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BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… by Committee of Women, a predecessor of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) to Copenhagen for an … In 1961 Asa married Yusuf who had followed her…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
… schools and later studied law through the University of South Africa. When Make was still a student in high school, he … Congress (PAC) representative, and…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… especially after the Tsar's decision to enter the First World War. The Russian army was ill prepared and the war effort … Gregorian calendar that the West…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… “Israelites”. Mgijima predicts that the end of the world will take place on Christmas Day. As a result the … in the distance. “The thunder symbolised a…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
… was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South African Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II and, on returning…
BiographyT W Thibedi
… Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the … to Roux, for some years the only African Communist in…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… they founded Ohrigstad, near the border of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique). In 1846, he returned to the … demands. Britain was determined to create a…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… decline shortly thereafter. Inactive, if not dead in South Africa during the 1960s and beyond, both sections seem … it through its period of activity, were…
BiographyTopsy Madaka
… in anti government student activities under the South African Student Movement (SASM). In 1978 his family … SASM was banned, he became a member of the…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… period – after that, examinations and curriculums in South Africa were segregated by race. During this period in Cape … Wyk was also active in the newly…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… of the four colonies that would later make up the Union of South Africa , but when Henry Bartle Frere was made governor of the … He presided over the period…
BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
… she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom Stanton CR, in South Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She worked at the … prison. The arrest aroused…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa. He also discovered for Europe the south-east trade winds and the westerlies to the west and ……
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention and banning orders, … for activities with the ANC. 22-26 August,…
BiographyGreg Marinovich
… people live under political extremis. After returning to South Africa, he got a job as a guide with a hiking and safari … concentrate on writing a non…
BiographyJames Matthews
… stories, Matthews explored the issues, dilemmas and the world of the working class in Cape Town and the townships, … writing powerfully articulated the…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… forced removal. In late 1981 Weinberg was recruited by the South African exiled artists of the MEDU collective in … Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
… summer of 1852–3 and various factions looked towards civil war as an opportunity to gain cattle. As the situation … 1856 Mpande granted Mbuyazi a large tract…
BiographyJillian Edelstein
… Jillian Edelstein was born and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she … 2002 she has been working on a new book which…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… that she made to the constitutional transformation of South Africa. It is important to remember that when Margaret … the Zulus; and my people, the Afrikaners…
BiographySadie Forman
… a Yiddish poet and writer, emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa in 1913. In 1952, Forman married Lionel Forman , a … time, she would not get another…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… office and the Executive Council. During the Anglo-Zulu War Beaumont served as District Commandant of the Division of … of Railway Employees three years…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… governments had sole control over the postal system. The South African postal system began in 1781, mail workers in … of The Post Office’s electronic signing…
BiographySteve Hilton-Barber
… well as that around the depiction of the male nude in the South African press and issues of the relation of power … her Bushveld", Month of Photography, Cape…
BiographyZanele Muholi
… for its radical emphasis on marginalized communities in South Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, and the … feminists, LGBTQI activists, and…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… Fellow South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join … a university executive, a global public servant at the World Bank and now an active…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… was picked up at his home in Cala by a unit involving South African Police member Mbuso Enoch Shabalala, Transkei … Ntsebeza was based, and together they…
BiographyTerry Bell
… Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, … in per capita terms, the largest such…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… from the 1960s to 1990? Background and focus The Second World War had been fought to attain democracy but it did not … started to emerge. The section on…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
… off among communists both inside and outside the socialist world. For our part, we firmly believe in the future of … and damaging interventions in the…