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BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
… and Wally Mongane Serote, the group is often referred to as the ‘poets of the big cities’. These are not … depicts the South African situation. The satirical…
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
… wishes. It was, however, through him that he was exposed to it, as well as a host of artistic personalities. Gregoire left SA in 1935 to study at the…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… served as chaplain of the Cape provincial ANCand from 1942 to 1946 was a chaplain in the Native Military Corps.Gawe … the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign in…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… support from all the Namibian local tribes. In an attempt to divide and conquer, the South African government, which … part of the motivation for the South…
Conflict among civic organisations
… civic organisations. 21 civic organisation affiliated to CAHC were coloured areas. However, the formation of CAHAC … Action Committee (DBAC). The DBAC was…
BiographyKhotso Seatlholo
… would secretly come in and out of the country from time to time during the years that followed his exile. In 1981, during one of his secret visits to South…
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The state of … after it was announced on July 20. P W Botha in an attempt to suppress growing opposition…
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… The government withdrew its plan to place a limit on the number of black students admitted to white universities, but remained committed to universities ……
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… for Vainona High School in his home country. He then moved to Texas, USA, where he played for Plano Rugby club before moving on to Dallas Athletic Rugby Club…
BiographyDr. Pholile Mpofu
… Dr. Mpofu noticed that the field of dermatology tended to be neglected by black doctors, and felt she could have an … at the Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital,…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… a member of the ANC national executive committee from 1949 to 1955 and acted as ANC chaplain at numerous conferences. … the militant decade of the 1950s, he…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… It’s a conflict that had a very powerful racial component to the extent that race was used as an element of state … a nation. I can still remember in 1960, I…
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… football club, was shot dead by hijackers while trying to take his car in Pimville, Soweto. The highjacking took … night while Mlokoti was waiting for his…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… had possibly migrated earlier from further north in Africa to settle in Namibia. The Herero people's freedom and culture … revolt were kept secret and the…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… the Anglo-Boer War. Soon after my arrival I was listening to a Labour orator from London named J. L. Page, then … of the South African News printing works,…
”Africans and San Francisco.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma, May 8, 1945
… what part the African National Congress is taking to bring to the attention of Allied Nations and [the] outside world the back-breaking and hope-destroying…
BiographyLeo Marquard
… He served in the Royal Air Force until his departure to further his education. In 1920 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Oxford University where he…
BiographyAnna Zieminski
… School of Art in Cape Town. In 1985, Zieminski moved to Johannesburg to pursue a career as a freelance photographer. In 1988 she … that played a key role in…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir trip to the United States (US) Institute of the…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… the stresses and strains of the hectic City life. A chance to escape the daily grind and re-energize the Soul. Darling … has a variety of Tourism offerings…
BiographyGraham Goddard
… in Wetton, Wynberg and, Belthorn. In 1980 his family moved to Mitchell’s Plain where he currently lives. He became … at the Ruth Prowse Art School, in…
EventCape Supreme Court sets aside 1973 Ciskei election of Lennox Sebe on the grounds of irregularities
… for the office of Chief Minister. However, Sebe manages to launch a successful come back when he becomes Chief Minister of the Ciskei, after he …
BiographyEric Hendrik Louw
… During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was … he became Minister of Economic…
BiographyEsther Susanna Mentz
… Afrikaans records and teaching singing. In 1934 she went to Germany to study singing and acting and returned to South Africa in 1937. After her return she…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
… Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting … declared him a prohibited immigrant and forced…
BiographyTiyo Soga
… most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South African to be ordained in an established…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my comfortable home in a white suburb, to my comfortable …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… British ideas about race, class, gender, and empire led to the appropriation of rugby and cricket by Whites, and … new national competitions that electrified…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… and arrested all of us. I could not see what happened to the other comrades but some jumped out of windows and ran … and sentenced to five years in prison…
BiographyCharles Templeman Loram
… Institute vogue in black American education, Loram helped to promote the concept of industrial education in Africa as a … Native Affairs Commission created…