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BiographyMartha Mohlakoane
Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the African National Congress in 1939…
BiographySiphiwo Maxwell “Congress” Mthimkhulu
… Philips D, South Africa The Truth & Reconciliation Commission (part 3) from …
BiographyThambi Naransamy Naidoo
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ 1964 . …
ArticleAfrapix
… school of documentary photography in apartheid South Africa. The formation of Afrapix coincided with the increase … policy and joint projects. Afrapix’s…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in Church … in a range of various systematic bombings [v] across South Africa during the years…
BiographyLebo Mathosa
Lebo Mathosa was born in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to Johannesburg…
BiographyAmina Desai
… South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… 1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… and trading segregation for Indians throughout South Africa. The Natives (Urban Areas) Act No 21 of 1923 The … Luli Callinicos Property Rights and Rent…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th … of the colonial and later racial capitalism in South Africa. Passes were used to…
ArticleBolt (1970-1975)
… DISA Archive Copyright: Digital Innovation South Africa …
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 … This year, 2014, marks 20 years of democracy in South Africa, coinciding with the fifth…
Thupelo (1985)
… on a similar approach of the artists run workshop. South Africa had gone into a state of emergency and facilities and … current the socio-political climate…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political … to ‘draw up a Freedom Charter for the…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… s 15 of the Representation between the Republic of South Africa and self-governing Territories Act No 46 of 1959. The … to a total of 13, six per cent of the…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Race in general and the so-called racial question in South Africa. Finally, I hope to outline briefly our ultimate … We are being wooed internationally at a…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… Race in general and the so-called racial question in South Africa. Finally, I hope to outline briefly our ultimate … We are being wooed internationally at a…
BiographyMarthinus Wessel Pretorius
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was born in September 17, 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… the Progressive Party saw their ideals realized in South Africa's interim Constitution. In the 1961 election, only … the process of negotiating a peaceful…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… by great strife among the black communities in Southern Africa. This turmoil also changed the patterns of settlement … of the Pretoria area The legislative…
BiographyJansie Lourens
After Barbara Hogan, Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials. Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus, were found…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in the Cape, he…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… in areas other than those set aside for them. The South Africa Act, 1909 (Sections 26, 35, 44, 147 and 151) leaves … Act. The Immigrants Regulation Act of…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… extended to the disenfranchised population groups in South Africa, before they are expected to support and participate … , described as ‘the premier union…
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a period on the Cape…
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… the way they were portrayed within the media. Within South Africa, there is a thriving cartoonist community who take it … worked hard to establish a free and…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… too much and they settled deep in the hinterland of South Africa dispossessing the original inhabitants of their land … European occupation of what is now…
Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)
Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis) was born in 1949 in Cape Town. In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s, the … Africans, form relations with other black…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… lead, and the party that would eventually overthrow South Africa’s old racial order. Plaatje was headed to the U.S. … as a postman, but by 1921 he was well…