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BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
Col Jonathan Ngwenya received his basic military training as APLA activist in Conakry, Guinea in 1977. He completed his Instructor Course at Kwame Nkrumah…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… to find a sea-route to India around the south coast of Africa, reach the coast of Guinea, West Africa. 1483 Diogo Cão, a navigator acting under the ……
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… Black Consciousness Movement rose to prominence in South Africa in the 1970s and forms one of Gordimer’s central … white liberalism which, in the particular…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4. Political Profiles 1882| SADET, (2004). The Road to Democracy in South Africa…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa The Durban area is probably best known for the … languages originated in the Nigeria/Cameroon area of West Africa. Some early…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… that students were aware of the racist politics of South Africa and attempts by the government to reproduce these … 16 uprising . 1976 - June 16 and Youth…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African sub continent, it is Angola … the Boer…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' … of The Soul of a Nation - Constitution…
ArticleXhosa
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into four … were the ancestors of the Nguni migrated…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… the national consciousness. A person who was born in South Africa, for instance, has both a national South African … heritage too, because they were born on…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… about Pretoria, the administrative capital city of South Africa. Firstly it is important to know where Pretoria is in … in the city Pretoria is one of the…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… The passive resistance campaigns led by MK Gandhi in South Africa had huge consequences not only for the history of the … for the rights of a small group of…
Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo
Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo was born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He attended school at Saint Angsgurs Primary School in 1946 and matriculated in 1954 from the…
BiographyAnna Victoria Mangena
She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal, probably between 1885 and…
BiographyLionel Davis
Lionel Bazil Davis was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage…
BiographyRichard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane
Richard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane was born on 27 August 1957 in Tladi, Soweto. Molokoane became politically active during the student uprising of 1976, and…
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA and the … serves as the Chairman of the…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… from grace of the then President of the Republic of South Africa (RSA), Thabo Mbeki . Mbeki had been running for the … despite having served his two terms as…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… convention which would be representative of all South Africa’s inhabitants, whose task it would be “to draw up a blueprint for a free South Africa of the…
BiographyEmile Maurice
Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, curator, author educator and Nation builder. He received an Advanced Diploma…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… machine installed in the exhibition space at Museum Africa - became an iconic piece in the Biennale for … Biennale highlighted that the art establishment in…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as … regard. [5] The majority of Afrikaans…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together … from the discovery of the truth about racism…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… outside the bounds of institutional life in South Africa; it focused on an area of experience- travelling to … short stories, graphics and photography from…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… lay the groundwork for changes that are to come in South Africa. [viii] 1991 With the unbanning of the ANC Loots returns to South Africa, where he is elected…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… The Johannesburg branch of the Communist Party of South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Transvaal … Tambo opened the first Black legal…