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BiographyMoses Mphahlele
Moses Mphahlele was the Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Transvaal during the 1920s, he was born in Pietersburg and received his…
ArticleSouth Africa’s World heritage sites
… A World Heritage Site is declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation …
BiographyEdson Sithole
Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
Prof Brij Maharaj was born in 1957 in Merebank, south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN). His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a shop assistant at a…
BiographyCarol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
Mlungiseleli Velaphi (MK name Mzimkulu Goduka) was born in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape in 1967 was a United Democratic Front (UDF) member. He left South Africa in…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… the go-ahead for the formaÂtion of the Congress Youth League Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The … 1941 is passed April, The African…
BiographyRichard Mzamane Mabaso
1981: Gallery 21 (Haenggi Foundation National Art Competition). 1983: Milner Park, Johannesburg (SA contempoprary art). Gallery 21 (two-person exhibition with…
BiographyNgwenduna Vanda
Ngwenduna Vanda, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) was from Peddie, Eastern Cape. He was killed in combat with the…
BiographySimon P. Mkalipi
One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial, he was born in 1913 in Grahams town and completed the sixth grade. He worked as a cigarette salesman in…
Public announcement of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee hearings of Comrades Julius Malema, Ronald Lamola, Pule Mabe, Sindiso Magaqa Kenetswe Mosenogi and Floyd Shivambu, 10 November 2011
… together with other national leaders of the ANC Youth League addressed meetings of the ANC Youth League throughout the country urging their members to…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… the South African regime began immediately after the League of Nations placed the mandated territory of South West Africa under South Africa. Following the…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Sithembiso Dlamini, Siphephelo Dlamini Both Clermont Youth League Killed in Sithengele High School. 14 April near Durban … home of brother Joe. 11 August…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… On 17 October, Savimbi informed the United Nations (UN) that UNITA was accepting the results "in the … concluded and ready to be signed. After losing a…
BiographyDouglas Ramokgopa
The case of Douglas Ramokgopa illustrates various aspects of banishment: the issue of freedom of movement while in banishment and, in this instance, the sheer…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…
BiographyJacobus Wilhelmus Sauer
Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer was born in 1850 at Burgersdorp in the Cape Colony. He did his education at the South African College in Cape Town. After completing…
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after he left school in…
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)…
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… was later expanded again with the support of the United Nations (UN), resulting in Apartheid in Practice in 1972. …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948. It is the basis for human … (SADC), the African Union, the Commonwealth…
BiographyC. S. Mabaso
C. S. Mabaso was born and educated in Natal and worked at various times as a teacher, a shopkeeper, and a clerk. For about 20 years he also was the secretary…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
Elijah H. Mdolomba was born in the Cape and educated at Healdtown. At the time of Bhambatha Rebellion in 1906, he was chaplain to a loyalist African army unit…
BiographyDavid Bruce
David Bruce received a call-up notice from the South African Defence Force (SADF) in July 1987. His choices were two years in the army, exile, or six years in…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… University of Sussex Brooks with assistance from a United Nations scholarship for the Victims of Apartheid. His thesis … stay in the Britain. In the 1990s he…
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, and sentenced to three years`…
BiographyEudy Simelane
Eudy Simelane was born on 11 March 1977 in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (Gauteng). An active LGBTQI+ activist, she was one of the first women to live as openly…
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC) at Chesterville in Durban just before it was banned in 1960. He then went underground and embarked on a…
BiographyIrvin Jim
Irvin Jim was born in1968 in the Eastern Cape in Motherwell. He became a university student, active in the anti-apartheid movement but poverty forced him to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… General at first national conference of ANC Women's League. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi returns from exile at … sworn in as the country's first President by…