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BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
… Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… have been throughout the 101 years that the SACP has been in existence. This article presents some key instances of the … Communist Party: May Day: Workers…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what became Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. He was born ca. … African military leader after the Zulu…
Address by Deputy President Thabo MBeki at the Conference on Infrastructure Investment, 28-29 March 1996
… investment. This conference is a historic moment in our interaction with the private sector regarding the … especially shortages that arose after the January…
BiographyGavin Jantjes
… Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's … received a DAAD scholarship to undertake a Master’s degree in the…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyAri Sitas
… one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a professor and the head of the Sociology Department at UCT, a post he took…
BiographyBheki Myeni
… Bheki Myeni was born on 10 October 1954 in Hlabisa, Natal. Myeni's parents died when he was a young … his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni…
BiographyPetrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers
… Fanie de Villiers was born on the 13th October 1964 in Vereeniging. In 1985 he started playing for the Northern Transvaal cricket team and in the 1992/93…
BiographyEsther Susanna Mentz
… some time making Afrikaans records and teaching singing. In 1934 she went to Germany to study singing and acting and returned to South Africa in 1937. After…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
… Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at … for election to the…
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… Willem Petrus Esterhuyse (Willie) Esterhuyse was born in 1936 in Laingsburg, Western Province (now Western Cape), on his … where after a sabbatical of two…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
… (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
… Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of … to form his own team, to the disapproval of many in the…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of South Africa’s arid interior … of Cape Town, his first…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and … the racist apartheid system to a…
David Pratt
… and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the United Kingdom to Johannesburg, South Africa when … his adult life for psychiatric treatment. He…
BiographySushila Gandhi
… Sushila Mashruwallah was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was …
BiographyClive Zamani Xaba
… Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art … run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he started…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
… Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join … Bantu Methodist Church, of…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Webster
… University Education Diploma from Rhodes University, an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, … his significant contribution to…
PlaceWalvis Bay, Namibia
… wind and waves by the long arm of Pelican Point (SHOWN IN PICTURE). With a tidal lagoon filled with seabirds and … Walvis Bay is not part of South Africa, it…
PlaceParliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town
… Parliament in Cape Town , plays a vital role in the Legislative policies of Government and plays a direct … South Africa held its first democratic election…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… the land. 1658 28 March, 170 slaves arrive at the Cape in the Dutch ship The Amersfoort. They are the first shipment … gives rise to two major educational…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
… unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was…
BiographySelby Themba Ngendane
… Selby Themba Ngendane was born about 1929 in the Eastern Cape and attended Fort Hare, where he was active in the African National Congress Youth League…
BiographyNosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
… Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi was born on 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu ( Western Cape ). She was the Deputy President … Ntwanambi joined the National Council…
BiographyCecil Sols
… with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities … empower young black South Africans…
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…
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
… Guru Kistnasamy was born on 28 December 1947 in Felixton, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father, … section that catered for the overflow of…