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ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the major liberation … movement which fought for…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… (descendants of the Dutch who migrated to South Africa in the 1830s) [vii] and also led the Battle of Blood … and 1994 in the area that is today north east…
BiographyStella Madge Damos
Born in 1930, Damos was a trade unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she organised a protest meeting and was charged with…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… 1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High … 1963 Worked as a freelance photographer in South Africa until 1966…
ArticleThe Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo
… It is to be awarded for friendship shown to South Africa. It is therefore an order of peace, co-operation and … This was a modest start to bring the friends…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… father of John Dube dies 1887-1888 John Dube leaves South Africa to study at Oberlin College in the USA. Dube works in … Things Found There. 1892 Dube is…
BiographyZacharia Solly Shoke
Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township,…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
Govan Mbeki (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… who helped establish the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939 First becomes a member of the Young Left … having been lifted, First and her family…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg … the Johannesburg District of the…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… as critical of racial discrimination, during which period Africa was colonized. The Second World War highlighted the … for decolonization. It was during this…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
… gave tremendous momentum to the armed struggle in South Africa. Jacob Zuma recalls that when Angola and Mozambique … 1975 up to the first half of 1976, many…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… Mose and Sosha were posted to other areas of South Africa to ply their deadly trade while Mbuso Enoch Shabalala … Bell T. & Ntsebeza D. B. (2001). Unfinished…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… in Edinburgh University in 1936. On his return to South Africa, he started his medical practice amidst the … to his fellow Indians that "our place in a free…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the … tactics. Sharpeville shortly after the shootings…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… other organizations to bring an end to apartheid in South Africa, the United Democratic Front (UDF) brought rallies and mass protest groups to the forefront…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Sufi order, an unorthodox Islamic cult, arrives in South Africa as an indentured labourer. 1861 March, The town … Cathedral. Hajee Mahomed A Motala comes to…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… General at the first ANC conference to be held in South Africa since the party was banned. 1993 Zuma becomes involved … 1999 Zuma is appointed as Deputy…
BiographyM. N. Bhola
M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province. She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s…
BiographyPetrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers
Fanie de Villiers was born on the 13th October 1964 in Vereeniging. In 1985 he started playing for the Northern Transvaal cricket team and in the 1992/93…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… century. Florence Ortlepp was born and grew up in South Africa, met and married Lionel Phillips on the Kimberley … 1910, Florence spent more time in Britain…
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
… Mail & Guardian - Formerly left liberal organ of South Africa. Currently moderately critical of the government. … Zoutnet - Daily News for the north…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events, from the banning of … of the armed struggle, the…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… a major "advancement" in the visual arts in colonial South Africa, is today largely forgotten by the offical art … entitled: A Protest on behalf of the…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… operations from these countries. On 16 March 1984, South Africa and Mozambique signed the Nkomati Accord , whereby … into these negotiations under tremendous…