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Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… in Africa (the franchise, abolition of passes, equal land laws, free education, abolition of the indenture systcm …
BiographyAndries Treurnicht
Andries Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Cape Town. He attended Piketberg High School where he matriculated in 1939…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) to Wilmot Goso and Nobantu Ntebe…
PlaceHawaan Forest, Umhlanga
Across the M 4 the Forest rests on a 2 000 year-old sand dune. Sounds old enough but Hawaan, by contrast, stands sturdy on a sand Dune that is 18 000 years old…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… altogether. 1981 Jan Knappert published Namibia Land and Peoples, Myths and Fables as part of the Religious … and Future Prospects, 18–19. ↵ [47] Jan…
From retirement to parliament
… of our country to the African position and status in this land of our birth - South Africa - because the Government and … of choice of residence and no right…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government introduced…
BiographyBasil Coetzee
Basil Coetzee ( ‘Ou B’ or 'Manenberg' as he was affectionately known) was born in District Six, Cape Town, on 2 February 1944. He grew up in the area, and as a…
BiographyAnna De Koningh
Anna De Koningh was the daughter of Angela van Bengale. She arrived with Angela from Batavia, but who her father was is unknown. Like her mother, Anna de…
BiographyRobert Cedric Wilcox
… Kayser, R., (2002) “Land and Liberty: The Non-European Unity Movement and the Land Question, 1933-1967.” Unpublished Master’s Thesis, …
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… Dar- es Salaam. The ANC leadership is offered a piece of land at Kongwa, 400 kilometres south of the Der es Salaam, …
BiographyAndrew Murray
Andrew Murray was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland to be educated, where he…
BiographyViola Hashe
Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
On 23 January 2011, John James Issel also known as Johnny died at the age of 64, after he had suffered renal failure at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town…
BiographyDr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper
Sathasivian “Saths” Cooper was born on 11 December 1950 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
Abdulla Ismail Kajee was born about 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
BiographyVilla Baker
Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan, East Rand Transvaal …
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… superior” (2008, 988). Jan Penrose’s exploration of land’s significance in primordial thought is interesting in …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, 12th June 2007
… we have had to speed up the process of regularising our land-use management system. The existence of a plethora of laws regulating land-use across the…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
Rocky Malebane-Metsing was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his schooling, Malebane…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… franchise in the Cape Province and the restrictions of land ownership, had just been passed. This required the … so that we can live in peace and harmony in…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
Joseph Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg,…
PlaceJohannesburg Public Library
The Library opened its doors to the Public in 1890, operating from several short-lived spaces provided, until a site was acquired in Kerk Street where it would…
BiographyNdazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)
Ndazana Nathaniel (Nat) Nakasa was born on 12 May 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife,…
BiographySolwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him Looksmart because when he…