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ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… Africans in the Transvaal was considered the most onerous. 1926 The Balfour Declaration is adopted and the Union of South Africa, along …
BiographySheila Weinberg
… which based its objectives on the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Human Rights. She wrote a bulletin detailing …
Speech by Oliver Tambo on signing Declaration, on behalf of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, adhering to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977, at the headquarters of International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 28 November 1980
… Speech by Oliver Tambo on signing Declaration, on behalf of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, …
BiographyMngqingo Pikani
… could be inflicted to persons in authority and a definite declaration of war.’The people supported him and booed the …
BiographyAlfred Msutu
Alfred Msutu was appointed Chief of Tyefu Location in the Peddie district, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] in January 1905. He was, however, suspended…
BiographyBoas Moiloa
Boas Moiloa, from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal [North West Province] is described by Advocate George Bizos’ as ‘a dignified, elderly…
BiographyEdson Sithole
Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… at Kliptown. Bopape was arrested again following the declaration of the State of Emergency after the Sharpeville …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… pamphlets in Durban against the Nationalist Government’s declaration of South Africa as a republic. By 1961, Eleanor …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… to foreign rule and calls for the freedom of India. 1926 Prime Minister General Barry Hertzog introduces a Bill … within the British Empire and its…
BiographyAlfred Mangena
Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… shootings of June 16, he said: “We see it as an official declaration of war on the black students by our …
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
Professor Firoz Cachalia holds a BA degree, a BA (Hons) degree, an LLB and a Higher Diploma in Company Law from Witwatersrand University. Cachalia is currently…
BiographyGeorge Arthur Heard
… Africa to enter the war on the Allied side. After the declaration of war, he exposed what he claimed were security …
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… organise meetings fairly freely. However, the government’s declaration of a State of Emergency throughout the early …
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… of the ANC met in Johannesburg at the end of October 1926 to discuss Hertzog’s four Bills. The chair was occupied … had been destroyed by the latter’s…
BiographyLewis Baker
Lewis Baker was married to Villa Baker. He was a civil rights lawyer, and a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). The couple continued their…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
Joseph Faniso Mati was born on a farm near Adelaide, Eastern Cape and grew up in Port Elizabeth. During high school, teachers encouraged students to attend…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… Britain which was against Ian Smith’s 1965 unilateral declaration of independence (UDI). A number of conflicts and … killed. The violence against the…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… should be granted to the Khoisan peoples under the UN declaration of 2007 on indigenous rights, which have not been …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Brighton’s central square against Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Rhodesia. In October 1966 … Government of the Organisation of African…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… At Steenbokfontein on 29 October 1914, Beyers issued a declaration on behalf of himself and De Wet that they were to …
BiographyJames la Guma
… (CPSA) in 1925 and was elected to its Central Committee in 1926. Being one of Kadalie's closest lieutenants, he went to … there. However, he returned to Cape…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… and the Reformed tradition. The alliance adopted the Declaration on Racism, suspended South Africa's white Dutch …
BiographyNana Sita
… Today is Human Rights Day - the day on which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was accepted by the world at the …
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… President of the Transvaal Indian Congress, signed a joint declaration of cooperation on March 9, 1947 in a bid to …