in school. According to his wife, Betty Gadlela, “My husband came from a big, poor family. He supported his 11 children,…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… Africana Museum . It is the ideal setting through which to experience the history of Uitenhage. The Old Railway … in 1875 which is reputed as one of the…
BiographyDaniel R Koza
… the union's top position and growing its membership to about 10,000 in the early 1940s.Koza mastered the … trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was…
BiographyDebi Singh
… He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation … instrumental in bringing Yusuf Dadoo and …
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Founded in 1869 by American … establishment of its kind in southern…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… , Colesberg , Richmond & Hanover,( it is no secret as to where the name "Middelburg" came from!) It falls under the … War . The History of Grootfontein dates…
PlaceBallito, Dolphin Coast- KZN
… of KwaZulu Natal's famous 'Green & Gold' and is flanked to the East by golden Beaches and the warm waters of the … of these waters suggest that they are…
PlaceZoar, Western Cape
… It is difficult to talk about Zoar or Amalienstein separately, so interwoven … next door. Both Missions received substantial funding from a Baroness Amalie…
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon's previous 'Jesus' comments
… the US, Beatles records and memorabilia were burned, radio stations refused to play their songs and concerts were cancelled. In apartheid … of Heartbreak),…
BiographyObie Oberholzer
… at Clapham High School, Pretoria. In 1970 he obtained a Diploma in Graphic Design, University of Stellenbosch, a German National Diploma in Photography in…
BiographyMafolisi Mabiya
… He left behind his young wife and two children, including a new-born baby. He was also financially supporting his mother and niece at the time of his death…
Khela Ngobese
… Ngobese was born in 1960 in KwaMashu but he later moved to Cator Manor Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He … mother continually encouraged the young…
BiographySibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
… wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977, Mbongwa commanded a number of units in KwaZulu-Natal. These units included the … he famously subpoenaed then…
BiographyMartin Lutuli
… was the founder of the Natal Native Congress He was a farmer and wagon maker, and in the 1880s he acted as secretary to Dinuzulu , the Zulu paramount chief…
BiographyColonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
… wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977, Mbongwa commanded a number of units in KwaZulu-Natal. These units included the … he famously subpoenaed then…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
… Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of … at Lovedale and also studied printing…
BiographyDumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula
… matric in 1978 at Isibonelo High School in KwaMashu. He is a graphic artist who studied at Fort Hare University and obtained a BA(FA) (1982) from that…
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
… the first activists of the African National Congress (ANC) to die as a guerrilla fighter. He ran a gymnasium in the Western Native Township in Johannesburg …
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment seekers away from … high Schools and one tertiary College;…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
… gentle sound of waves, the Woodstock coastline thrived as a vibrant beach until the mid-1960s. Its soft, sandy shores stretched invitingly towards Milnerton …
PlaceSandton, Johannesburg
… Sandton Executive Suites is proud to present modern self-catering apartments in the heart of … class Gautrain Station. Sandton Executive Suites offers a…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… of 2015, after Chumani Maxwele of the movement defiled a Rhodes statue on the Upper Campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT) with faeces. Instead of…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… Dutch East India Company (VOC) settlement at the Cape only a small number of personal slaves had reached the Cape, … the Commander of the settlement, had…
BiographyAndrew Clement Verster
… Andrew Vester was born in Johannesburg in 1937. He obtained a National Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell … He taught at Fine Art institutions in…
BiographyDr. Phuthuma Seoka
… In 1953 he established 'Seoka's Twin 'Products' and a herbalist trade in patent medicines and remedies. In 1966 he returned to Molototsi near Duiwelskloof…
BiographyHein du Plessis
… at Sentraal High School, Bloemfontein. He studied for a National Diploma in Photography at the Vaal Triangle … part time junior lecturer at the UFS before he…