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EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… United States and Western Europe. Eba wrote a number of books including Personal Witness (1992), a memoir, and …
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… Prof. Smith was also a prolific author, and wrote many books on fish, such as Sea Fishes of South Africa and Old …
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… be used against me in a subsequent trial. Most of our books and papers were in a small room off the back verandah, … a lot easier. Another surprise was the…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… artist. He exhibited in Venice and illustrated many books, including some of Krige’s works. Interestingly, Krige …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… great friends again.” [68] Though they did not publish books, the following authors, including Isaac and Mqhayi, …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… president. Ashe served on several corporate boards, wrote books, and received numerous honorary degrees. References: …
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… solitary confinement and charged with possession of banned books. She was released on bail and finally acquitted in …
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… fruits, vegetables and beef; to glass, to radio and TV; to books, to steel, to educated manpower, virtually everything! … Kwame. (1980). Axioms of Kwame…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
… bringing out information that is not readily available in books. My interviews with the family of PR Pather enabled me … materials but it is quite…
PlaceWindermere
… of ‘ dompasses ’ which were referred to as ‘references books’. These reference books and work permits determined who would be allowed to …
ArticleProvincial Leaders
Provincial governments South Africa's government is divided into a legislative body (Parliament), Executive body ( the Cabinet, who are also members of…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…
BiographyManiben Sita
Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, (Marabastad, Pretoria) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly politically-active family…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a…
BiographyNorman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the…
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… and great risks resulted in three seminal and definitive books, yet all of them differed fundamentally from what we …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
The Mughals were a powerful Turkic-Mongol tribe that originated from Central Asia.[1] The Mughal Empire controlled most of Northern India from the 16th to the…
The fall of the ANC: what caused it by Chris Kanyane (News24), 11 December 2016
… of the ANC is a concept that is dominant in the media. Books have been written about it. You have a book titled the …
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… as well as personal military journals and history books. …
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… cameras he used and browse through Eksteen's appointment books, containing notes about every photo he took, the …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… were cleared of all charges on 11 October 1996. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1995). Keesing's Records of World Events: …
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… as artefacts like pots or types of weapons, jewellery, books, paintings, documents, instruments or places such as …
ArticleMafika Gwala School Debate Contest 2020
… Lindo Hlophe (Ukusa High School) Prizes: Certificate, Books - Mafika Gwala Collected Poems, Alfred Temba Qabula …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… Guardian and the Springbok Legion in nine urban centres. Books and documents were seized in the hope that they would …
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… Then we moved back again to documents, 400 documents, and books too, to be presented to the expert on communism for his … might come forth eventually from…