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BiographySitelega Meric Gadlela
… Dvokolwako in Swaziland. He began working for Lonmin in 1989 and was with the company for 23 years. Mr Gadlela was …
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1990-1999 1990 23 July, Billy Nair was detained following police allegations of an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) plot, code-named…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
1920 - 1929 1921 February, Gandhi: Second week, (Bardoli). Five days' fast in connection with Chauri Chaura incident. November 9-13, Gandhi: (Bombay)…
BiographySir. Julius Jeppe
Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870,…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
1902 At the cessation of hostilities, Sir Alfred Milner, the former British High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape and now administrator of the two…
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and Queen Johanna Selepi, was born on…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… instead of the personal exacerbated polarizations. In 1989 Albie Sachs published a paper called Preparing Ourselves …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
1920 February, The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, headed by Sir Johannes Lange, is appointed to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
… misusing company time, and decided to dismiss him in May 1989. This signaled a turning point in Mudzunga’s career as …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After he became embroiled in general student dissatisfaction with boarding…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
1910 The establishment of the Union of South Africa consolidates white rule over the territories that came to be known as South Africa. The Union is founded…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
1930 - 1939 1930 May 4-5, Gandhi: At 12.45 a.m., arrested at Karadi, a village near Dandi where Gandhi had broken Salt law on March 5, by the British…
Press Statement by Oliver Tambo concerning the five-year plan presented by FW De Klerk to the National Party Conference, 30 June 1989
… by President-elect F.W. de Klerk yesterday, 29th June, 1989, is a shocking insult to the people of South Africa. The … by FW De Klerk to the National Party…
BiographyRebecca Malope
Rebecca Malope was born in 1968 in Lekazi near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. Beyond the fact that she did not progress that far in her education, little is known…
BiographyNosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi was born on 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu (Western Cape). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s…
BiographyDr. Phuthuma Seoka
Dr Phuthuma (also documented as Phutuma and Phatuma) Seoka was born in 1922 in Modjadji near Duiwelskloof, Lebowa. Seoka left school in Standard VI and spent…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July 1962 in District Six, Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
Indian South Africans timeline 1900-1909 1900 The East London Mayor's Minute for 1899-1900 states that 1,000 refugees from war in the Transvaal and the…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
The first white inhabitantsBetween 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and…
Dadoo timeline 1927-1969
BiographyJeremy Vearey
Jeremy Vearey was born in 1963 in Elsies River. He describes the area as a ‘different Elsies River’ than today as it was only around 50% built houses. It was a…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… online. Accessed on 10 September 2020-09-10 Bizos, G. (1989). Memoirs of George Bizos from Aluka, online. Available …
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957,…
BiographySatyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated at St Oswald's School…
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… [Accessed 16 April 2009]|Sue Williamson. (1989). Resistance and Art in South Africa. Cape Town: David …
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
King Kong: An African Jazz, was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical chronicles the rise and fall of…
BiographyWangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. Maathai is internationally renowned for her unrelenting efforts in…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
One of the most important developments in South Africa in this period was the formation of the Pact Government in which the push for independence from Britain…