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BiographyPeter Hain
… Party activists,were banned in 1964,he acted as a liaison to facilitate their political work.In 1966 his family emigrated to Britain where he earned degrees…
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli
… business.He attended high school in Kroonstad ,then moved to Johannesburg in the mid1940s,living in Alexander and later … late 1983,then as head of the ANC's…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
… life in Centecow. Kohler used some of these drawings to illustrate his ethnographic and medical publications. In … Mariannhill where he was commissioned by…
BiographyOhm Collins Chabane
… when he joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) . Chabane also went to Angola for military training in 1980, and began work … arrested by the Security Police in 1984,…
BiographyDr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
… farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's second-in-command in the Natal African … the government issued a banning order…
BiographyMiriam Tlali
… ( Gauteng ). She grew up in Sophiatown . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… initially into business as an accountant, he later changed to law and served his articles in Durban with J.N. Singh. In … Jordan Ngubane and others in the…
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he…
BiographyVera Ponnen
… Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg and while there she…
BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
… in South Africa with his father in 1902. He returned to study in London in 1911. Upon his return he briefly stayed in Natal before moving to the Eastern…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
… with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be shattered by the declaration of her beloved birth-place … black performers found it…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… because of his political activism, and left the country to go into exile in Lesotho in 1980, where he completed his … in Political Science and Economics at…
BiographyMagnus Malan
… of Pretoria. From a young age, he had aspirations to join the military and in 1973 he was appointed as chief of … the South African Defense Force, becoming…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: ANC Statement on Policy Conference state of readiness, 25 June 2012
… today and will be followed by the Presidential Banquet, to be addressed by President Zuma starting at 19h30 tonight, … attainment of a better life for all…
Make your statement
… Commission poster. Artwork of people talking and thinking back about past history. List of TRC offices and telephone numbers to contact to tell your story. …
Sipho Philip Mutsi
… Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was arrested with connection to riots in the Odendaalrus area…
Molatodi Thomas Lehupela
… He attended Penyang Primary School and was forced to quit at grade six due to financial constraints. At the age of seven, Lehupela had … with making…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… from a mining and agricultural economy (before the war) to a flourishing industrial economy with the development of … group of young, more assertive black…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a … is situated in an old Cape-Dutch style…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… millions of rands as a result of the people not going to work. Thus they thought of immediately breaking the … alliance. They immediately called on workers…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… Southern Methodist University partnership project In order to stand up straight, we as humans require a backbone. … well spent. Ninety five years that will…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link its destiny with that of the African majority, in … racism, in promoting fearless and…
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
… and preference for Test cricket, Steyn made the decision to retire in order to prolong his playing career in the One Day International … 439 wickets in 93…
BiographyAllina Ndebele
… and Ulla Gowenius, Swedish Missionaries who had been sent to South Africa to start a weaving workshop. She also assisted them as an … formal studies. The…
BiographyWilliam Philip Schreiner
… Attorney General by Cecil John Rhodes , but was forced to resign after the failed Jameson Raid in 1896. He returned to Parliament in 1898 and became Prime…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… in Pretoria . He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial … months as a visiting student. In 1975…
BiographyAndrew Michael Boraine
… Pinelands. He attended Kearsney College, Natal from 1972 to 1974, and the Diocesan College (Bishops) from 1975 to 1976.In the 1980s he became the underground…
BiographyAidan Walsh
… 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to 1957. Between 1959 and 1966 he…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… without receiving a degree. In 1948, she moved to Johannesburg where she lived most of her life. Gordimer … and early 20th-century fiction, and later would…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s … for two years as an articled clerk and was…