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Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
… Thayanayagie helped Maniben Sita to organise a batch of women resisters from the Asiatic Bazaar. The members of the … Razi Mooloo, Muniamma and Shunmugam…
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
… 421 proclaiming that passes were to be issued to Hurutshe women. A week later, Kgosi Moiloa was summoned by the NC to … his office in Zeerust and ‘was…
BiographyViolet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
… attending marches and protest actions together with other women such as Dorothy Nyembe , Kate Molale and Maggie Resha . … for the ANC from that country…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… Africa, where besides painting the portraits of important colonial personalities, he also went in quest of rural …
BiographyConstance Greaves
… for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This was the "native study". The genre …
Leonora van den Heever
… LLD from the University of Stellenbosch (1997) and the Women’s Bureau Achievement Award (1987). She was also a member of the Women’s Bureau, chairperson of…
Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and
… march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and …
South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic record in he
… South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic …
Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and
… march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and …
The Oranje-Vrouevereniging (Association of Women in the Orange Free State) is founded on Onze Rust, farm of former Pres. M.T.
… The Oranje-Vrouevereniging (Association of Women in the Orange Free State) is founded on Onze Rust, farm …
City Press reports that one suspected guerrilla was killed in a shootout with Ciskei police in October and two women are subseq
… killed in a shootout with Ciskei police in October and two women are subseq …
The women, Julia Fairbank-Smith and Gansie Louw and four-year-old Emma Wahl, is murdered on a guest farm near Niewoudtville.
… The women, Julia Fairbank-Smith and Gansie Louw and four-year-old …
Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to
… Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to …
The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) adopts a new constitution, which will allow women and all race groups as members, as long as the
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from … (AB) adopts a new constitution, which will…
Twelve people, nine women and three children, are killed in a pre-dawn attack by a group of unknown people in Masunkazane, Rich
… Twelve people, nine women and three children, are killed in a pre-dawn attack by …
Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Gen. J.P. Snyman sends a starving group of Black women, who have been encouraged by the Briti
… siege: Gen. J.P. Snyman sends a starving group of Black women, who have been encouraged by the Briti …
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… Sash and National President of the National Council of Women in Natal between 1983 and 1986. As Chairwoman of the Natal Midlands Women’s Coalition between…
Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis
… movement. During the 1870s she launched the world-wide Women’s Temperance Prayer Campaign, and in the years which … from a heart condition, in 1898. Ettie…
BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
… of her book ‘If this be treason’ and worked for the Women’s’ League. At the time Joseph was one of the accused … Joseph confirming that she was indeed a…
BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… become a member of the ANC and was sent by Committee of Women, a predecessor of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) to Copenhagen for an…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
… Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, … still kept in solitary confinement, Gumede and four other women…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
… the 1970s and the 1980s, Sister Ncube helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was elected president of the Federation of…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… of South Africa, Head Office The National Archivist Postal address: Private Bag X236, PRETORIA, 0001 Street … National Film, Video and Sound Archives The…
BiographyPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
… Witwatersrand Technikon. When the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW), an affiliate of the United Democratic Front … from 1984, she worked as a youth director…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
… in the queue to get our two cups of sugar. It was largely women: Katie White, Gladys Smith, and Hettie September. The … Home, the first institution in Cape…
ArchiveEnacting Marriage Laws: Regulating Women's Right and Sexuality in Natal 1860-1913 by Madhawi Jha
… Indian History Congress … Enacting Marriage Laws: Regulating Women's Right and Sexuality in Natal 1860-1913 by Madhawi Jha …
BiographySindiwe Magona
… pen literary works, to initiate writers’ conferences, lead women’s rights advocacy groups and write children’s … and Femina. She is also recognised for her…
BiographyCharles Sidney Groves
… of a series of windows for Smuts Hall on themes from early colonial histon In 1938 he designed a window with the Coat of …
BiographyRichard Molete
… now North West Province] that protested against passes for women. In 1957, Molete, also from Lichtenburg, came to the …
For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives
… For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on …