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BiographyMichael Sedgwick
… Primary School in Hanover Park and then he proceeded to Oaklands High and Livingstone High. Here he had contact … skits were performed at various youth and…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
… 1986, researchers from Paris who were travelling the world to document traditional arts saw the paintings on Mahlangu’s house. They invited her to create…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century … African facts. A resonant survey of his…
BiographyEdgar Harry Brookes
… was born in England on February 4th,1897 and emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the University of Pretoria…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… a builder and contractor in Bloemfontein.In 1892 he moved to Bloemfontein where eventually he became a wealthy builder … In February 1909 he was a member of…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… for the national liberation movements in South Africa to move towards a more significant challenge to the white minority government. The African National ……
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… studies he was a schoolteacher at Ficksburg from 1914 to 1915. During the 1914 Rebellion Swart was arrested and … the Military Council on a charge of…
Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan
… Conference. Subsequently, he acted as Hon. Secretary to the Muslim Delegation to the Round Table Conferences held in 1930-1931, and from … History Congress,…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
… 1945 he was selected president of the CATA and began to use his popularity among his collegues to build a spirit resistance to the government's African…
BiographyBafana Cyril Dlamini
… nom de guerrre in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union … others under the leadership Joe Modise, as…
BiographySobhuza I
… as king of the Dlamini clan in 1815. He was determined to expand his authority, but was forced to move northwards, away from his home near the Pongola ……
Siva Pillay
… first MK attack in Natal on 16 December 1961. However, due to one of their members (Bruno Mtolo), a police spy, the … 1963. They were accused of acting in…
BiographyFanie Jason
… South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black township of Guguletu in 1960. Jason's interest … He started work as a freelance…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… in a Port Elizabeth police cell he had been chained to a grill at night and left to lie in urine-soaked blankets. He had been stripped naked … claimed that…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… Motor Museum offers visitors a special opportunity to look back at more than 100 years of motoring History with its … the part of the company’s core business…
BiographyWilliam George Ballinger
… 21st of September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British Independent Labour Party as an Advisor to the Industrial and…
Leonora van den Heever
… in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein . She went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria , and started to work at the…
BiographySir. Richard Bourke
… in Dublin, Ireland. During his army career he was promoted to Major-General and proved himself as an excellent and impartial administrator. Bourke was…
Jacob Abraham de Mist
… in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he studied law in Leyden from 1766 to 1768. After graduation he…
BiographyMary Susan Malahlela-Xakana
… by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to have his twin children put to death, as the birth of twins was believed to be a curse. Malahele…
BiographyHamilton Naki
… and after completing primary school he left for Cape Town to look for employment. At the age of fourteen he was hired by the University of Cape Town to…
BiographyKate O’Regan
… for Development Law at UCT. She was also an advisor to the African National Congress (ANC) on land claims legislation, and to the National Manpower…
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
… home region, the Nigerian delta, which gave rise to severe environmental damage. Saro-Wiwa was born on 10 … at Government College Umuahia, he won a…
BiographyJabulani Sam Nhlengethwa
… Forced removals in the area made his family relocate to Kwa-Themba. He spent much of his childhood there as well … musician, helped shape Nhlengethwa’s work…
BiographyDonald James Woods
… Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism. Woods initially supported the idea of … for a parliamentary…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… Institute of Race Relations, sent an 'urgent telegram to Progressive Reform Party mp Rene de Villiers: 'Deeply … ents and children and persuade them to be…
BiographyEnver Hassim
… which played a significant role in the struggle in years to come. Part of the things it did was to provide political study and theory. Hassim also interacted…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Back in 1802, the establishment of a Missionary Village on a … qualities like compassion, charity and a willingness to pay a fair wage. The Khoikhoi took to…
PlaceThe art lover’s summer road trip through the Western Cape
… into a slow-travel pilgrimage, guiding you from the city to the countryside, each stop adding its own brushstroke to your journey. Cape Town Begin in Cape…
BiographyJohannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape
… high school studies at Rebalelaka Secondary. He decided to move to Mamelodi High where he became politically aware. He … National Civic Organisation (SANCO)…