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BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
Early Life and Teaching Career Matsie Angelina Motshekga (popularly known as Angie Motshekga) was born on 19 June 1955 in Soweto, Transvaal (now known as…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
William Andrew Hofmeyr, popularly known as Advocate Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa[i] . After matriculating from…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
1815 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg cross the Oranje/Gariep river. June 1836, Van Rensburg leaves Trichardt while Potgieter goes on an expedition to…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… with him tracking down a woman he had photographed in the 1970s. With the help of a fixer and some community members, …
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… from 1920s Soviet-influenced laborer imagery to their 1970s Mozambiquan and Namibian counterparts. Buttons, …
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… to the work of the AAM during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite the lack of international focus on South … had visited Robben Island when in opposition…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… plan worked and there was economic growth but in the mid-1970s the economy started to fall excessively. This brought … for the future that may lie ahead was…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into the local conditions…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… to die." The "Free Mandela" campaign, launched in the 1970s, caught the imagination of people. A concert on his …
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels was born on 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… mismanagement had thrown Zambia into crisis by the 1970s, and resources were scarce. Food was rationed and, at …
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
Mokoena was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was brought up by Anna Khomo…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Zulu by researchers at the University of Natal in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and published and unpublished … Riots Commission and interviews conducted…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… from the defeat, and the mass movement revived in the 1970s, it was these ideas which came first to the fore again …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… of ‘strategic ethnicity’? The Natal Indian Congress in the 1970s." African Historical Review 46, no. 1 (2014): 22-47. …
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old, due to the Group…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… Influences on writing ; Black writing and art - 1960s and 1970s) Davis, Geoffrey V ; Manaka, Matsemela ; Jansen, … Michael. 'Soweto poetry : socio-literary…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… such attempts serious reverses could be expected. As the 1970s dawned, practical attempts to re-instate an ANC presence in South Africa in the early 1970s…
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge numerous Black communities on the Transvaal Highveld occupying land in what was…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…