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EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… Lucas Radebe, South Africa's celebrated soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, … educational, social and charitable initiatives in South Africa. Alongside the…
PlacePhansi Museum
… of traditional arts, crafts and artefacts in South Africa. Life size dolls showing ceremonial wear from different regions and cultures of South Africa are on…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… was restricted; there was turmoil everywhere and South Africa had in effect become a police state. When Botha … training in Angola. Other women who had…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… South Africa battles water scarcity as it is one of the thirty … to access natural resources. [2] The Union of South Africa implemented the Irrigation and…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
… President, F W de Klerk, announced the end of South Africa’s four year old state of emergency. Immediately after … that will lead to democratic, non-racial…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundreds of protestors took to the streets with #Am I Next posters to emphasize that all…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… discusses further on. "Black" is also widely used in South Africa to refer to the African group alone. Ironically it is … Kaplan et al., Area Handbook for…
BiographyKate Dinkwetsi Molale
Kate Dinkwetsi Molale was born in 1928 and died in 1980 after a car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… funeral was the first big political funeral in South Africa. As bus-loads of mourners neared Biko's burial town … on the causes of Biko's death. Even close…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… is one of the most important turning points in South Africa’s history. To establish what kind of turning point it … transition from apartheid to a democratic…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who defended … during the Apartheid regime.[ii] Moosa…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… report of the conference. Preamble: We, the women of South Africa, wives and mothers, working women and housewives, … a test of civilisation. Measured by…
Submissions & winning projects 2009
… camp” Rose Mohlala on “The history of refugees in South Africa” Mapungubwe Award The National Heritage Council …
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… Finally in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the name was changed to Gqeberha. (…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… kind, as well as motifs of violence linked back to South Africa’s history. This essay explores these issues in direct … one would expect from a novel set in…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… on the slave ship eighteen years before, namely Fortuin, Africa, Masenti, Pedro and July, had come to give evidence on … Quarterly Bulletin of The National…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own … the form of a mass migration into…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… Notes [1] Government documents. The Constitution of South Africa, accessed 4 May 2017 … ↵ [6] Ismail Akwei, Africa News:Zuma’s Cabinet Reshuffle – Who’s In…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the … next to Historic Cave, is one of the few in South Africa to contain…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Champion . Soon ICU branches were opened throughout South Africa, and in 1925 the union moved its headquarters to … of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey…
Everard Read Art Gallery
… In 1912, in Johannesburg , one of South Africa’s most famous art galleries was established. The … and size, just as Johannesburg grew into South Africa’s…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… one of the founding Museums of Ditsong Museums of South Africa and the oldest in the Country. The Museum is situated … (Tshwane) and was founded as the…
Khela Ngobese
Ngobese was born in 1960 in KwaMashu but he later moved to Cator Manor Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School…
BiographySibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa was born in 1952. After joining the African National Congress’ military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977, Mbongwa commanded a…
BiographyColonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa was born in 1952. After joining the African National Congress’ military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977, Mbongwa commanded a…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South Africa’s most prolific novelists she has written non-fiction … of years, the changing response to…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… white rule in before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The Zulu population of Natal were pushed …
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the…
BiographyElias Phakane Moretsele
Little is known about Elias Moretsele's youth. At an early age he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC,…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… the first black trade union - the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - and had been behind some of the party's … roll of honour of proletarian heroism [was]…