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BiographyPortia Modise
… central striker. She started playing for the South African Women’s National team, Banyana Banyana, in 2000 at the age of … years old. In 2000, Modise made…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
… campaigns of that time. She was actively involved in the women's movement and women issues. Mophosho mobilised women in Alexander for the Transvaal…
ArchiveWomen and migration in South Africa: historical and literary perspectives by Kalpana Hiralal
… Women and migration in South Africa: historical and literary …
BiographyEve Hall
… Around this time, Hall was arrested with three other women for promoting the ANC (which was banned by the … six months in prison, becoming one of the first…
BiographyLouis Botha
… their quarry, deported prisoners-of-war, and placed the women and children in concentration camps, where the death … rebels, and Chamberlain eventually…
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 way, … politics and photography, as in pictures of the Women’s…
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… was closed down as a result of strikes against passes for women. This disrupted his studies. During the 5 months of … his expulsion from Turfloop, Tiro was…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… featured six of her own compositions. She performed with women’s a capella group Big Sister. She also taught music in … In 2006 some of her images were…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… at the Industrial Council. In 1948, she established the Women’s Progressive Union that worked hand-in-hand with the Institute of Race Relations. Her aim was…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… in politics when she became one of the first Black women to join the CPSA in the late1920s, becoming the … campaign further assisted historians in…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… 1983, she helped form the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW), an affiliate of the United Democratic Front … served on the National Executive Committee of the…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
… 90s. Ngcobo was one of the main speakers during the 1956 women’s anti-pass march that was held across the country. She … be Told (1987) recounts the…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to … further development of wireless communication technology. History of the radio The…
Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize
… and curfews and took part in campaigns against passes for women in 1931 and 1936. She was active in the African National Congress Women's League and…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… to rehabilitate children, and to empower Mozambican women. Machel has also participated in international fora, as … Armed Conflict on Children, the first of…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
… the Defiance Campaign . Mnumzana was part of the anti-pass Women’s March of 1956 to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. In … became the secretary of the…
BiographyGertrude Shope
… Coronation Hospital and later began to work with training women in crafts and with youth rehabilitation. From 1958 to … Western Jabavu Branch of the …
A UN report states Sub-Saharan African women and young girls are the hardest hit by Aids.
… A UN report states Sub-Saharan African women and young girls are the hardest hit by Aids. …
Demonstration in Johannesburg (21-28 October), protesting the issuance of reference books to African women, starts.
… protesting the issuance of reference books to African women, starts. …
The War Museum at the ‘Vrouemonument’ (Women’s Memorial) in Bloemfontein is officially inaugurated by Gen. Hertzog.
… The War Museum at the ‘Vrouemonument’ (Women’s Memorial) in Bloemfontein is officially inaugurated …
ArchiveSouth African Women Unite For A Non-sexist Post Apartheid South Africa! By SPEAK, 1990, South Africa
… South African Women Unite For A Non-sexist Post Apartheid South Africa! By …
ArchiveDe Klerk Stop The Violence! ANC Women’s League Takes Mass Action by SPEAK, May 1991, Johannesburg
… De Klerk Stop The Violence! ANC Women’s League Takes Mass Action by SPEAK, May 1991, …
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… arrested. There were eighteen resisters, six of whom were women: Zainab Asvat, Zohra Bhayat, Amina Pahad, Zubeida Patel … when tents fell on them. The…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
… wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She participated … and sent back. She next planned to…
Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood
… Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since … Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since …
A Military History of South Africa From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid by Timothy J. Stapleton
… A Military History of South Africa … A Military History of South Africa From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End …
The Place of India in South African History: Academic Scholarship, Past, Present and Future by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… The Place of India in South African History: Academic Scholarship, Past, Present and Future by …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… Mathews ''Loop-en-val'' Motshwarateu , from South African History Online, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za … Motshwareteu enters the annals of…
The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence By Jeffrey B. Peires
… The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence …
South African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected
… Mbeki hails Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected …