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Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… Audience Following the Soweto uprising of 1976, the South African government placed increased importance on … or a bit of information can actually sway…
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… a small village near Zeerust North West Province, South Africa. His parents, now late, were Nkokwe Peter and Moleseng … two articles that they regarded as …
BiographyAnton Muziwakhe Lembede
… the Orange Free State, he enrolled with the University of South Africa (UNISA) to further his studies. At UNISA he managed to … Lodge, T. Black Politics in…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… quarter loss of oil output following the secession of South Sudan. The demonstrations began in the East and spread … mean they withdraw their military…
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
… forms. Instead, Sihlali worked from observations of the world around him, an approach which John Peffer notes was … on representing realities of urban life…
BiographyDumisani Abraham Mabaso
… which annually brought together artists from around the world to exchange ideas and share knowledge. In 1987 he … a recording studio in Soweto. He exhibited…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… Mofutsanyana , a leading member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) – which later became the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953 – and the…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… de Klerk, was a Cabinet Minister and the President of the South African Senate. His brother is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de … and bring about a new Constitutional…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Introduction Following British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in … nationalism reached its momentum after the Second…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… Before the country had time to settle down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South West and East … I…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent. South Africa has eight designated official sites: uKhahlamba …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… 1940 Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr Yusuf Dadoo's role as an activist in … Africa and other militants, the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… to self-employed blacks in 1923. Economic effects of the World War In the period we are examining, a world event was having … power in trade and colonies…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
… 1982. A year later he joined the newly formed Congress of South African Students (COSAS). While active in student … in the township, Shabalala and his…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… for the democratic ideals they had defended in the Second World War, less than five years earlier. The new government, they … would introduce an era of…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa [i] . After matriculating from Nassau High School, … took and passed the attorneys’…
BiographyFred Khumalo
… for several publications such as City Press, Sunday World, Sunday Times, Sowetan, UmAfrika, Isolezwe, This Day, … Staffrider. His journalistic work has been…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… South African prime minister, General J.C. Smuts, asked … to his promise in 1939 that SA troops would only fight in Africa. The Sixth South African Armoured…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… ANC. For instance, the car bomb explosion in front of the South African Air Force Headquarters and the South African … end the ban on the ANC. Nelson…
BiographyFrederik Bester Laubscher
… in London. He studied in London and Paris and returned to South Africa in 1951 with a strong formalist grounding. Laubscher’s … his illustrious career…
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
… 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). A quiet and … were futile. He now began talking…
BiographyErnest Sedumedi Moloto
… He matriculated in 1938 and then enrolled at the South African Native College (University of Fort Hare) for a … in 1970 – all qualifications from the…
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
… the Prisons Department in Klerksdorp.and later joined the South African Defence Force . He worked as a soldier and … As a result of the persistent violence…
BiographyBasil Paul Petersen February
… and had to drop out of medical school. He joined the South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) in 1963 … they are barred from any communication…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… to create and maintain the African cheap labour on which South African capitalism has always depended. South African capitalism developed late, in a world…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… including a national class boycott organised by the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) in 1972. But the … strategic lessons from other struggles in…
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack
… colleagues were. During this period he was active in the South African Students Movement (SASM), which was linked to … of SASM, was among those who…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… Nkosiyane, was well known as a vigorous opponent of the South African government and all its works, from tribal … called the Matanzima brothers "spies and…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
… Party. In 1929 Kotane joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , and soon became both the vice-chairman of the … In 1955 he attended the Bandung…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… for people of all colours to begin to find each other as South Africans. It was the antithesis of that vision that … and rural drift into the towns after the…