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Gallery
… This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that … The struggle for freedom and equality has its roots in the colonial period, but the…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law Jurisprudence, History of Law, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, Private Law … Association, and in 2006 was selected as an…
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… his expulsion from Turfloop, Tiro was offered a post as a history teacher by Lekgau Mathabathe, the Headmaster at … students to question the validity and…
BiographyHendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn
… the most appreciated and best-loved pulpit orators in its history. Everyone who knew him could testify to his humanity, … CT., 1934; --- A. v. SMIT, God made…
BiographySarah Gertrude Holland
… they started being children again. The purpose of the establishment was to break the cycle of abuse and neglect, …
BiographyDeborah Jean Budlender
Deborah (Debbie) Budlender received a five-year banning order in late November 1976 alongside more than 20 other people working in the nascent black trade…
BiographySolomon Madikizela
Solomon Madikizela, from Amagutyana Location, Bizana District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] “established himself as the leader of proceedings at…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… now called South Africa. Although the sources of African history became relatively more abundant in the nineteenth … that resulted in massive dislocation of…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… 1. Introduction ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors … for historians to construct narratives of precolonial and…
South African Constitution 1996
… on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in this country. The … laws are judged. The constitution made…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
… of South Africa (UNISA) majoring in Education, English and History. Mazibuko then studied for the Executive Strategic …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… Soviet Union). The Agreement included a charter for the establishment of an international military tribunal in which … signing of the Rome Statute marked,…
BiographyLionel Mxolisi Majombozi
One of the group of African medical students at the University of the Witwatersrand who participated in the founding of the African National Congress Youth…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the … socio-political landscape. This feature focuses on the history of…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… his efforts along with the title of Colonel in the Cape Colonial Forces. In 1902 when the position of Chief … of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a family staunchly opposed to apartheid. Her father, a lawyer, worked in the…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… that had been sent to replace their Mathematics and History teachers who had resigned. Moodley voiced her … Moodley) – Black Consciousness activist part of…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… E. & Andor, L.E. eds (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
BiographyGodfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo
Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo was born in 1909, he grew up in Bloemfontein, graduated from Wilberforce Institute, and studied journalism through…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… co-researched, edited and printed the Mzabalazo Pictorial History of the ANC for the Mayibuye Centre, University of the … - Contributed and co edited and…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… guiding and moderating influence on African political history in its most crucial period. He was at the same time … , Yale University, 1934. Master of Arts…
BiographySylvia Neame
… After completing high school, Neame obtained her BA in History and Social Anthropology in 1961 at Rhodes University, … after being released from jail – as…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… 2008. Between 2001 and 2002 Ndebele was the Chair of the History Panel in the Department of Education. He was also a … · Chair, Ministerial Panel on…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Cape Town has a long history of the struggle against racial discrimination and … to extricate themselves from clutches of encroaching colonial domination…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
… College at Oxford where she completed a master's degree in history. She taught at Rhodes for a short time but then she …
BiographyEnos Molapo Makhubedu
… Transnet to paint six panels on aspects of South African history for the Transnet corporate headquarters in Parktown, …
BiographyJim Bailey
… urban life. Drum covered sport, crime, sex and the social history of Africa. Political issues were handled with caution … [Accessed: 25 August 2011]|South…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… an administrative division set up in 1865 by the Colonial authorities on land confiscated from hostile Xhosa …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… to Christianity by two Christian traders. This begins the establishment of Ethiopian Christianity. The Ethiopian … 1115 CE One of the longest-running…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
Optometrist Julius Louis Saks was the first son of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South Africa from England in 1905. Sidney Saks became a…