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… the party's Divisional Committee. In 1958, he was elected to parliament as a representative of the Randfontein … nicknamed Muldergate, by the English press he was trying to undermine. The scandal ruined his political career and lost the 1978 National Party electoral race to Pieter Willem Botha . The Erasmus commission, appointed by …

… around the Eastern Cape area introducing the game to rural boys. Ntini was given a pair of boots and packed off to Dale College in King William’s Town, one of the country's … control than had been evident previously. Ntini went on to became the first South African to take ten wickets at …

… seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to Johannesburg where Mathosa attended the St. Mary’s High … albums all did well. Some attributed the groups’ success to Mathosa and Seete’s highly sexualised image and dance … a whole new style of dance, fashion and hair styles to teenage girls in the mid nineties. In 1999, despite Boom …

… University College in Grahamstown and from there went to the South African College in Cape Town, from where she … scientific papers on this research of which the relating to the nematode parasites of South African equines is highly regarded and frequently consulted. On her return to South Africa in 1924 Theiler taught Biology for 15 years. …

… in Port Elizabeth.  Langdown’s first solo exhibitions led to him being awarded grants by the Government and the Cape Tercentenary Foundation to study abroad. At this time he was already studying … his somewhat formulaic oil paintings of grouped figures. To some extent this mood also reflects the influence of the …

… she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She returned to South Africa the following year to study at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She later … Rand Daily Mail and The Star . In 1985 Edelstein emigrated to the UK to enter the more competitive European editorial …

…  was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, … towards  full political independence . The first country to gain independence was Liberia  ( 26 / 07 / 1847 ) from … is restricted to those who could trace ancestry in Congo back to 1885. This reflected a desire to counter growing …

… irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the Natal Colonial Secretary was forced to set up a special Indian Immigrants Commission in 1885, to … for ten years or, alternatively, they should be sent back to India after five years unless they were willing to …

… at Mphambo High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg … his third year of study at the university, he was elected to the Student Representative body and joined the African … (EFF)  and a non-voting member at Ad Hoc Committee to amend Section 25 of the Constitution (Ad Hoc Committees) …

… I960 Zungu began selling the envelopes which he decorated to workers sending letters home. In 1966 he made his way to Pinetown, Natal, where he worked in a dairy. Later in the … as a cook. In 1970 a friend of Zungu's showed his work to his employer Mary Clarke, who brought it to the attention …

… a battery assembling plant in East London. Tom was exposed to the union movement at a young age through his father, an … Democratic Front (UDF). Tom was involved in talks that led to the creation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions … 1985, and led his union in talks with other metal unions to form the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa …

… Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s. Sympathetic to the Africanist group within the  African National Congress … attempting a business venture with Joe Molefi, Mahomo went to the University of Cape Town to start a law degree in 1957.In April 1959 he was elected …

… armoured vehicles of the security forces, in the day-to-day lives of Langa’s residents. Other examples chronicle … period were particularly imposing. This was due not only to the direct subject matter but also the use of shallow … large scale, their physicality enhanced by her decision to use wood-blocks hewn from unorthodox surfaces such as old …

… worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to carve from his father who made utility items for his … lost a finger. Hlungwani’s earliest extant sculptures date to the 1960s, although it is the work of the 1980s and later … He named the site New Jerusalem. In the mid 1990s he moved to a more accessible site nearby, which he named New Canaan …

… lawyer, who grew up in Soweto, was genuine when he wanted to organise the mining sector in 1982. "You have to … of a meeting with Anglo American at the time of the 1987 strike during which Ramaphosa "threw all these bullets on the … to be addressed as well. And he will expect you to come back to him and report back on how you have dealt with that …

… Congress in Northern Rhodesia. Both have been unable to attend our convention, for both are now, in the language … assunder, with dramatic suddenness, the chains that have bound his mind, solving problems which for ages it has been … of work and are being told by the foreign ruler to go back to a "home'' which he has assigned them, whether that …

… Congress in Northern Rhodesia. Both have been unable to attend our convention, for both are now, in the language … assunder, with dramatic suddenness, the chains that have bound his mind, solving problems which for ages it has been … of work and are being told by the foreign ruler to go back to a "home'' which he has assigned them, whether that …

… he worked as an English school teacher before switching to journalism during Second World War. Williams then worked … ordered Williams together with his colleague Alan Lipman to resign from any organization that they belonged to. In addition they were prohibited from attending any …

… wanted the death sentence for him. Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage as a result of the trial. … one of murder and attempted murder as well. I make bold to say that every particular allegation in the indictment has … civil war. The public owes a great debt of gratitude to the police...” Decades later, Mandela showed kindness …

… was paying school fees for two of his nieces. According to his wife, Nombulelo Ntonga, "I was very worried, … the news, I was so shocked and devastated that I tried to take my own life by drinking pesticide. His mother and sister, too, were devastated. His mother had to consult a doctor afterwards." …

… financially supported his mother and father. According to his sister, Jamela Tukuza, “Since I heard there were many … the following morning I started looking for him, I went to Phokeng Mortuary and that is where I found his body. I … damaged. I was very devastated and hurt, I didn’t know how to tell my parents as they are not well and very old.” …

… did his secondary schooling at KwaZide High School; he had to leave school in Standard 9 due to lack of finances. He is largely self-taught as an artist. … company in Empangeni building houses. He moved to Durban in 1982 where he met a number of Durban artists.  …

… Yet, knowing the loss would be too great if the fight was to continue, Inkosi Sigananda surrendered and was immediately … health and quite communicative. Yet his body was unable to adapt to the changed circumstances of prison and he died in June …

… secondary school at Orange Farm.  He was introduced to photography by his cousin, a freelance photographer, in … he matriculated and used the profits from his photography to start studying electrical engineering at Vanderbjilpark … 2001, however, he enrolled at the Vaal Triangle Technikon to study photography. Received TEFSA loans for studies and …

… Arts Project at C.A.P. Chapel Street, Woodstock on 1st to 9th December 1989. Artwork of a piano and back of a man with left arm raised. …

… Die Huisgenoot . The first collection of poems by Jonker to be published was  Ontvlugting  (Escape), in 1956. After … Small and Bartho Smit, who had taken it upon themselves to challenge the conservative literary norms of the time. … 1965. Much of Jonker’s early writing evidently relates to the episodes and trauma of her early life. Yet as a mature …

… the Commander of the settlement, had begun writing letters to the Heeren XVII, the VOC shareholders who essentially had control over the company, asking them to help him get slaves for his settlement . From the … to Madagascar, but rather sailed to Mauritius and brought back rice, but no slaves. The Tulp returned in December 1654 …

… closely as part of an alliance of liberation movements bound by the same objectives in their struggle. The victory … independence celebrations, the ANC tried unsuccessfully to send a delegation headed by our Secretary General, but … necessary that as soon as possible I should pay a visit to the newly independent African State, to affirm the …

… for Pacaltsdorp, near George. Korana family names tended to signify a special characteristic or occupation such as the … trekked from their chiefdoms in the south-western Cape to escape pressure from White settlers. These Korana trekkers … Rivier. After the 1994 change of government, it was given back its original name, Gariep. For many centuries the early …

… exile and chose violent resistance. It introduced McBride to Coloured political activists such as James April , Don … his liberation. Through a friend, Robert was introduced to the politics of a regenerating trade union movement,  … Bechet, a (Coloured) Teacher Training College, was elected to the Student's representative Council the same year, and …