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BiographyA. B. Nogoya
Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid regulations…
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training Institution, where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… because it fit in with his grand plan. He came to South Africa in 1870 at the age of 17 in the hope that the climate … Afrikaners (leading to the creation of…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… term of his sentence in Pretoria, before leaving South Africa on a ‘permanent departure permit’ in December 1971. … of prison writing, the book remained…
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… P.W. Botha in August. President De Klerk started South Africa on the road to full democracy. In February,1990, he … the way to a new dispensation for all the…
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… Stern are two of the most prolific woman painters in South Africa. They both introduced expressionism to South Africa. Laubster was also a singer and had…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… other residents escaped injuries. Zimbabwe blamed South Africa for the attack but, predictably, South Africa denied they were behind it. The booby trapped TV…
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… the University of Leipzig. Van der Bijl returned to South Africa in 1920. He founded the Electricity Supply Commission … was soon providing sufficient…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… policy, and proposed guidelines for a democratic South Africa in a Charter for Change, a document that was adopted … must be based on the will of all the…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… as critical components of a class analysis of modern South Africa. This chapter seeks to provide an understanding of … communities. Yet there is a major…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… semi-colonial countries attended the Congress in Brussels. Africa was represented only on a negligible scale; but “if we … must have been disappointed by the…
EventTanzania gains independence
… Missionary Society preceded French interaction. East Africa was seen as an opportunity for German colonial … an area including Tanzania had become known as…
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… Party (TNIP) which pressed for 'independence' from South Africa. When Transkei became 'independent' in 1976, Kaiser … for a housing project. With mounting…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… car accident in Paris. Her funeral was broadcast in South Africa by the SABC. The Funeral Speech (Eulogy) to Diana … by her brother Earl Charles Spencer,…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… to cover the occurrences of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. Soon after his arrival in South Africa, he accompanied a scouting expedition on an armored ……
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
ArchiveFrontstaaten
… and yellow poster. Boycott poster. Grey artwork of map of Africa. Southern African countries outlined in yellow with …
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
Born in 1900, Johannesburg Chamile worked as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… Award for Peace. Since then, the situation in southern Africa has deteriorated. Nelson Mandela and other leaders are … gives way to a nonracial, democratic,…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… and modern. From 1886 {until 1940] the story of South Africa is the story of gold. - C.W. de Kiewiet, 1941 The … history. Far more than diamonds, this…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Introduction This year, 2009, the people of South Africa celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harare … document adopted by an OAU sub-committee on Southern…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… Motlana and family, The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cde Kgalema Motlanthe, Former President Thabo Mbeki, … the family of our icon and founding…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… the prison was built to hold. The Black community of South Africa filled the prisons during apartheid. Even in prisons … she intended on going back to the…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew … a different era. Her first task was to…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… Keorapetse Kgositsile; The Politics of Publishing in South Africa and What it Means for Writers, Orenna Krut; The School Library in Contemporary South Africa…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… 16 December is a day of great significance in South Africa due to two historical events that took place. The … The Voortrekkers, having moved into the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… primarily by sporadic armed activity inside South Africa from October 1976. The previous chapter showed how the … destruction of the ANC’s small underground…
BiographyGary Jim Player
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Laubscher, L. (1999) “Gary Player” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
EventRev. Allan Hendrickse is elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party
… was elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party of South Africa at its thirteenth Congress in Bloemfontein. The party …