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ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
Figure 1.1. With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism. Flagrantly authoritarian figures like Donald…
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
An image showing the persecution of German Jews after the Nazi took powerImage Source Source 3A The source below shows how the Nuremberg laws affected…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
This topic follows on from the previous one. Having looked at a period when it was not clear that Europe would dominate the world, this topic now explores how…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
ArchiveNational Senior Certificate Grade 12 Memorandum: English Home Language P1, November 2016
BiographyPhumzile John Gomomo
Phumzile John Gomomo was born on a farm in Adelaide on 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and Nonga Stofile …
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange Free…
ArchiveNational Senior Certificate Grade 12 Exam Paper: English Home Language P2, November 2016
ArchiveNational Senior Certificate Grade 12 Exam Paper: English Home Language P1, November 2016
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
QUESTION 1: HOW WAS AFRIKANER NATIONALISM PROMOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE 1930s TO 1940s? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
The picture above shows how dire the situation was in America during the Great DepressionImage Source Source 2A The source below describes the impact of…
BiographyVuyani “The Beast” Bungu
Vuyani Bungu was born on 26 February 1967 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He attended the local primary and high school before dropping out at grade…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African…
BiographyPercy Ndithembile Konqobe
Percy Ndithembile Konqobe was born in 1939 in Nigel, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province). He completed school through standard six (now Grade Eight)…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of the…
BiographyFred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine…
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Fihla grew up in PE from 1945, after his parents…
BiographyDeputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Dikgang Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise…
BiographyVice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu
Vice Admiral J. Mudimu was born on 6 March 1954 in Sophiatown (Johannesburg). He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) in 1975…
BiographyDavid Perumal
David Perumal lived in Derby Street, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and worked at College Clothing in Albert Street. He was educated up to standard six …
BiographySam Tambani
Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni Jack…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (Bra Ike) was born in Ga-Makgato (Blouberg Municipality) on 26 February 1931. He completed his Standard 6 (Grade Eight) at Uitkyk…
BiographyBhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the…
BiographyMatsiketsane Mashile
Soon after his birth, in 1927 at Maripeskop near Klaserie in the eastern Transvaal [Mpumalanga], Matsiketsane “Lanios” Mashile’s family was relocated to a farm…
BiographyHamilton Naki
Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in 1930. His family was poor and after completing primary school he left for Cape…
BiographyJessie Yasmin Duarte
Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Julie and Ebrahim Dangor. She…
BiographyArchibald Campbell Jordan
Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of…