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BiographyMannie Manim
… imprints in the arts and entertainment industry in South Africa and globally. His involvement in the arts industry … in Perth, at the Queen’s Theatre in…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… change the whole attitude of the African people towards South African law courts. It will assist the new movement for … an outside invasion and not to…
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
… subsequent research into the lives of African artists in South Africa. When the late Sipho Sepamla invited her in 1986 to … and Lives – the story of early…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… Mokoena was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s … was President. He was later elected…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of … Trial was significant. The Trial was watched by the…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… with Dalasile the chief of the AmaQwati. During the Ninth War of Dispossession, Stanford was appointed to oversee the … Stanford then took office. During the…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… and decisions. The extension of the PAFMECA area to South Africa, the heart and core of imperialist reaction, … and national movements in Africa and other…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
… he was defeated by Jerry Modisane for the presindency of South Africa Students Organisation (SASO) but instead he became the … interacting with bodies such…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South Africa, where David chose to pursue a career in anthropology. … reputation as an anthropologist…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Celebrations of the Bicentenary of the Independence of Haiti: Port-AU-Prince, 01 January 2004 Your Excellency, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
… that established the first black republic in the world, and the second independent state in the Americas and … slave traders who had scoured the coasts of…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… the increasingly repressive 1950s. Mini was tasked by the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) to organise … voice was enunciating his final…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… the Indian community”. For Ela the defining moment for South Africa was the United Democratic Front (UDF) , which brought … the wall. The difference between…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… and the reemergence of hundreds of millions of people in world politics as free and active participants in the … of extreme and entrenched imperialist…
BiographySelby Bangani Ngcobo
… Party. After retiring from UBLS he worked for the World Bank. In July 1975 he returned to South Africa to become economic adviser to the KwaZulu Government …
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
… indication of a process of positive change taking place in South Africa. But he has been out of Tanzania since August … not allow a situation to arise…
BiographyPule Pheto
… including Viva La Black with Louis Moholo, a South African drummer . He also often works collectively with … and in 2003 he collaborated with Louis Moholo,…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
… He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed the Natal-Transvaal border and was sentenced … were withdrawn later. Gandhi wrote…
BiographyBob Hepple
… of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence and Aid Fund The young Hepple attended … law graduate in 1957. He was admitted…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… growth in Sophiatown’s population in the decade straddling World War II, 1936 to 1945 is attributed to the war and subsequent … (Sophiatown, Martindale and…
A new class struggle
… in agreement that the main anti-Indian feeling in South Africa was directed towards the merchant class, these … standing room." According to Spencer Tyron,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other anti-apartheid … up to 25 000 at a time when communist…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… completing a degree with UNISA in 1950, he taught Anchorat South End High School, where he was Deputy Principal until September 1963. In South Africa Frank…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker … in 1955, and was followed in 1960 by The…
BiographyJan van Riebeeck
… conquest or the administration of a territory in southern Africa. Their interest was to ensure the provision of vital … "Jan" van Riebeeck remains a…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
… Hillbrow . Mpe’s move to Johannesburg was at a time when South Africa was in transition from an Apartheid state to a … of Black people to find an identity in…
BiographyMono Badela
… Media Studies at Rhodes University (2002). "Mono Badela - South African journalistic legend" "How does a young white South African become a journalism…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… of HIV that are prevalent in different parts of the world. The earliest known case of any type of HIV in a human … Aids made the jump from animals to people…
BiographyAdam Glasser
… in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South…
BiographyRodger Bosch
… Over the years, he has photographed the joy and pain of South Africa emerging from apartheid. First, the early democracy … with its most celebrated President…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… and it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef … Kunsakademie. He was a changed man…