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List of deaths in detention
… those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the government used to quell … List of deaths in detention …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… While on a choir trip to the United States (US) Institute of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) with the … Bantu Women's League of the South…
BiographyViola Hashe
… In the early 1950s she was elected Assistant Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and the Dairy Workers Union. Hashe also joined the African National…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. … training and for participating in…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… meetings with his Father, Ebrahim Dinat, who was a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) … Dinat…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, … Broederbond to put his idea in motion. Before the congress, on 12 August 1933,…
BiographyBafana Cyril Dlamini
… in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His … Steven Dlamini was a member of the African…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… and after, did not cease to work with the African National Congress (ANC) to end apartheid and write as well as encourage others to write to show the…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham Mangali Xuma and Elizabeth Cupase Xuma, devout … position of assistant treasurer of the…
Sadecque Variava
… Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven siblings. His father held various jobs and was very … among others. When Mewa Ramgobin…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In 1943, he helped A. B. Xuma revise the…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… a younger brother, William, and three or more sisters, two of them named Mina and Joyce. It seems they were all given … Makanya, who later became the…
BiographyMweli Skota
… court interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one of the founders of the ANC newspaper, Abantu-Batho, and … launch African newspapers. South…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… to the direction the country was taking. The beginning of a sustained and violent uprising in the townships of the Vaal Triangle in September 1984 – at…
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… Before the establishment of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998 (RCMA), there were many controversial and unequal … JG & Janse van…
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
… bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port Elizabeth. He became an active trade union activist, and joined the African National…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to … we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) – precipitated the…
BiographyNana Sita
… Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in … community in Pretoria. He joined the…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… outside the country, by contributing to the advancement of Black filmmaking, and after apartheid he continued that … During his life Ngakane sought to expose…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… in exile. Klug believed that South Africa was in need of a constitutional democracy that allowed for the majority to be represented by the rulers of the…
A timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… A timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan …
A timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… A timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan …
Speech by President Mandela to the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius
… Speech by President Mandela to the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius …
Message to the NEGRO people of the United States of America, September 1952
… Message to the NEGRO people of the United States of America, September 1952 …
BiographyXego Michael
… his political career in youth politics. He was a member of the Student Christian Movement(SCM) in 1974, before … where he would become a member of the…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
… early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade unionist.Gaetsewe was … Workers and the…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… African War (Anglo-Boer War 2) . After the declaration of peace he went to Pretoria where he first worked as waiter … a new constitution for the South…
History of Makhanda (previously Grahamstown)
… History of Makhanda (previously Grahamstown) …
Provinces of SA (Heritage Trail)
… Provinces of SA (Heritage Trail) …