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Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… Mandla Langa was born in apartheid South Africa in 1950. His family, friends, and his own life were … endangered, and punished all who were not White in…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… The township is being celebrated by the youth of South Africa in Kwaito music, this is interesting when one … are learning to write more about life in the…
BiographyMike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded the Boycott…
BiographyEllen Lambert
Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province. She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of 19 in…
Grade 4 Archive
… place and the people around them. In a country like South Africa many people have learned from stories told to them. … culture, identity and World Heritage…
BiographyEnos Molapo Makhubedu
Enos Molapo Makhubedu was born at Eersterus, near Pretoria in 1938. He grew up in Pilgrim’s Rest where he completed his higher primary school studies in 1951…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… Indians, residentially and commercially, in South Africa. July 1925 Dr Daniel François Malan , Minister of … Whites in India as were imposed on Indians in…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… declared that a further acquisition of arms by South Africa would be a threat to international peace. An … the highest proportion ever gained by one party in…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa, Cape Town: HSRC Press, pp 43-44, (Commissioned by the … by settlers against the indigenous…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… Province, and Botswana. The first pottery in South Africa associated with the Sotho is called Icon and dates to … housed 10 000 people or more. Early…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… the backbone for human rights, amongst blacks, in South Africa. Ruth Robb went by her middle name, Noel, and died at … policies, against the Black South…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… they spread the virus to many countries, including South Africa, where it made its appearance in September 1918. By … to the exact source of infection and…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The festival aims to bring socially engaged … acts. Birthed in 2008 out of the vision of The…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient … speakers originally occupied a large part of…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number of workers’ strikes … Namibia lying on one of the least…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… of official structures for the visual arts in South Africa displaced many of the earlier roles and functions of … and appreciation of the visual and plastic…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… to forum the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa (ICU). The aim is “ Bring together all classes of … for the Industrial and Commercial Workers…
Afrikaner
… from Western Europeans who settled on the southern tip of Africa during the middle of the 17th century. Portuguese … and the Portuguese conveyed a biased…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… commandos, like this group manning a roadblock ©Museum Africa In the early days of mining no Africans possessed the … urging that a provisional government…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… onslaught, the story went, was the threat posed to South Africa (and indeed to the Western world) by the Soviet Union's designs on the strategic value of…
Liberation organisations
… act against the banned liberation movements within South Africa, as well as in Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Angola, South West Africa (Namibia) and…
Alexander Macaulay Jabavu
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ 1964. …
BiographyAbednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
Born in Natal in 1931, he studied at Adams College and Ohlange Institute, where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a Durban textile plant,…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…
BiographyClarence Mlami Makwetu
Clarence Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… "On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can … This magazine is committed to the liberation of South Africa, and the…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, democratic state founded on the … d. i. all…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, … work on Plaatje’s book, Sol Plaatje…
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…