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BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later enrolled for a…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… to eliminate the stigma attached to HIV and AIDS. THE LAND SHALL BE SHARED AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IT! Conference … of at conference. We need to accelerate the…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… women, religion, traditional authorities, youth, business, land, and socio-economic rights. Theme Committee 5 dealt with … Rights Commission, Commission for…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
Janet Mary Cherry was born in 1961 in Cape Town, where she was raised. Janet comes from a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… on him. He had taken his case to the highest court in the land and there his appeal had been upheld. Overnight, people … the unshared sufferings of others in…
82. The President’s Council
… British. That is what reduced to penury that once great land which was once so rich and so legendary that the world … was discovered by Europeans in their…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
Dora Nginza
Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… war the British felt forced to depopulate large swathes of land bordering their supply routes to Pretoria. This was done … 8000 fortified blockhouses along…
BiographyMabel Balfour
Mabel Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. Balfour was first involved with the unions representing food and canning…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… of the Cape, which by Ordinance granted the right to hold land to " Hottentots and other free persons of colour born in … 1 1/2d.; in the Transvaal at 19s…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the High Diamond Council, Antwerp, Belgium: 15th November 2004
… whole value chain, starting from access to resources e.g., land and mining rights, finance, capacity building and … other things, on such matters as the…
BiographySteve Dyer
Steve Dyer was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1960. He taught himself to play the guitar at the age of eleven. He studied music at the University of Natal where…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… so that we can live in peace and harmony in this land of ours." Whatever we do, we must not fail his vision of … union in form and spirit of all the…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… availability of a suitable site. Contact Camp . A piece of land, measuring 94.5m by 93m, enclosed by a barbed-wire fence …
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… imploding, the South African Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act. South African … attempts by apartheid South Africa to…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… in their demands for the equitable re- division of the land and universal suffrage. His evidence provided the … trying to lead him on to a different topic…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
Dr. Percy Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his…
BiographyIsaac Mofokeng
Isaac Mofokeng was born in Rustenburg in 1981. He attended the Mokutuli and Seipone primary schools in Sebokeng and Orange Farm respectively. Later he attended…
ArchiveStatement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September
… prioritise education and skills development, as well as land and agrarian reform, as key tools in the fight against …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… building worker and mother looked after the small piece of land he had bought. During the 1914 rebellion, my father and …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
… in our own time, apartheid regime encircling your land. For that, for the succour you gave to our sons and …
PlaceShree Ambalavaanar Alayam Temple Complex, Cato Manor, Durban
… Community was so strong that in 1918 a five acre piece of land was purchased to rebuild the Gangai Amman temple on …
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most dynamic literary…
Opening remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on global sustainability - transforming the world in an era of global change, Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC, African Pavilion, Durban, 06 December 2011
… conflicts such as we have seen in the Sudan over grazing land. As we have always emphasized, a global multilateral …
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
… Cowdrey tried to organise a mixed race team to tour the land and play both the black and white national sides, but …
PlaceNorthern Cape
… as they have since the 19th-Century diamond rush. " The land is mostly desert, including Namaqualand , great parts of …
BiographyDinah Molefe
Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went…
PlaceCacadu District Municipality
… spanning the country. Nearly 80% of the agricultural land in South Africa is suitable mainly for extensive …