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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 …
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
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…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… united under communist rule. This lasted until the early 1990s when the union broke apart in a protracted civil war. …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… injure personnel or people rather than equipment. In the 1990s South Africa began to revise its policy on the use of …
EventWorld War I begins
… united under communist rule. This lasted until the early 1990s when the union broke apart in a protracted civil war. …
BiographyMartin Tose
The quiet and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the…
BiographyAzhar Cachalia
Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in Benoni, Gauteng province, South Africa. He…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
Molefe Pheto grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg. As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
Tiego Moseneke, former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke’s younger brother, died on 19 April 2023 following a car accident. He was born on 4 August 1963 in…
BiographyNosipho Dastile
Nosipho Dastile was born in 1938 in Uitenhage, a town in the Eastern Cape. After finishing school, she worked as a community activist as well as a volunteer…
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…
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
Reginald Dudley Forde was born in Johannesburg on 20 April 1940. He completed his schooling at Clifton School in Nottingham Road and obtained three degrees at…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… but also brutal part of Namibia’s history. Since the early 1990s, the Herero and Nama people have been working hard to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… increasingly turned to the mines for work. By the early 1990s, an estimated 100,000 Basuto worked in South Africa's …
BiographyNgugi wa Thiong’o
The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on…
BiographyEzrom Legae
Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata Legae was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1938. He attended school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied…
BiographyKalushi Drake Koka
Kalushi Drake Koka was bornin Pietersburg on the 9th of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after completing his matric. In 1960, he became actively…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
Nokutela Dube was the first wife of Reverend John Langalibalele Dube, the first President General of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC- later…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyHarold Rubin
Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting privately with Roza…