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BiographyNosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
… (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) member. She was a member of the ANC for more than 30 years. A dedicated educator, Ntwanambi was a founding member of…
New tactics in the revolt
… of the labour force away from work, the SSRC was forced on to the defensive. There were large-scale arrests, and the … that opposed their apartheid plans…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
… in the Eastern Cape. Employed as factory worker and as a clerk, he joined the Youth League in New Brighton location in Port Elizabeth and in the mid-1950s he…
BiographyS. S. Tema
… S. S. Tema was a Dutch Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical … National-minded Bloc, led by Selope Thema . As a…
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
… Charles Makhohliso was born in 1918. As a trade unionist he was responsible for organising better … of the African National Congress (ANC) , Makhohliso had…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… the fact that the people of the Eastern Cape decided to honour this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is indeed a singular…
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… these ' Mass Democratic Movement Organizations ' marched to Bisho, the then Capital of the ‘Independent’ or Bantustan … Cape Government Offices (including…
PlaceKokstad
… charitable foundation, Oprah’s Angel Network , designed a school for Kokstad's Shayamoya Township. Kokstad lies surrounded by mountains in a predominantly…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… the power of the Xhosa chiefs and the Xhosa nation as a cohesive force. There was little resistance to setting up these villages under the regional authority…
PlacePort Nolloth, Namaqualand Northern Cape
… What today is essentially a fishing village, Port Nolloth lies on the bay known by the … before he and his ship were blown off course and out to sea for…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated … responsible for the abduction and killing. On 27 August, a petrol bomb was thrown at…
Restrictions on the media
… A reflection on journalism There is nothing, amid South … radio and television. Particularly as it was possible to establish that the ageing prisoner had not…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… Adams College is a Public School situated in Adams Mission which is 8 km … an impressive list of former students who have gone on to become icons in the…
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
… movements in the country, and on the African continent. A key feature of the ANC over the 90 years has been the … positions. This derives from an unswerving…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape with 90 soldiers to establish a refreshment station for the Dutch East India Company. … institutions and places from…
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… Mofokeng’s initial experiences with photography were as a teen when one of his sisters gave him his first … he began his career as a street photographer and…
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
… the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early age and received no … university courses through private…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
… was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an … in America. he later resigned as…
BiographyEllen Lambert
… the United Democratic front (UDF) , in which she also led a number of campaigns against the tri-cameral system of … Park, Actoville, and Eldorado Park …
BiographyThe Taung Child
… In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. … Man in 1912 supported this view – until…
BiographyFlorence Matomela
… Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by … new influx control regulations in…
BiographyNomkhosi Mary Mini
… activist and first African National Congress (ANC) member to be executed by the apartheid state. Nomkhosi Mary Mini was born into a politically active…
BiographyAndrew Tshabangu
… (now Gauteng), South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them at the Institute of … residency at the Gasworks Art Studio,…
BiographyMark Shope
… the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early age and received no … university courses through private…
PlaceOld Durban Brook Street Cemetery
… Street Cemetery, lying in its far Western corner, closest to Berea Station. What makes it so interesting, besides its … of the oldest Cemeteries in the City,…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… unemployment, taxi disputes and poverty still remain to be, major challenges. But they’re tackling them with the … but the IFP’s ardent nationalism soon…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
… Founded as a Missionary Station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria and as a centre ……
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
… Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got … variously classified as boeremusiek or jazz, and he made a name for himself…
BiographyChristopher Nceba Faku
… in Alice. He completed his matric in 1978 while serving a thirteen years’ prison term on Robben Island . Following … II of Britain whilst she was on her…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Webster
… March 1942 and educated at Selborne College. He obtained a BA Honours degree and University Education Diploma from … Philosophy and Economics from Oxford…