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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…
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…
”India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. Naicker On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
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…
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…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban, and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…
Fictional Cape Town
… South Africa, thanks to the 2010 World Cup, has been topical … football story, but an unusual reportage located in South Africa's most popular holiday…
Other organisations related to the ANC
… Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) South African …
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… dissatisfied with the pay offered. The Cape Corps in East Africa The First Battalion of the Cape Corps embarked for East Africa on 9 February 1916 on board…
ArticleTswana
… beliefs: About 4 million Tswana people live in southern Africa; 3 million in South Africa and 1 million in the nation of Botswana. In South Africa, many…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… he relinquished his position as High Commissioner of South Africa. The Asiatic Bazaar comes into existence. Paul Kruger … leaves Pretoria. 31 May, Birth of…
BiographySam Tambani
Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni Jack…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… bloodless coup, thereby ending Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Thus, Angola attained official independence on 11 … around 481,226 square miles along the…
Buy the Insurrection Ensemble's music
… social and political concerns between India and South Africa. The artists are well-known musicians, composers and … Cozens, Tina Schouw and Malika Ndlovu…
Provincial government and symbols
… places section of the SAHO site, and read about the South Africa’s nine provinces. Also visit SAHO feature on national … 2. Which pieces on the map are…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… the Freedom Charter, advocating for a non racial South Africa, entered the political discourse. Early in the 1980s, … than apartheid as the main oppressing…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… a message, which is sent to all his supporters in South Africa. The SACP holds its Central Committee meeting in … Ibrahim and sisters, Amina and Zuleika…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… at once defining and confining. From then on in South Africa, racial identity became a burden or a boon, depending … to occupy were translated as not being…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… in its role as peacemaker must help the people of South Africa to avoid needless suffering and bloodshed ..." and he … The International Conference on…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… Hampstead Heath before connecting with a friend from South Africa who is involved in the local Communist Party. Through … of short stories that he had…
Julian Goldswain
… established portrait & documentary photographer in South Africa. Since 1998, his work has been exhibited extensively in South Africa, Germany and the USA…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… to Messina completed. 1910 31 May, Union of South Africa declared 1912 Founding of the African National … Self-Government 1961 Declaration of the Republic…
BiographyWycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi
President of the All African Convention (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later…
BiographyDebi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… the Johannesburg Branch of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) , and the … June 12, Professor Z. K. Matthews…
Journals
… now regarded as a dynamic discipline, in apartheid South Africa it tended to be associated with Nationalist … continue publishing the journal. The University…