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BiographyPumzile Mayapi
Pumzile Mayapi was born on 8 September 1956 in Willowvale, Eastern Cape. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in June 1980 when he was still a student…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… independent during the period from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The Coming of Apartheid Key to understanding this …
EventLlewellyn Herbert was born on this day
… as the golden boy of South African athletics in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[vi] During the 2004 Olympic Games …
BiographyBuchi Emecheta
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the Nigerian city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice …
BiographyAnton Edward Rupert
Anton Edward Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree,…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka was born in Johannesburg and received his early primary education there. His secondary education was at Headltown near Fort Beaufort in…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government introduced…
BiographyEphraim Mojalefa Ngatane
Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called …
BiographyHilary Mutch
Hilary Mutch (née Hilary Claire) was born on 4 November 1941 in Erith, south-east London into a Jewish family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist…
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…
BiographySheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the Roedean School…
BiographyAlec Erwin
Alexander Erwin (Alec Erwin) was born on 17 January 1948 in Cape Town to Dennis and Rosamund Erwin. Alec, as he became known, matriculated from Durban High…
BiographyWilliam Khanyile
At a young age, around the early 1960s, William Khanyile began selling the New Age newspaper in Pietermaritzburg. By then he was already interested in Marxism…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
Nellie Jibiliza was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active…
ArchiveSouth Africa no longer blamed for all Africa's ills 1989 - 1990
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… stigma continued to surround the disease and in the early 1990s some prominent white leaders publically claimed that a … politicized along racial lines in…
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… in the late 1980s and the transition in the early 1990s, and from such a strong source, it would have confirmed …
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
[Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… the old myths of Africa's past continued well into the 1990s. With minor exceptions, it was mostly historians from … not find their way into public school…
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the 26th assembly of OAU Heads of State and government Addis Ababa, July 9-11, 1990
Speech by the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the Banquet hosted by the President of the Republic of India New Delhi, 15 October 1990
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… organisation throughout the period from the 1970s to the 1990s, covering all the costs including air travel. The SACP …