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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…
Other organisations related to the ANC
… Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) South African …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
”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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Journals
… now regarded as a dynamic discipline, in apartheid South Africa it tended to be associated with Nationalist … continue publishing the journal. The University…
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…
BiographyThozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta
Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High School in…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Union that was set up by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1929 At the second SA federation of Trade … Lenin School in Moscow. 1933 Kotane arrives…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… TAKING NOTE of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993 as amended; and TAKING NOTE of the … provisions of the Constitution of the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… including those situated in the heart of urban white South Africa. In response, the Apartheid government intensified its … between the ANC in exile and its…
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
… The women's struggle in South Africa …