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ArchivePresentation of the Political Report by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the 55th National Conference of the ANC
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat…
BiographyGraeme Pollock
Robert Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended…
George Hobson (55), SA author of mainly animal stories, dies in Cape Town. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
Business Day reports that according to the UN joint agency on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, SA is home to 5,5-million people infected with
BiographyIshwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba
Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba was born on 5 November 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa where he was also raised. His parents emigrated to…
BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…
ArchiveReview: Industrialisation and trade union organisation in South Africa, 1924-55; the rise and fall of the South African Trades and Labour Council: Jon Lewis
BiographyGraeme Craig Smith
Graeme Craig Smith was born to Graeme and Janet Smith on 1 February 1981. Graeme attended King Edward the VII School in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
BiographyZanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg. Muholi’s work…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
‘God Made the White Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa by Mohamed Adhikari (South African Historical Journal, 55), 2006
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most dynamic literary…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
1994: South Africa's first non racial, democratic electionsSouth Africa’s democratic system was endorsed by voters drawn from across the country’s racial…
BiographyNongqawuse
History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
Counting began two days after the first ever democratic elections in South Africa. Nearly 20 million people participated in South Africa’s first democratic…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
Nokukhanya Luthuli, maiden name Bhengu, (also known as MaBhengu) was the wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli. Although she never became as public a figure as her…
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell)…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
In September 1993, the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to manage South Africa’s…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
In a meeting between the Soweto People's Delegation (SPD) and,and the Transvaal Provincial Administration an agreement was reached bringing to an end a five…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…