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ArticleImpact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945
… Impact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after …
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest … I am a grassroots person. I am here to…
ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE COAT OF ARMS, Kwaggafontein, 27 April 2000
… we are also gathered here to unveil yet another symbol of our national identity, our new Coat of Arms that now stands before us for the very first time. It ……
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home … he was ten years old and went coal…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. The formation of the Union of…
BiographyJohn James Issel
… Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town . At a tender age, he worked … It was during this time that he was…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to the … St. Mary's Anglican School, Daggakraal,…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… Your royal Highnesses Distinguished Secretaries General of the OAU and the United Nations Honourable Ministers and … privilege for us, who have only lately…
Archive16 June: international day of solidarity with the struggling people of South Africa
… Grey, black and white poster. Photograph of people protesting, and being ill treated in South Africa. United Nations Centre … 16 June: international day of…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High School, … he matriculated in 1997. He graduated…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… died in the 1920s.Many years later, former Prime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima would say that old Mhlobo … instrumental in selecting Sabata as heir,…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Es'kia [Ezekiel] … as…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… Mannya is Sotho or Pedi . This is consistent with her being born in the Ramokgopa district and sources confirm that … possible that Maxeke's birth place was…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… The South African Federation of Consumer Associations (SAFCA) issued a statement distancing itself from a body called the South African Consumers Association…
BiographyRobert Moffat
… commissioned at Surrey Chapel as an LMS missionary. After being commissioned as a missionary, he was sent to the Cape … moved with his family to Kuruman…
ArchivePhotograph of a man in a wheelchair
… Black, white and blue poster. Photograph of a man in a wheelchair holding an umbrella, being pushed by a woman. Voedingsbond FNV logo. … Photograph of a man…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… South Africa. I had accepted that whites, simply because of the colour of their skins, lived on a higher … search for the banished, had begun to make me…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some … with more skill and force than the International Center of…
BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
… Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The … raids and pretty wars. It was in 1821 that…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of nonviolence. And [then] this idea of the armed struggle … people would get to…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of February 22,…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
… be moved to Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain towards the end of the forced removals period. His father, however, passed … first time on a portable record player,…
ArchivePolicies of apartheid of the government of South Africa
… Policies of apartheid of the government of South Africa, progress made in the implementation of the declaration on apartheid and its destructive … Policies…
BiographyDr Hersheela Narsee
… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School … Voster…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - … replying to a request by an international trade union body for information about…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different … (Millin: 1924, 295; italics in the text), and their being such acquires an…
BiographyHelen Joseph
… She graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927. She then taught for three years in India, … decision to become a social worker,…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… ). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of the American Board of Missions and then went on to the Inanda Seminary, a … as a government …
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… is a number that ought to be deeply etched in the minds of all Africans. For during 1912 achievement parted ways with … into a covenant to become one nation…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The … had its origins in the city, it had a reputation for…