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ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 1: The linguistic classification of Kora by Menán du Plessis
… ia a chapter from the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis … Khoisan Language Chapter 1: The linguistic…
ArchiveChildren are the flowers of our struggle and the principal reason for our fight
… Day on 1st June 1983. Blocks with various images of people and children. … Children are the flowers of our struggle and the principal reason for our fight …
Joint communique of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference and the African National Congress
… Journal article containing a joint communique of the South African Catholic Bishops Conference and the … Joint communique of the Southern African Catholic…
ArchiveANC National Conference: Report of the Commission on the ANC Constitution: preamble to Clause 1
… Report of the Commission on the African National Congress … ANC National Conference: Report of the Commission on the ANC Constitution: preamble to Clause …
Document 32 - Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], “A History of the Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers’ Voice, 5, 5, September 1946
… Drew Document 32 - Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], "A History of the Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers' Voice, 5, 5, … Document 32 - Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], “A…
EventFormer diplomat and Director of Foreign Affairs Jackie Selebi is set to lead SAPS
… government announced that former diplomat and Director of Foreign Affairs, Jacob Sello Selebi, would take over from … Former diplomat and Director of Foreign…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… Esteemed Heads of State and Political Parties of the Frontline States, Distinguished heads of delegation … theme which started in 1958 in South Africa. We…
EventAhmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison
… Former president of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, was instrumental in Algeria’s … A. Ahmed Ben Bella Pan-Africanist and First President of Algeria from African…
EventThe first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon
… first radio licence in SA was issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon. The first station in South Africa was put up by … Mishkind, B., " This is the…
EventCanadians, Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod discover insulin, saving the lives of many diabetics
… with J.J.R. Macleod and Charles Best in the University of Toronto in Canada. Both Banting and Macleod were awarded … The Nobel Prize, The Discovery of…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Do please explain. EDITOR:I am not surprised at your being…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… In 1973, Natal women formed a federation of Black women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where … women. The federation grew from monthly meetings to…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… The battle - and the greater narrative of Ethiopia’s independence – is a powerful symbol of African resistance to European imperialism. “Ethiopianism” … were…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a retrospective of the years 1948 to 1999 now at the Axa Gallery. They have ……
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… measures against Blacks, Indian immigrants and those of mixed race. 1949 October 6 , Group comprising workers, … Committee is held to discuss the unjust laws…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) members, Armstrong Madoda, Gaby … his sister in Scotland - family members…
Speech by President Mandela on receiving an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Australia at a graduation ceremony at Fort Hare University University of Fort Hare, 23 April 1998
… receiving an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Australia at a graduation ceremony at Fort Hare University University of Fort Hare, 23…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… Cape Town in early 1930s. Mafekeng left school at the age of 15 to support the family. Her first job was at a “canning … married a fellow factory worker in…
BiographySally Gross
… August 22, 1953 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Sally Gross is one of the most challenging and important figures in our … at birth. She was raised as a boy named…
BiographyDavid Bruce
… he`s a pacifist, but because he won`t ``fight in defence of a racist political system.`` In January 1988, the SADF … South Africa, to be sentenced to the…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… up. After completing high school, Brooks with the help of the Beit Scholarship, went to the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he registered for a law…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape), as the third of six children. The daughter of Ann and Jacobus Ferrus, she is of mixed heritage, … she started…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… born on 2 August 1850 in Alice. His grandparents were part of the 1820 settlers. His father, William Stanford was born in 1820 shortly after the arrival of…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… in the South African War, worked as a principal of the Swartland Laerskool. Her cousins were members of the Afrikaner Broederbond . Her mother came from a ……
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… to graduate with an MB ChB in 1971 from the Medical School of the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal – UKZN) in … Public Protector,…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… as in Worcester, a picturesque Western Cape town northeast of the famous South African harbour city. Supporters of the liberal South African party of General…
BiographyTerry Bell
… Congress (ANC). He subsequently joined the Congress of Democrats (COD). Bell’s journalistic career in 1960s in … Sunday Times and Sunday Express . He was the…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… der Stel’s father duly became the first Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Mauritius. [1] His mother Maria was the daughter of Hendrik…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to … as all later maps indicate…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when … he became a sexton in the separate…