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BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
Edward Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where his father…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and his…
BiographyHester Elizabeth Cornelius
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her family was very nationalistic, with both her…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Nkabinde attend…
BiographyHelen Kies
Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape. Despite a very poor childhood, her father ensured that she received an…
BiographySydney Sekwati Choma
Sydney Sekwati Choma was born in Middelburg, Eastern Province (now Mpumalanga Province) on the 6 June 1956. He started his primary school education at Monyano…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December…
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
Mayatula was born in 1921 in Willowvale in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… OF THE ARRIVAL DAY OF INDENTURED LABOURERS SINCE THE 1990S. BUT CONSUMMATE SUCCESS HAS SADLY REMAINED ELUSIVE. … Day of Indentured Labourers (16 November)…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… countries post- 1945- a conflict that lasted up until the 1990s. The Soviet aim of the Berlin Blockade, as it became …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… same year. Masekela returned to South Africa in the early 1990s and continues to produce music and perform extensive …
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… during the tense negotiations that took place in the early 1990s and subsequently paved the road to the first South …
ArchivePublic Sector Government Local Authority - Transvaal 1989 - 1990
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
BiographyRaymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
Raymond Chikapa (Ray) Phiri was born in 1947 in Nelspruit (present-day Mbombela) in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He grew up with a passion for music,…
BiographyElijah Barayi
Elijah Barayi was born in Lingelihle, (Cradock ) Eastern Cape, on 15th of June in 1930. He was one of eight children of working class parents. Barayi…
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
Neville Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied at…
BiographyProfessor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu
Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually took up work as a…
BiographyJillian Edelstein
Jillian Edelstein was born and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… for his solo album " Thank you for Listening". In the 1990s Gumede collaborated with Paul Hanmer, Andy Narell, …
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
… apartheid in South Africa to an end. From the mid 1990s South Africa became increasingly involved in the …
BiographyRebecca Bunting
Rebecca Bunting (nee Notlowitz) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic…
Afrikaner
… Agricultural Museum, Pretoria, is held annually. The 1990s saw the start of annual arts festivals - the Klein … toured to and performed on university…