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EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… Dreyer published numerous other history articles and books, and was also an avid collector of Africana. His unique …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… Cape in 1933. While in he was in exile, he wrote eight books and campaigned ceaselessly against apartheid. Prior to …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… the Asiatic Act of 1927 to them. He also authored several books in Hindi, namely History of passive resistance in South …
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… There is in existence a considerable body of literature, books, pamphlets, speeches, polemics, that was created in the …
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… had been rioting in Durban, bloodshed. I was in the bad books of the government, so much so that in 1930 I was served … never, any conflict, except that the…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… arranged for his legal counsel, Harry Bloom, to bring him books under the pretext that he was studying. When Dadoo was … A Political Biography , Brian…
EventLabour Party Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war wins majority
… Bunting: A Political Biography. South Africa: Mayibuye Books. Available at www.sacp.org.za [Accessed: 30 June 2011] …
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… The legend of the Rain Queen was also popularized by the books King Solomon's Mines and She by author H. Rider …
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
BiographyDennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of…
BiographySedick Isaacs
Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… a young boy, his uncle’s library hosted magazines and books that were Hallett’s first source of artistic … [11] . He also began creating covers for Heinemann…
David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
… of the 60 and 70’s published by the artist through several books and series, where humanity is never spectacular, …
Indian education in Natal
… 382 children in Indian schools received free tuition and books or either the one or the other. 1916 The Indian …
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… his series of humerous short stories. He published five books and two volumes of poems in the early 1930s, using the …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… to Natal and the Zulu people. She collected manuscripts, books, photographs and maps over her lifetime, and encouraged …
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… maintained that the number was more than 3 000. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events: …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… Maeterlinck, a Nobel Laureate plagiarized one of his books The soul of the white ant. Marais committed suicide by …
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… worked as a librarian at the British Museum. Surrounded by books and having had the dream of becoming a writer since … published 16 adult novels as well as…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Segregation. An archive of related documents, articles, books and theses have also been included under “Media …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… itself by means of legislation placed by it on the statute books of the South African parliament. Repressive legislation … and political. Although it has…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… at the cameras used and browse through Eksteen appointment books containing notes of every photo he took, the subject …
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… for the weekly magazine, Forum. He also wrote several books under his pseudonym, but was most well know for his …
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Allied Special Forces 1940-43 [online] Available at http://books.google.co.nz [Accessed 22 July 2011] …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… during the police raids. In the background were exercise books, slates, blackboards and chalk strewn about the … acting and recreation. In view of the dearth…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… movement, an anthology of Afrikaans poetry, and picture books for children. The Afrikaner Bond Du Toit called for the … about the Anglo-Boer War.’ Giliomee…
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… throughout the country. They were to receive free books and stationary at a cost of R4, 10 per child per year. …
PlaceAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI), University of Cape Town
… management of Visual Century, a multi-authored series of books on 100 years of South African Art. …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… and Islamic guidance to all Muslims, printing Islamic books and distributing them worldwide. The Institute catered … in Arabic, English and Urdu to date…