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PlaceNamibia
… Africa was negotiated between the German and Portuguese nations. In 1890 the first German military fort was built at … of the British War Cabinet, put…
BiographyPaula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… political songs and deliver two speeches at the United Nations. Key Words Miriam Makeba, music, Pata Pata, Soweto Blues, Graceland tour, United Nations…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… gives the go-ahead for the formation of a Congress youth league and nominates ET Mofutsanyana to serve as Secretary … 21 February: The leaders of the newly…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… on the British to release Gandhi and for the United Nations to intervene to hasten the independence of India from … in India, the Indian National Congress,…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… step towards a Workers' and Peasants' Republic. A "broad" League against fascism and war was duly formed -on paper, of … War broke out, a subsidiary…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… was a member of the Steering Committee of the first United Nations Office to the African Union (UN-OAU) Conference on … as an individual expert on four…
BiographyJosias Ratshilumela Madzunya
Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe,the son of a polygamous Venda…
BiographyJosiah Thugwane
Josiah Thugwane was the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He was born on 22 April 1971 in the small town Bethal, eastern…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth League, a new leadership came to power in the ANC. Walter … in a number of other respects. The resistance…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… He was founder and President of the present Congress Youth League which has sent a delegate to the world youth rally at … of the leading figures in the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… the Peace Conference. We want the Government of the United Nations to know and act in the light of our interpretation of … Empire, the United States of…
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… fully conscious of their conditions. The African Women's league was formed in April 1986 in Katlehong and has ever …
BiographyAlfred Mangena
Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
BiographyJacob Koti Dikobo
Jacob Koti Dikobo was born on 22 April 1962 in the village of Bataung (Makgophong) in Zebediela, Limpopo, where he also grew up. He went to Khureng Primary…
BiographyJabu Sithole
Jabu Sithole was born on 23 October 1949 in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where he attended primary school until age seven when he was struck…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the ANC Youth League. I wish to commend the Youth League for placing the Freedom Charter at the centre of its ……
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had headed the BWL, …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… equal treatment. Gordon Lee of the International Socialist League (ISL) forms the Durban Workers' Industrial Union. The … Lee and represents the Union at the…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… (OAU – now known as the African Union - AU) and the United Nations Security Council on various issues including the …
BiographyRajes Pillay
… where she was assisted by the head of the United Nations (UN) refugee programme, a Doctor Ambrose Zwane, a … in Swaziland was as a Refugee Counsellor for the…
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton,…
Amos Ndwalane
Struggle veteran Amos Ndwalane, who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990, was allowed out of his…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…