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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
… (Leeukop Prison) to Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town to meet Mandela. Nothing has ever been disclosed about …
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… of the high court sitting in Vereeniging, a riverside town near the famous Vaal townships of Sharpeville and …
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… the Sea and the Harbour is still the point of gravity in Town for fishing and boating. If you need a craftsman on the … if not a challenge in many cases. “…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… but they lacked fresh water. The best alternatives were Simons Town, Bay and Hout Bay The problem being- they were …
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… People of the Western Cape, A History for Schools . Cape Town, Juta, 2003. Beinart, William and Saul Dubow (eds.). … Vivian; Elizabeth van Heyningen and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… Two others were killed, and 49 were wounded in Langa, Cape Town. The Sharpeville massacre “signalled the start of armed … The ANC opens its membership to…
Vusi Mahlasela
Vusimuzi Sidney Mahlasela ka Zwane was born in Mamelodi in 1965. His grandmother ran a shebeen from behind their home. He grew up listening to people singing…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… Two others were killed, and 49 were wounded in Langa, Cape Town. The Sharpeville massacre “signalled the start of armed … The ANC opens its membership to…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… was living under banning orders in Ginsburg, King Williams Town. In October 1977, BCP was banned and Xundu was detained …
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… his return to South Africa in 1976, to his parish in Cape Town's Bellville South. Boesak increased his political … helped launch the UDF at Mitchells Plain…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… Government and an Indian Government delegation in Cape Town. 1927 Dadoo returns to Krugersdorp at the age of 18. … The Indian community hosts a reception at…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… pp.285-291| Smith, C, (1997), Robben Island , (Cape Town), pp.106-107| Johnson, S (1989), South Africa: No …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Act No. 44 of 1950 Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1970 31/12/1974 Cape Town Abrahams, Elizabeth Act No. 44 of 1950 Sec. 9 (1) 28 … organisation for black trade unions …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… record breaking numbers during their performances at Cape Town and Johannesburg in an area called Sophiatown, which was … a paragraph without mentioning New…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… South African Communist Party (SACP ), and Ray Alexander Simons explored the idea of a women’s federation that would …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… Iziko, South African National Art Museum, Cape Town 2007: Invoice, Standard Bank Art Museum, Johannesburg … Photographs collective exhibition, Area Gallery,…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the leading … who formed the Ovamboland People’s Congress …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… History of South Africa (Pretoria, 1977); H. J. and R. E. Simons, Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850-1950 … of the South African Indian Question, 1860…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the South African Communist Party Cape Town, 28 July 1996
… interest. Nat Bregman, Michael Harmel, Bram Fischer, Jack Simons, Ruth First and Joe Slovo - privileged and capable of … 75th anniversary of the South…
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town, 9.00am-12.00pm Taylor: What we’re doing, I mean these … of Sociology, Edward Bateson, at the…
BiographyNorman Levy
… the PRC’s Deputy Chairman. At this time he moved to Cape Town, where he became Professor Extraordinary at the School …
ArchiveKenneth Alexander archive
… art work of Kenneth Alexander and his writings on Simon's Town. Much of his work is on display at Art in Athlone, which …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943] Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The … Conference held at Banqueting Hall, City…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… Democratic Front was launched at Mitchells Plain in Cape Town. 1984 8 January 1984 Max du Preez, together with a … 16 members of the ANC ( Alfred Nzo , Thabo…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… of our struggle as Charlotte Maxeke, Margaret Mncadi, Ray Simons, Ida Ntwana, Francis Baard, Helen Joseph, Lilian … on the achievements of heroines such as…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Two others were killed, and 49 were wounded in Langa, Cape Town. The Sharpeville massacre “signalled the turn to armed … The ANC opens its membership to…
ArticleKey sites
… fruit and vegetable hawkers sold their produce. The Durban Town Council in the 1890s attempted to close down this market … leased or bought plots of land on…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and … on the part of some of us, though Jack and Ray…