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Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
… Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg from 1957 to 1959.After four years as a personnel manager with a rubber … leadership of South Africa Students'…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
… Atlanta Chiefs. After a few years abroad, Motaung returned to South Africa and immediately started proceedings to form his own team, to the disapproval of…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
… Born in 30 November 1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined … were jail during the 1952 Defiance Campaign.He was…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African National Congress (ANC)and the South … Congress from the time the Nationalist…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
… former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning to study art in order to work in the film industry, Hlobo decided to pursue a career as a visual…
BiographyZainunnisa “Cissie” Gool
… the African Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped to form in 1902. Abdurahman was also the first black South African to be elected to the Cape Town…
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… for our freedom. Your voices carried across the water to inspire us in our prison cells far away. Tonight, we are free. We are honoured to be back in London…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… Henry Khaaba Olonga was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Kenyan father and a Zimbabwean mother. The family moved back to his father’s homeland, Kenya, before…
BiographyConny Braam
… some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland … of this organisation. This…
BiographyGabriel Kee Kuboni
… He was born in Durban. From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Lourenco Marques High School, which changed its name first to Sibonenlo High School, and which is…
Luvuyo Mgobhozi
… in September 1986. The three policemen went into KwaMushu to arrest the MK operatives whom were consequently held under … men, as well as planting rifles and…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
… in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and … he has written in…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
… where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an … in the design of housing where they used…
PlaceMakhonjwa Mountains, Barbeton
… succession of volcanic and sedimentary rock dating back 3.6 to 3.25 Billion Years, when the first Continents were starting to form on the primitive Earth. It…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Two years after … twenty-three incidences of sabotage from late September to date. At the time the…
EventSouth Africa and the United Kingdom embroiled in a diplomatic crisis
… African government in retaliation for London's refusal to evict the fugitives announced it would not send four South African back to Britain to stand trial…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… insist on their role in making history. Then, they vowed to a stubborn oppressor that they would resist and fight for … of our first democratic government,…
EventMorocco reclaims its long lost region of Sidi Ifni from Spain
… On 4 January 1969 an agreement to return Sidi Ifni to Morocco was signed between Spain and Morocco. One of the … happy about the resolution. The story of…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… Warren Buffet once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that then you’ll do things … crashing down…
EventANC leader, Oliver Tambo, dies after a long illness
… of Bizana in Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was the first back person to open a law firm in the country with Nelson Mandela. …
BiographyEdward Sonnyboy Bhengu
… Sonnyboy Bhengu was born on 8 November 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera … of Don Mattera, also of Sophiatown. Bhengu…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… the Afrikaners as a social group and a ‘race’, which led to the apartheid regime. The article briefly traces the key … more detail on these key events see…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… South Africa? A : I can only tell you that in 1968, I came to New York with the dummy of a book and showed it to a number of publishers to whom I had…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… Libyan Arab Jamahiriaya for your kind and warm welcome to me, my wife and the entire South African delegation. It is indeed a special pleasure for us to be…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… Kansas in the United States of America. [ii] She went on to attain a Master of Science degree at the University of … Kenya, between the years 1976 and 1987,…
BiographyDr. Philip Blaaiberg
… the recipient white. This caused some strange statements to emanate from the right-wing: “The relief of suffering … or a baboon or giraffe, for that matter…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
… owned a large farm in the Thaba 'Nchu reserve. He belong to a chiefly family of the Barongsub-group of the tswana and … relative of James Moroka by marriage…
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
… he established a network through which he recruited people to uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. In 1963, he was arrested and sentenced to 17…
BiographyLetta Mbulu
… then England with the musical King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced … in the United States. While in the…
BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
… 1991 and is a qualified Industrial Psychologist. From 1994 to 1999, Dr Nzimande was a Member of Parliament and … Education Policy Unit at the University of…