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ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… to today, when she continues to promote equality in South Africa. She does this through both as a teacher and a member … 1955 a group of six White women…
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
Heinrich Egersdorfer was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1853. He trained in lithography in Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh…
BiographyIsaac Bokala
… Naidoo, P. (2006) 156 Hands that built South Africa. Published by the author. p. 40-42 …
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… Sechaba, Comrades Against Apartheid p. 39|History of South Africa: Segregation Gail M. Gerhart, Teresa Barnes, Antony …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back … students led an international…
BiographyElize Botha
Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp, West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She enrolled at the University of…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with … the hands of the Limbas and the Jalungas." [2] Across West Africa,…
The Afrikaner Bond
… that was effectively the first political party in South Africa, was founded in 1880 in the Cape Colony , which had … the Bond as a body that would prevent …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… Natal (Pietermaritzburg, 1965); T. R. H. Davenport, South Africa: A Modern History (Johannesburg, 1977); C. W. de Kiewiet, A History of South Africa, Social…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… to Challenge: A Documentary History of Politics in South Africa 1882-1964, Vol. 4 Political profiles 1882-1964 , … (2002). Truth & Reconciliation Commission…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
Walton Zacharias Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the African National Congress (ANC) and for…
BiographyMargaret Gazo
Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918. She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the…
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… The Year of Unity and Renewal to Defend and Advance South Africa's Democratic Gains January 8th, 2021 - The Year of … 8th, 2019 - The Year of United Action…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … of adventuristic capital. There is again a scramble for Africa, and both the…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… discussions that would ultimately shape politics in South Africa for many years to come. After the annexation of the …
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
Johannes Jane Tane Kekana was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… massacre “signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa.” 28 March, The ANC calls for a nation-wide strike in … moral stand against apartheid and…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… and received with horror from every quarter. South Africa had already been harshly criticised for its apartheid … and diplomatic support for sanctions…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… One of the reasons linked to colonial expansion in Africa and Asia was trade and the search for new markets. The … parts of the world. For instance it is…
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…
BiographyPeter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the…
The Atlantic slave trade
… out by disease and conflict, so the colonisers turned to Africa to provide cheap labour in the form of slaves. The first shipment of slaves from West Africa…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… us contextualise the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa in the 1970s. Also, it is impossible to understand what happened in South Africa (the …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… the Chairperson. This was the first organisation in South Africa in which Indians and Africans formed a common … date 1954 Banned by the Nationalist…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… This article traces the major segregation laws in South Africa that acted as precedent for the 1954 Native … the most significant African urban settlement in…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… favour of Jan Smuts. Upon becoming Prime Minister of South Africa, Smuts declared South Africa officially at war with Germany and the Axis powers. … as…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… Moreover, he was tipped to succeed John Vorster as South Africa's Prime Minister. However, the Muldergate scandal … press was interested in spreading bad…