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… in the process. The British in this period annexed land too, particularly in Natal (with its accessibility to the east coast port) at times claiming … to prevail. “Native” reserves were established from as early as 1848 in Natal by Theophilus Shepstone  and these …

… continue to dominate all aspects of South African society. Its ideology of "baaskap", or "white power", propounded that … did not feature high on the Government agenda. By the early 1960s it had identified nine separate "ethnic" groups …

… until December 1926 when he was expelled from the ICU in its clash with the CPSA. In 1928 he was elected …

… organisation and they would  assist when it worked in its constituency. In 1958, the Congress Alliance called for a … as toilets. They slept on the floor. They were awoken early in the morning and had their heads shaved off all their …

…  She learnt the power of the written and spoken word at an early age, and over the years developed a strong command of … Becoming an activist Fatima’s political activism started early. In 1944, when she was 16 years old and a student of …

… , Kimberley and Potchefstroom, ending in Johannesburg in early 2014.   SOURCES   Largely, Sibande’s work draws …

… and is as such context-driven: 'I think that my early work in newspapers is quite formative in my art work …

… died at Kuruman Hospital in the Northern Cape hospital early on Wednesday, 25 March following a period of ill …

… of South Africa (CPSA), both of which he joined in the early 1940s. Arnold Selby was elected Secretary of the …

… the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin’s family were ardent supporters of the … Hospital in Pretoria. Apartheid South Africa is known for its use of psychiatry to discredit activists by pathologizing … them, a practice that extended to the army’s treatment of its conscripts. Ward 22 was infamous as the ‘loony bin’ for …

… African National Congress  (ANC) on full-time basis at its London office in 1975 as researcher in the ANC Department … National Preparatory Committee, which was preparing for its major policy conference in Kwabe, Botswana. At this … (1990) marked a refreshing departure for an ANC scholar in its critical appraisal of Soviet policy from a left …

… against bantu education. When the committee outlined its demands in a memo to the Ministers of Co-operation and … and 400 000 children boycotted schools in support of its demands. On 9 November 1984 Dlamini was detained and held … range of extra-parliamentary groupings, was banned and its organisers, including Dlamini, restricted. He was …

… of King Kong opened in 1962 it included Rathebe in its illustrious line-up. That production eventually took the … townships and with a cultural landscape largely denuded of its best talent, authentic cultural expression went into …

… Minister, DF Malan , who lead the National Party with its policy of apartheid, to power in 1948, and  Lumumba … returned to Zimbabwe in 1981, after the country attained its independence. She became a professional singer once again …

… visited the Yugoslav republics as first Croatia achieved its bloody independence and then as Bosnia struggled to its own patchwork destiny. In 1994  The Star 's chief …

… District Six , where under the guidance and leadership of its founder, Mrs Southernholt, young people were taught … Council opened with a performance of Verdi’s Aida , at its newly built whites-only operatic venue, the Nico Malan …

… South African Communist Party  (CPSA), she was serving on its committee until 1946. Hilda met Lionel (Rusty) Bernstein … also a founder of the South African Peace Council and was its national secretary until the organisation’s banning. As a …

… Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July … the Transvaal College of Education, to remove reference to its ethnic identification. At college the Students … an active member of SASO, and as SRC president attended its first formation school at Wilgespruit, near Roodepoort, …

… the Africanist movement in Orlando township and became its secretary about 1955. At the Pan Africanist Congress's …

… he joined the Progressive Party and was later a member of its provincial executive committee in the Transvaal. In 1963 …

… (a former senate and second house of Parliament) since its establishment in 1998. In the fourth democratic …

… attended the Lourenco Marques High School, which changed its name first to Sibonenlo High School, and which is …

… African Congress of Democrats and became the Secretary of its Natal Branch in 1954.  He was also Chairman of the CoD in …

… able to use my photography to investigate my country and its people. I find it motivating that my photographs might …

… International Training Institute and Programme, as well as its affiliate, the Development for Human Rights. She worked …

… The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The … impression on many university and high school students. As early as the late 1960s, university students, who were to … Biko. Biko had diagnosed why Black South Africans were too weak to free themselves years after most of Africa had …

… After various revisions and amendments the society took its present form ... [and has] ... now become a recognised … to take a more sympathetic view of its history, and its early history in particular. In many ways the Society became … Naude (qv.) or Charles Peers ((jr.)(No. 81) to paint on too intimate a scale: "We have had to comment at times on the …

… formed a legal partnership which lasted until Mangena's early death.The firm was named Mangena and Seme …

… Museum, Pretoria. It was there that he began to search for early hominids, seeking more specimens of Dart's spectacular …