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UDF Poster ‘Declaration of the United Democratic Front’ by UDF, 1983, South Africa
ArchiveThe Queen who longs for home by David Madingwane (SPEAK), November 1993, Johannesburg
William Henry Brann, SA cricket player (1922-1923), is born in Port Elizabeth.
ArchiveDiscussions between South African and United States delegations: Washington, 17-19 March 1983
Minutes of a meeting between delegates representating South African and the United State of America, to discuss international relations between the Soviet…
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The League of Nations, established in 1919, holds its first meeting in London.
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… Gandhi leaves for India. He breaks ties with his father. 1913 Women become active participants in the Satyagraha …
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English “Sailors gag on stinking meat, children refuse to go to school. No one…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia was born on 28 March 1924 at Coedmore Road, Bellair, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Natoo Babenia’s political activism…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years since the leadership of the South African liberation movement was arrested at Rivonia. Three months later the…
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 20 May 1983, Volume 76
Transcript of evidence (continued from 17, 18, 19 and 20 May 1983) from Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 11 May 1983, Volume 66
Transcript of evidence (continued from 9 and10 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the Commission of Justice and Reconciliation in the SA Council of…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… 1913 15 June, Trevor Huddleston is born in Chaucer Road, …
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
Autshumao also known as Herry the strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English…
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp was born in Carolina, Mpumalanga, 1907. She was a daughter of Bertha Everard, had a brief career cut short by her death in a…
BiographyMoritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein
Manu Herbstein was born in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From 1959…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
Zwelinzima Joseph Vavi was born on 20 December 1962 on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape. His father was a mineworker. Vavi has four brothers and seven sisters…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice (née Stuurman) Fula –…
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
Dr Vejaynand Indurjith Ramlakan, more popularly known as 'Vejay', was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa in 1957. He matriculated at…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… of discontent against the pass system. As early as 1913 protests against were launched in the the Orange Free …
BiographySicelo Mhlauli
Sicelo Mhlauli was born on 25 May 1949 in Cradock. After completing high school, he trained as a teacher at Lovedale College and upon completion taught at…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents arrived in Natal as indentured labourers. His…
BiographyFort Calata
Fort Calata was born on 5 November 1956. Fort’s grandfather, the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata, was the Secretary General of the African National Congress…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…