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Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in New Delhi, India.
… Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in New Delhi, India. …
EventSir George Gray, governor of the Cape, lays the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital
… Gray, governor of the Cape, laid the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital in Green Point, Cape Town. The hospital … thought to be severely damaged and…
BiographyAmichand Rajbansi
… was born in Clairwood, Durban on 14 January 1942. At the age of 14 he attended every African National Congress (ANC) …
Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite his age and a painful eye infection, President Kruger leaves Pretoria by train for the Natal Front
… Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite his age and a painful eye infection, President Kruger leaves …
Glynis Johns, South African actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis), is bo
… The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis), is bo …
The Swiss government sends an official protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South African age
… government over the illegal activities of South African age …
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
… career out of boxing. He started his boxing career at the age of 17 when he won the Natal Midlands lightweight title. … best prospects at the time - where he…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
… his ‘expected’ time. The death of his brothers before the age of 30 convinced him that his turn was imminent, but at 40 he saw his life as having a new…
BiographyArthur Maimane
… killed in 1957. While in Ghana, Maimane worked for Drum's new West African edition and radio Ghana. But local politics … Maimane returned to London. He died…
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… was born in 1945 in Johannesburg, South Africa. From the age of 19 he studied at the NATD, Johannesburg College of … He is currently represented by David…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… meetings. He was an avid reader of The Guardian and The New Age , newspapers run mainly by members of the Communist Party …
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… party leaders in the Western Cape. I n 1938, a t the age of 15, he joined the National Liberation League led by … 2004 September served as a Member of…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… was a factor present in Mpumlwana’s life from a young age. However, it was only at university ( University of Fort … five years, the BCP recruited Asha…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… in it. Historical coordinates don’t fit life any longer; new ones, where they exist, have couplings not to the rulers, … novel a quotation from Gramsci: “The…
Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize
… across Zululand. In 1981, while trying to start an old age home in her community, Mkhize died at the age of ninety-one. … //fundza.mobi/home/books/non…
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
… university studies in Ethiopia . On 30 March 2016, at the age of 79, Kgosana retraced the steps the historic march he … poorest members. Kgosana died on 20…
ArchiveNeville Alexander and South Africa’s New Left, c. 1957–1964 by Allison Drew
… Neville Alexander and South Africa’s New Left, c. 1957–1964 by Allison Drew …
EventIvory Coast's new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… Ivory Coast's new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office …
BiographyDavid Moiloa
… allowed them to be forgotten for too long already.’ The New Age of 9 March 1961 reported that David Moiloa was summoned …
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
… used to sell the Congress newspaper, at that time it was New Age. We also used to hand out leaflets when the Congress … for which there are room in it have…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Party issued a pamphlet under the title, The Road to A New South Africa, in which the party's attitude towards trade … and set up an organisation of his own,…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew … for over-fishing and bribing…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
… in London. Adelaide Tambo’s political life started at the age of 10 after a raid by the police, following an … work, caring especially about elderly people…
Winnie Mandela, Defying Pretoria, Vows Vengeance by Alan Cowell(The New York Times), December 4, 1985
… From: Nelson Mandela: South Africa's Liberator (from The New York Times Archives) … Defying Pretoria, Vows Vengeance by Alan Cowell(The New York Times),…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… at a compound in Riverside, Pretoria . From a young age, Makeba loved to sing at church, and performed her first … Kong co-star, Hugh Masekela, in 1964…
BiographyEmil Sachs
… to him, the correct date was not known. Until the age of three Sachs was physically weak and had not yet learnt to speak, but at the age of four his…
BiographyJonathan Clegg
… England for Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South … than that available to his peers at the…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… as the sole breadwinner, Abrahams dropped out of school at age 14 in 1940, after finishing standard 6. She went on to … 1994, Abrahams took her position…
BiographyVincent Tshabalala
… up. Tshabalala became politically influenced at a young age by the Bethal Trial in 1977 where a number of Pan …
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
… murdered and sister died from malnutrition at a very young age. His mother resorted to running a shebeen in order to … drama. He died in Dortmund, West…