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EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… The tale of these two countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th century. In 1823, Egyptians founded Khartoum as … ivory and slaves, while in the 1890s…
Document 15 - “Ruth First , “Progress in Unity Talks: African Organisations Agree Principle”, The Guardian , 23 December 1948
… the two bodies. Their executive committees were authorised to meet jointly to work out the details of unity, and to report to their next … the history of the…
BiographyDaniel Kunene
… Kunene was born in Edenvale, South Africa on 13 April 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the … in 1949 and an M.A. at UCT in 1951. After…
BiographyDiane Case
… race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in Wynberg where Diane attended Battswood … Miller Young Africa Literary award in that…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
… all-female quartet, The Quad Sisters, in direct response to the dominance of male groups such as The Manhattan … Kippie Moeketsi, and Miriam Makeba. The…
BiographyMalusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
… 1971 at Eshowe , KwaZulu Natal . Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo Gigaba. He has … Primary School in Mandeni around 1983…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… life. These include televisions or trade-union logos to make paintings, drawings, or sculptures. His interest is in “utilising images and codes that relate…
BiographySaleem Badat
… struggle, at considerable personal cost. At first aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement , and then joined the … encompasses grant making in the arts…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… Bailey scholarship (an all-expenses paid educational tour to the United Kingdom). In 1969 he married Marike Willemse, … He soon announced his policy of…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… [1] On several evenings during the next few days, I went to Harold Strachan's house on the Berea where several of us … ibid) Sunday 27 March We went today…
George Montsioa
… received his early education at his home and later he went to England for higher education. He studied law and was called to the Side Bar, and returned to…
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
… appeared in “Ons Klyntji”. S.J. du Toit invited Nesser to join the editorial team of “Ons Klyntji” and “Die Patriot” … Unfortunately political differences…
BiographyBheki Myeni
… died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in Natal. Myeni started … in his sculpture, also developed at…
Watson Mzwandile Majova
… 1998, the Truth and Reconcilaition Commission prepared to exhume the bodies of Aaron Makwe, Watson Majova and Paulos … responsible for burying them pointed…
BiographyMarthinus Hattingh
… with photography since an early age he decided to make it his career and decided to study photography. He completed his studies at Port … Technikon at the…
PlaceInn on the Square, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
… Square, an African art market and some town houses dating back to the late 18th century. The historical building in front of …
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… of 20, when he took an overnight train from Johannesburg to Cape Town to meet a pianist everyone was talking about in South Africa: … three musicians slept…
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… and I cannot say much about most of it, but I want to speak on the proletarian character of the subject races of … International literature in general,…
BiographyPule Pheto
… age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and his brother Gibo Pheto were raised. … his brother were very interested in…
BiographySibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu
… should become a democratic, mass-based organisation led to clashes with Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and persecution by … World Federation in Geneva until in…
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
… at the Port Elizabeth Technical Art School from 1929 to 1932. Thereafter she trained in London at the Regent … She lived in Johannesburg and also Malawi, but…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
… French composer and conductor Maurice Jarre engaged Ntoni to record music for the Lee Marvin film “Shout at the Devil”. … Africa in 1976 and his Black…
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
… Indian Youth Congress in the early 1950s and a delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest. He was … member of the Transvaal Indian Youth…
EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
… which calls for a new design of banknotes every six to eight years as a measure to try and curb counterfeit notes, and to upgrade security … note did not…
EventEduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
… Limpopo) after which he registered at Wits University only to be expelled after a year. He then went to study at Lisbon University in Portugal and later in…
PlaceSarepta
… in Germany. Formed from smaller Missions founded as far back as 1799, the Society was amalgamated on 23 September … and its first Missionaries were ordained…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
… Mkwayi went into hiding and then left South Africa to enlist foreign support for the Congress movement. He later returned secretly to South Africa and was…
BiographyJock Leyden
… in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended … classes at the Natal School of Art, Durban,…
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
… at Kwame Nkrumah Military Base. In 1978, he was deployed to the APLA headquarters in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Between … completed all bridging training…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
… Trinity Secondary School in Lenasia in 1976, and went on to study for a Master Arts degree in History at … a senior History and English teacher in Lenasia…