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BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
… born in Umkhumbane Durban on 23 September 1948. He went to Chersterville Secondary School where he completed Standard 9 in 1965. He proceeded to study for…
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
… help of the Reverend Henneck Seloane, Rakgoathe was able to attend Ndaleni Art Teachers Training College. When he … Dennilton near Robertsdale for a short…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… South Africa's industrial achievements are often pointed to with considerable pride — sometimes by outsiders, but more … cover of Johannesburg to slip the…
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … since their inception in the 1880s trade unions attempted to shape the…
BiographyLeonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso
… Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the … 1972 he studied at the Bill Ainslie Studios…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
… settled there in the late 1870s. The family was on a visit to Schleswig Holstein when Freund was born. She attended … of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in…
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… would return from a fishing trip, Miss Latimer was welcome to examine the Nerine's catch, taking any unusual specimens … arrangement, Courtenay-Latimer came…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… the centre of your photographic terrain, but you also go back to the Karoo all the time. Do you follow particular routes or return to familiar places? Well,…
BiographyMyron Peter
… upon learning that his name was on a list of 41 students to be expelled, Peter left university and studied through … he received training from student leader…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Africa during the 1960s and beyond, both sections seem to have been revived in the late 1980s, but have played … in Cape Town, voice the assembly's…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… an extension of that programme, the curators' desire to elevate the art of Thami Mnyele has been so crudely executed that it forces you to question the…
BiographyWycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi
… President of the All African Convention (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in … attacked 10 years later as too…
Victor M Mgadi
… armed wing of the ANC. The establishment of this wing led to the ANC being branded as a terrorist organization. The … often covered up by secret burials, a…
BiographyPumzile Sokanyile
… death, Mr Sokanyile’s mother collapsed and died on her way to hospital. According to his sister, Songstress Notukile Nkonyeni, "No one can really know what…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… climbs through neighbourhoods, along cliffs and down to the sea. These stairways connect people to the city and to each other. They are part of Cape Town’s ……
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… funds for the further studies of young Namibians and to help start the first black newspaper, South West News. … women were stripped of their dignity. When…
BiographyHector Pieterson
… claimed. Another student, Hastings Ndlovu , is believed to have been the first to be shot by police on that fateful day. Approximately 566 … ‘Youth Day’…
BiographyLesley Hastings Ndlovu
… during the Soweto Uprising in 1976 . He is widely believed to be the first boy who was shot dead by police on that day, sustaining an injury to his head from…
BiographyHarold Strachan
… University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, … in explosives, and his anti…
BiographyIan David Kitson
… and Allied Technician’s Association. He returned to South Africa in 1959. In 1953 he was a member of the South Africa delegation to Youth and Student…
BiographyMichael Barry
… Barry worked as a computer operator. In 1976, he moved to Cape Town, Western Province, to work as a sailor a for merchant shipping company, … of Cape Town…
BiographyPaul Konings
… was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the … He wrote about these…
BiographyThabo Motene Marera
… film companies in the world) and said he wanted to learn from how to become a great film director from Keith Rose - who founded … the director, with whom…
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of … his father 's death in 1903 most of the family…
BiographyMads Nørgaard
… people, conversations and dynamics that exist within that; to shining a light on the youth, and some of the challenges … oldest town. Mads has used…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
… as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in … Party's district committee. In 1929…
BiographyHudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
… of South Africa . Overseas scholarships took him to Georgetown University in Washington DC and at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, USA to study linguistics…
BiographyPeter Mokaba
… , Mokaba became a leader of school boycotts, which led to his expulsion from school. He nevertheless managed to complete matric on his own in 1978 and then…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… School of the American Board of Missions and then went on to the Inanda Seminary, a private girls’ school in Natal (now … the clothing industry. Mvubelo’s…
BiographyLucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe
… 2010. It was agreed that no conditions should be attached to the renaming, as it was an honour for Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer…