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| B-0068401 | biography | Emil Sachs | 1900-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0007988 | biography | Patricia De Lille | 1951 | ✓ |
| A-0065203 | article | The Black Face of Apartheid | 10 Jun 2011 | – |
| A-0124415 | article | Simon van der Stel Timeline | 10 Nov 2017 | – |
| B-0064864 | biography | Sicelo Mhlauli | 1949-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0068227 | biography | Reverend Beyers Naudé | 1915 | – |
| B-0123390 | biography | Gordon Sprigg | 1830-1913 | ✓ |
| B-0008997 | biography | Olive Schreiner | 1855-1920 | ✓ |
| B-0068163 | biography | Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker | 1920-1977 | ✓ |
| A-0082421 | article | The History of May Day in South Africa | 25 Apr 2012 | – |
| A-0099605 | article | Women’s Revolts in Natal: 1959 | 15 Jun 2015 | ✓ |
| A-0120750 | article | People and Culture of South Africa | 13 Apr 2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150368 | biography | Ntongela Masilela | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0148775 | biography | John Jack Curtis | 1912-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0149434 | biography | William Sinclair Winship | 1927 | ✓ |
| B-0141679 | biography | Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane | 1921-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0141688 | biography | Harold Wolpe | 1926-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0148466 | biography | Franco Frescura | 1946 | ✓ |
| A-0098708 | article | 1970’s: Poetry Timeline | 2 Dec 2014 | – |
| A-0016588 | article | A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005 | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0016821 | article | HIV/Aids in South Africa | 21 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0065051 | article | Oral tradition and indigenous knowledge | 28 May 2011 | – |
| B-0144661 | biography | Raymond Arthur Dart | 1893-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0149417 | biography | Tlou Theophilus Cholo | 1926 | ✓ |
| A-0059799 | article | Role of Black people in the South African War | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0065195 | article | The Transkei | 10 Jun 2011 | – |
| A-0099345 | article | ‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton | 28 Apr 2015 | ✓ |
| A-0099340 | article | Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman | 28 Apr 2015 | ✓ |
| A-0073799 | article | Way of life in ancient Egypt | 1 Feb 2012 | – |
| A-0016902 | article | Buddhism | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
BiographyEmil Sachs
Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs'…
BiographyPatricia De Lille
Patricia de Lille, a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children…
The Black Face of Apartheid
Biko was critical of the homeland (Bantustan) policy. At the height of his influence, between 1963 and 1976, Steve Biko called the homelands “the greatest…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
14 October 1639: Simon van der Stel is born to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens aboard le Cappel on route to Mauritius. 25 May 1646: His father,…
BiographySicelo Mhlauli
Sicelo Mhlauli was born on 25 May 1949 in Cradock. After completing high school, he trained as a teacher at Lovedale College and upon completion taught at…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
Early Life John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
The struggle for a shorter workday, a demand of major political significance for the working class dates back to the 1800s. On 7 October 1884, the Federation…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. It is, however,…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites. The first modern inhabitants of the country were the hunter-gatherer San (‘bushman’) and…
BiographyNtongela Masilela
Professor Ntongela Masilela was born on 9 December 1948 in Orlando West, Soweto, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), the eldest son of Florence Vuyiswa Masilela…
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
John (Jack) Curtis was born on 31 August 1912 in Geelong, Australia, the third of nine children. He left school at 14 to start work and help provide for the…
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
1971 Closure of The Classic, by Nat Nakasa, editor. Publication of ‘Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’, Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, by Renoster Books,…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 The first biography ever written…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
HIV/Aids is a deadly disease, which is currently not curable. The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can tell us a lot about how people lived, what they…
BiographyRaymond Arthur Dart
Raymond Dart was born on 4 February 1893 in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. He attended university in Queensland and Sydney. In 1920, Dart pursued further study…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
Tlou Theophilus Cholo was born in 1926 at Kgakana Village, Polokwane. A son to a trade unionist, his father worked in Johannesburg where he was an active…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
Introduction The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a 'White mans' war, fought to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa…
ArticleThe Transkei
Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei, where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens Rachel Fenton ‘Politics and the Novel’ January 2015 …
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
Abstract Despite John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace being the most critically engaged with novel in the South African canon, there remains an…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
Social structure in ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptians are the inventors of another feature of civilization still existing today - the complete dictator! Social…
Buddhism
Buddhism Please note: this information was added recently and is not complete. If you would like to contribute a lesson on this topic or have any content…