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BiographyHermanus Lethebe
… Justice, Oswald Pirow, announced a new bill, an amendment to the Riotous Assemblies Act, which would give him the power, without reference to the Courts, to…
Judson Diza Kuzwayo
… was arrested the following year while carrying out orders to leave South Africa,he was sentenced to ten years on Robben Island,where he participated in ……
BiographyC. S. Ramohanoe
… the Transvaal African National Congress (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the … Bloc. He was active as a young man in efforts…
Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape
… was declared a prohibited individual there and returned to South Africa. A founder member of the Black Peoples … detained in September 1974 and sentenced…
Henry Eric Isaacs
… early the following year,then banned and restricted to Pietermarizburg almost immediately after being chosen SASO … following the banning of Jerry Modisane …
Wendy Schwegmann
… that played a key role in documenting the resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. At the time she was freelancing for Reuters and was a regular contributor to …
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
… of the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council. Moving to Durban about 1947, he was elected to the executive committee of both the Natal Indian Congress … from…
BiographyGana Makabeni
… as a young worker in the 1920s. In 1926 he was elected to the party's central committee, becoming one of its first … one of the most prominent early African…
BiographyBertha Mkhize
… was about four years old, after his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to…
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
… University. In 1977, at the age of 33, Cobbing came to South Africa and became an active photographer in the … As a member of Afrapix, Cobbing contributed…
9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay
… by Bartholomeu Dias , the first Portuguese explorer to reach the Cape in 1488. There are more than 2 000 shipwrecks, dating back at least 500 years, off the…
Eric Anthony Abraham
… personal bodyguard for protection. In January 1977 he fled to Botswana where he was given emergency travel documents to travel to England. …
BiographyBen Wa Mokoena Arnold
… Center and later was a pupil of Sydney Kumalo. From 1961 to 1968 he was an assistant an teacher at Jubilee Art Center. From 1966 to 1968 he taught sculpture…
BiographyEdward Clark Churchill Mace
… Mace was born in Leicester, England, 1863. He emigrated to Australia when he was eighteen and made a fortune from mining. Rendered insolvent there, he came…
BiographyVice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu
… in the MK High Command until the integration of the forces to form the South African National Defence Force in 1994. … After the integration of the forces,…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
… in the British colonial service in Basutoland from 1941 to 1952, during which time he became fluent in Sesotho. In … of white resisters in the Defiance…
EventAbyssinian fortress of Dessie is captured by South African troops during World War II
… South Africa joined in support of Britain. The decision to enter the war led to divisions between English speaking South Africans and the … with historical…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… in the Anti-Apartheid movement, specifically in relation to the SACP and the ANC The international aspect of the … dependence on South Africa, would have,…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative ways…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… on prior oppression unleashed by the apartheid state to bolster its power, created a situation where, in the words … of oppression. A deliberate policy…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Rocks, Ballito and Shaka's Rock Village, which date back to roaming Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 … be visited in the Shaka Valley, near Stanger,…
BiographyAlfred Khumalo
… freelancing for Bantu World , where he took photographs to illustrate his stories. In 1956, Khumalo found a permanent … was intrigued by the impact of…
BiographyWilliam Luscombe Searelle
… an imperfect anagram of “Israel.” As a child he was taken to New Zealand and ran away to sea at the age of thirteen. Searelle became associated with the…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… of Bophuthatswana, where she rose through the ranks to Associate Professor and served there until 1991. From 1992 to 1993 she served as Associate Professor…
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… Lorna Peirson . After completing his studies, he went on to teach at the Appelsbosch Training College at Oswatini from 1969 to 1971. Between 1973 and 1974,…
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… were found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to periods of imprisonment, three for six years and six for … five years. The next day they were…
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… newspaper. He was born in Northern Rodesia (Now Zambia) to English parents. The family moved back to Britain when Rusbridger was five years old. He later …
BiographyAndries Treurnicht
… the Sharpeville Massacre , he used his editorial powers to agitate for separate development of Blacks and Whites, and he rose to prominence within the ranks…
BiographyJodi Bieber
… until 1996. She covered the historical period leading up to and during the first democratic elections in South Africa … of her projects are based in Africa…