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BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… South Gujarat city of Surat, in India. In 1896, at the age of 15, Dadoo, Senior, arrived in South Africa as part of … College at University of Edinburgh,…
Yesterday’s Poems and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets for the Unfinished and Continuing Struggle for a new South Africa by Saleem Badat
… and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets for the Unfinished and Continuing Struggle for a new South Africa by Saleem Badat …
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… the Europeans came, Mr. Goldblatt includes a late-Iron Age settlement on the grasslands of the highveld: a pile of … latrines. A 1990 picture of a shiny…
BiographyKobera Manual
… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed … every standard except one, she learnt Arabic from…
BiographyDoe Molefe
… Molefe began making highly original post-boxes at an early age. He is currently self-employed, running a cafe and fruit …
BiographyCharlene Smith
… survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto uprising the …
BiographyRuth First
… was born in Latvia and came to South Africa in 1906 at the age of 10. Matilda came to South Africa from Lithuania when … six months later, to continue as…
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Frederik), who was administrator of the Transvaal at the age of 29, is appointed principal of the South Af
… (Frederik), who was administrator of the Transvaal at the age of 29, is appointed principal of the South Af …
News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre
… of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre …
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
… was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father … a B.com degree from Unisa. Matlala died…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
… 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued … with Westernization’. Jabavu died on…
BiographyJackson Mthembu
… grandmother Sarah Mthembu to work in the mealie fields, at age seven. His grandmother and uncles raised him. During the … Pinkie, Khwezi Mthembu committed…
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… studies. He developed an interest in politics at a young age and by the age of 16, became a member of the African National Congress … Andrew Sibusiso Zondo…
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… State, Herman Cohen, said that the US strongly opposed any new sanctions, as this would be counterproductive to the … together with the international…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… found concentrating a challenge in school from a young age but was extremely active. He played rugby and … Non-European Unity Movement. They were to be part…
BiographyBenjamin John Peter Tyamzashe
… at Frere Hospital, East London on June 04, 1978 at the age of 87 and was buried at Zinyoka location. …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… life until he re-emerges in the records when, at the age of twenty, he moved to Holland and married a young woman … had become necessary to facilitate the…
BiographyNana Sita
… During the Second World War, when the Government imposed new measures to segregate the Indians and restrict their … Africa, then I shall not have strived in…
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… S.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape's water supply problem … projects such as the Voelvlei Dam were…
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… Ruth First he began writing the occasional article for New Age, the movement's newspaper. The first came out in June … The strike was the first to be held…
BiographySir Patrick Duncan
… Oxford, where he gained several distinctions. At the age of 23 he entered the Revenue Department at Somerset …
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… He was one of four sons, one of whom died at a young age due to a heart problem. Learning music and playing sport, … years. Forty-year-old Mrs Dorothy…
BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
… never knew. Adjai with a group of other boys about his age were parted from their mothers and sisters and exchanged … Adjai Crowther was consecrated for his…
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… and went coal mining in the forest of Dean, Wales. At the age of nineteen, Long joined the Royal Horse Artillery and … on 6 November. On virtually the same…
BiographyJan van Eck
… Civic Association. His persistence resulted in even the New York Times reporting on the matter. The Truth and … Van Eck, died of a heart attack in Cape Town…
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
… Magogo at Nguthu and completed his secondary schooling at New castle Intermediary. In 1920 he started to train as a … of Zululand for nine years until his…
BiographyJoe Slovo
… in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg . … council. In June 1989, the SACP…
BiographyJohn James Issel
… area of Worcester outside Cape Town . At a tender age, he worked on a vineyard, cleaning grapes for the export … radical tracts, issued by the Christian…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… relationships and not a position of absolute power. Once a new Ngola was chosen from one of the dominant noble families, … Source: Miller, Joseph C. 1975. …
ArchiveSouth Africa Bomb Blast Kills 2, New York Times, 25 October 1988
… New York Times … South Africa Bomb Blast Kills 2, New York Times, 25 October 1988 …