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BiographyElliot Shabangu
Shabangu was an active organiser at the street level for the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in Dube,…
BiographyFihla Christmas Tinto
Tinto was born on Christmas day on 25 December 1925 in the Mqanduli district of the former Transkei, now part of Eastern Cape Province. His involvement in…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
Jacqueline Daane was born on 17 December 1937. A White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when she adopted a mute Black boy (6). She…
BiographyJohannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape
Stanza Bopape was born on 26 April 1961 in Mamelodi East. He began high school studies at Rebalelaka Secondary. He decided to move to Mamelodi High where he…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
Suzanne (‘Zan’) Louw was born in Cape Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the…
Clarence Lucky Payi
Clarence Lucky Payi was hanged on 9 September 1986, along with Sipho Xulu and Andrew Zondo at Pretoria Central Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the…
BiographyEphraim Ziqubu
Ephraim Ziqubu was born in 1948 in Rorkes Drift, Natal. Ziqubu received his training at Rorke\'s Drift. In 1969 he was employed as a potter. He joined…
BiographySelby Bangani Ngcobo
Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and saddler, Ngcobo studied at Adams…
BiographyDr. Susan Vosloo
Dr Vosloo was South Africa's first female heart surgeon. She joined the heart team at the Groote Schuur hospital in 1984, and completed her training in 1988…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… was the early release of his co-accused and on 15 October 1989, after 26 years in prison, Rivonia trialist’s Walter …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… as a messenger at Nedbank until he went on pension in 1989. On returning to his hometown in 1991, Mamagobo …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… on 16 June, in commemoration of Soweto Day . By the end of 1989, Eleanor was living in London with the children while …
ArchiveStudent organisation and political resistance in South Africa: an analysis of the Congress of South African Students, 1979-1985
Honours thesis in Political Science submitted to the University of Cape Town by Tshediso Matona.
Former State President Marais Viljoen, the country’s last ceremonial state president (1979-1984) dies as a result of heart fa
BiographyDorothy Adams
… she married Frank Williams who was a peace campaigner. In 1989, Adams, who was now based at the University of London’s …
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
JT Gumede - Lloyd George, 1 December 1919 .INTRODUCTIONAn important thrust of this chapter concerns the struggles within Black politics over methods used to…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT N.R. MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT - 6 FEBRUARY 1998 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; honourable…
BiographyJoe Mkhwanazi
Joe Mkhwanazi was born on 8 March 1928 in Mandlanzini at the Empangeni District in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). After matriculating at Dumisa Secondary School,…
Ministers in the 1999 National Assembly of the South African Parliament
Desmond Tutu’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, December 1984, Oslo, Norway
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArchiveSouth Africa no longer blamed for all Africa's ills 1989 - 1990
… South Africa no longer blamed for all Africa's ills 1989 - 1990 … South Africa no longer blamed for all Africa's ills 1989 - 1990 …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
Frances Rix Ames was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), on 20 April 1920. Her father deserted the family when she was still an infant, leaving her…
BiographyGuy Tillim
Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…
BiographyClive Van den Berg
Van den Berg Clive was born in Zambia. He studied at UN(P) and obtained a BA(FA). He lectured in Art History at UN(P) in 1982. From 1983 he was a lecturer at…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some…
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated…