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ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… election in April 1994. This archive presents this history in two parts, namely; Emerging African Nationalism … 1960-1994 respectively. Please note that …
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
… a book entitled A Double-Edged Sword, which outlines the history and formation of CONTRALESA. This article was written … Seara-Robitaille and forms part of…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… W.E.B. Du Bois, a staunch advocate of African culture and history, who propounded the idea that colonialism lay at the … voiced the importance of economic…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
… However, in June 1977 Mati was caught at the Golela border post with stacks of June 16 leaflets and R3,000. After a …
PlaceRwanda
… in World War I Rwanda became absorbed into the Belgian colonial empire as part of a mandate from the League of … . Rwanda gained independence from Belgium in…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… to look at the climate just before WW2. Rebellions Against Colonial Rule Before the Second World War After 1900, Europe began to introduce changes to…
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms that have been used to …
BiographyMichael Madimetja Teffo
… and ink drawings in New York at the Nassau County Black History Museum, and he received praise for the moving …
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
… variety of subjects followed by several books on military history. He was also known for his support of the development …
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… the memorial service. An exhibition at the Local Durban History Museum explores the reasons behind Zondo’s attack on … Durban Local History Museums, (2018),…
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
… possible through cunning and luck. She used her limp and history with polio to convince border patrol guards that she …
Phyllis Altman
… undergraduate degree she completed an Honours degree in History. This was followed by a year doing a teaching degree …
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… Cape Town. The report had been intercepted by the Durban postal authorities. (Merrett:42) Apr 5- Patrick Duncan, … Apr 11- Myrna Blumberg, a correspondent…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… military support to the Landdrost at Uitenhage. The post was designed to house a garrison of 380 men, which not … the eastern seaboard offered many…
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… Royal College of Physicians of London from 1983 to 1989, a post he held also with great distinction. He was a …
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… of the Treaty of Vereeniging, which ended the war. Post-war politics Merriman formed the South African Party in … TRH Davenport, The Afrikaner Bond: The…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… Island to their colleagues in exile. He appeared in the post-Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) …
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… struggle were carried over into civilian life in post-war South Africa. The Legion recruited both black and …
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… where he continued to research, write and lecture on the history and politics of South Africa and Namibia, and … Cape of Good Hope, (1993), Liberals Against…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… is one of the most extraordinary people in South African history. What is incredible is that he has been almost … much of his life being hounded out of…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… opposed to apartheid and a supporter of trade sanctions. Post-1994, trade and exchange with Mozambique were … the fastest growing cities in South Africa. As…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… which was based on Lenin’s 1920 thesis on the national and colonial question (Mkhize, 134). Alex la Guma’s early …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Party. By 1907, he was appointed Minister of Education and colonial secretary in the Botha government in the Transvaal … 31 July 2009]|Giliomee, H. and…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
… to stay before they could leave the country secretly. In post-apartheid South Africa, Mkhize has continued to serve …
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
… the Pahad brothers, who later took leading roles in the post-1994 government. At her funeral, Cheryl Carolus, then …
BiographyChief Justice Raymond Zondo
… Task Team that drafted a Labour Relations Bill for the post-apartheid era. He was then appointed as the first … Task Team that drafted the Labour Relations…
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… Post-structuralist discourse has resulted in a shift in … problematises issues surrounding the discipline of art history and art criticism, the latter being…
Esmé Berman
… acknowledgement of her contribution to South African art history, art discourse and art criticism. Later in life …
BiographyJudith Mason
… the Houston Art Festival in 1980. She taught drawing and History of Art at Witwatersrand University from 1963 until …
BiographyJabulani Sam Nhlengethwa
… themes. Among these are labour (Mine workers), political history (Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties), interiors, …