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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape
… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) became invovled in politics at the young age of 13 and by the time he was 15 … massacre of 1960. When he finished school at…
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
… Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured … of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the 1950s. In 1962…
BiographyJonathan Neil Rhodes
… Jonathan Neil Rhodes, better known as Jonty, was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 July 1969. He grew up in the picturesque Pietermaritzburg town…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
… Jonas Mosa Gwangwa was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many … helped him gain some recognition. Sadly, it disbanded in…
Afrikaner
… discovered the sea passage to the East round Cape Point in 1488 and in the course of their visits, came into contact with the … the Voortrekker Monument on…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
… of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996 in its Final Report. The TRC was committed to correcting the … those who went missing between March…
EventAfrican Mineworkers' strike starts
… Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), which was active in distributing pamphlets and other material related to the … Fifty-one persons, mainly Communists,…
BiographyJohn A. Mavuso
… Born in 1926 Mavuso worked at different times as a messenger and a … executive committee from 1955 to 1956 and was active in the Alexandra branch in…
BiographyBarney William Ngakane
… After living for some time in Orlando Township, Johannesburg , Barney William Ngakane … where he served as chairman of a Liberal Party branch in the early…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… process of building a better life for all. With the ANC in local government together we can take sure this happens … 2. A start has been made 2.1 Since the…
PlaceLangeberg Municipality
… located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape Province. The Langeberg Municipal Area … more equitable Communities." This…
PlaceTsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape
… known as: ' the Garden Route '. This region is found in the Southern Cape of South Africa. The Park incorporates … a remote mountainous region with secluded…
BiographyThobile Mpumza
… Thobile Mpumza (26) was from Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009.He was dismissed in May 2011 after taking part in an…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and spiritual…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
… Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his … “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after … of the future.' Brenda went to live with…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
… National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and educated at Fort Hare. He taught in the Cape and the…
BiographyLungile Kepe
… Born in 1927 Kepe worked as a labourer. He took part in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of … Congress meetings without permits. Trade…
BiographyFezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)
… or Accuser X. Her family spent much of her early life in exile. Her father, Judson Khuzwayo , was the Chief … Representative of the African National Congress…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
… Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about …
BiographyRosa Hope
… Old Miii was shown on the SASA 35th Annual Exhibition in 1937, and acquired by the SANG, as noted by critic Melvin … at the Slade and Central Schools of Art,…
BiographyDinah Molefe
… Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between … Like Elizabeth Mbatha (q.v.) she trained as a potter in the Ceramic…
Fenuel Mogatusi
… Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was … inquest or post…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… The Anti-CAD and the Local Committee of the NEUM, opposed in principle to ad hoc committees and ad hoc campaigns which … to demonstrate that, although it was…
BiographyGabriel Kee Kuboni
… He was born in Durban. From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Lourenco Marques … , which is now lost. He received no formal training in art and was self-trained…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and…
BiographyMary Susan Malahlela-Xakana
… Mary Susan Malahele-Xakana was born in Polokwane (then Pietersburg). Her father had been … the first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South…
BiographyHendrik Andries Hanekom
… he matriculated. He never received theatrical training in his youth. Hanekom was first employed as a municipal official in the town of his birth and was…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
… Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the…