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ArticleCosatu timeline
… Cup COSATU launched its post-World Cup declaration. South Africa needed to come together, as they had during the world … COSATU affiliate National Union of…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… thunderstorms and is ironically the Economic powerhouse of Africa!" 'Joburg' as it is called by locals, was founded in … the African continent, Johannesburg…
BiographyLucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles
Lucy Mary Wiles (Mullins) was born in Johannesburg, 1920. Wiles originally trained as a nurse. She also studied under Nils Andersen and Walter Gilbert Wiles…
BiographyLennox Sebe
Lennox Sebe was born on 26 June 1926. He completed his matric at the Lovedale College. Upon his completion he went to attend a teachers college. Sebe had a…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot…
Sabata Manaka
Sabata Manaka, also known as Tsepo Nkosi, was born in 1951. He lived in Phiri, Soweto, Johannesburg. Manaka left the country in 1978. His brother, Ezekiel…
BiographyCaiphas Nxumalo
Caiphas Nxumalo graduated from Rorke's Drift in 1971 and during the 1970s was a free-lance artist in Pomeroy. He uses indigenous woods for his sculpture and…
Eric Anthony Abraham
Eric Anthony Abraham was from Wynberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). He was a University of Cape Town graduate who had worked as a…
Michael Mike Matsobane
The Matsobane brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their efforts fell under the non-political YACM (Young African Christian…
BiographyLungile Kepe
Born in 1927 Kepe worked as a labourer. He took part in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the Defiance Campaign…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… 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…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… at the interiority of being Black or non-White in South Africa came to dominate cultural expression. By contrast, … equal opposition to institutionally…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked by the apartheid state's tight control … their own lines in their own areas”…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… of abstracts for individual papers and panels for the 2012 Africa Century International African Writers Conference. The … in African history – such as the…
ArticleZulu
… 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…
Zulu Community
… Frere was appointed British high commissioner to South Africa in 1879 to realise the Policy of Confederation. This … them more of a threat to peace and…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… opened the door for the negotiations which, led to South Africa’s first non-racial polls on 27 April 1994. His … due to infighting over its role in post…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into a new Cold … end to white rule in both Rhodesia…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… Background - "The Road to Reconciliation." South Africa experienced numerous human rights challenges during … hitherto unbridgeable racial disparities. Thus,…
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
BiographyMujahid Safodien
Mujahid was born on 17 of March 1972. He matriculated at the Alexandra Senior Secondary School and went on to do a Graphic design and Fine Art Photography…
BiographyMargaret Chuene Mncadi
Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. She…
SAHO Milestones
… With Our Own Hands - Fighting Poverty in South Africa Edited by Omar Badsha A book and exhibition about poverty and development in South Africa, commissioned…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… on the one hand, and Black Africans living in southern Africa, on the other hand. These activists did not create … out of nothing, but rather took elements…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… proclaims an end to the immigration of Asians to South Africa. 28 January, Gandhi reaches a compromise with Smuts . … Court that prevents the emigration of…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… of the reserve economies. Full proletarianisation in South Africa, would threaten the migrant labour system upon which … Beyond the Pale: Essays on the…