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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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… country. During the first decade of democracy in South Africa, the energies of civil society organisations in the … a new Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS and…
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…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck on the Rand. Moreover, gold … within another context of labour competition…
BiographyJohn A. Mavuso
Born in 1926 Mavuso worked at different times as a messenger and a shopkeeper. He was a member of the African National Congress national executive committee…
BiographyHamilton Kraai
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964 . …
BiographyMilner Langa Kabane
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964 . …
BiographyEllias John Mqoboli
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964 . …
BiographyMkhuseli Joseph Kettledas
Mkhuseli Joseph Kettledas joined the Pan African Congress (PAC) in 1961. He was arrested on 8 April 1963 for sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He…
BiographyJames D. Ngojo
James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was…
BiographyBarney William Ngakane
After living for some time in Orlando Township, Johannesburg, Barney William Ngakane moved to Springs, where he served as chairman of a Liberal Party branch in…
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
BiographyFrank Modiba
Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer and received eight…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… political landscape in both urban and rural areas of South Africa. The late 1920s saw internal conflict between … began to work together with the Communist…
BiographyStephen Mini
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964. …
BiographyShulamith Muller
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948…
BiographyChristina Jasson
Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and textile workers,…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his wife. His father's descent was English and his mother was…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
… Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid …
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
… Mseleku, T. 1999. The new dictionary of South Africa biography Volume 2 . Vista University, Pretoria.|Gail …
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as … Martins who was responsible for the organising…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
… The Presidency Republic of South Africa , ‘Archibald Sibeko also known as Zola Zembe’ , … 2011]| Archibald Sibeko (1928 - ) , [online], from South Africa…
ArticleNdebele
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa’s Black population and can be divided into four … were the ancestors of the Nguni migrated…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting … the glories of the African past. It…
The appointment of Judges
… that have had a profound impact on the law in South Africa. Some of them, and the themes they have tackled, are: … Kaunda & Others v The President of the…