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The IFP have issued a new Mission Statement calling for a ‘social market economy’ following a three-day National Council worksh
… The IFP have issued a new Mission Statement calling for a ‘social market economy’ …
A new department of the T.U.C. (Transvaal University College, situated in Johannesburg), consisting of the arts and science cou
… A new department of the T.U.C. (Transvaal University College, …
State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, centred on privatisation, deregu
… State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, …
With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa.
… With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences …
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… participated in the international conference on women in New York. At the time of her death, Ngubane was closely … African belief systems. Prof. Harriet…
BiographyTlou Matlala
Tlou Matlala was banished on 11 June 1952 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo] to Zwelitsha Native Reserve, King…
BiographyRustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu
… He arrived in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) at the age of seventeen, worked in an aerated waters company, and …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… of Ilanga Lase Natal in the 1940s. From a very early age, Herbert was exposed to the sharp class and racial … and above all it is a literature. What part…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… 1929, saw the world's economy go into recession as the New York Stock Exchange collapsed and saw shocked investors … Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York…
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
… as an all-rounder to represent Free State. At the age of 21, he was appointed captain of the team. He was a …
ArchiveOut of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
… Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: … Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack…
BiographyEsther Barsel
… to the struggle of the South African people from an early age, joining the Young Communist League (YCL) at just … Unions (COSATU) in Johannesburg, Gauteng…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… character building and some formal subjects. From an early age Manilal learnt to work in the printing press at … he served 38 days (of a 50 day sentence) in…
BiographyThemba Godi
… politically aware when he was in his early teens at the age of 13. During one of visits to his father Godi found a … this contributed to his political…
BiographyHelen Elizabeth Martins
… to fail her. On a cold winters' morning in 1976, at the age of seventy-eight, Helen Martins took her own life by …
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
… then went to live in Port Alfred for some months. At the age of 85, he died in Grahamstown. His works are seen as …
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
… Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African …
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
… in Vosloorus where he passed away five days later at the age of 65. A memorial service was held on 26 October 2016 at …
BiographyVera Ponnen
… Canada, where she died the 1st of March 1979, at the age of 64. …
BiographyFrances Baard
… to live until her death in 1997. In August 1983, at the age of 74 she was one of the honorary patrons speakers that …
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
… Son of two anti-apartheid lawyers, he learned at an early age to question structural impositions. In 1976, he attained …
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… and was employed by the Chamber of Mines to come up with a new system of labour relations. The mining bosses were … and policies of the NEUM and became a…
BiographyCarol Moses
… Their daughter Khanyisa died in a car accident at the age of eight in 1995. Moses died at the age of 50 after a short illness following colon surgery. Her …
BiographyNkosiyakhe Amos Masondo
… to Johannesburg in stages,Masondo began school at the age of ten in Soweto.In the 1970s Masondo came under the …
BiographySonja Schlesin
… at the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1903 at the age of 15. He was to discover that she had exceptional speed … but eventually retired from…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… with Africa using the African Union's programme of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), which this … the 62nd session of the United Nations’…
BiographySedick Isaacs
… income by undertaking embroidery work. From an early age, Isaacs was fascinated with science and was engaged in … of oppression. This continued up to high…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… had eleven children and made them all go to church. By the age of fourteen or fifteen Solomon had become a street … interested in politics and began…
BiographyJames Kantor
… did not like the thuggish behaviour and arrogance of the new Special Branch police. As a Jew, he was aware of the … on to have another daughter Lara, in 1968…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… Limpopo, on the evening of 27th October, 2008 at the ripe age of eighty-eight. Mphahlele was the illustrious author of … Minister of Native Affairs, had…