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BiographyPercival Mdala
… to close.Percy - for many years the only properly trained black educationalist in Knysna - transferred to Thembelitsha … retired within a year. He remained…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
… the view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African government's response to … between HIV and AIDS formed part of…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… the view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African government’s response to … between HIV and AIDS formed part of…
ArchiveNational Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
BiographyNowongile Cynthia Molo
… awards. She currently serves as a council member for Black Economic Empowerment at U-Vimba Bank. Molo is also the …
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… Ishmael Mkhabela began his political activism in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). After the BCM was banned, … on 04 October 2011]|Mzamane MV, Maaba B…
BiographyThemba Godi
… to his father Godi found a book by Tom Lodge entitled, “Black Politics in South Africa”. This became the first piece …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… entered public life in 1904 when he became the first black person to be elected to the Cape Town City Council. … hundred branches by 1910, making it the…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… published a poster condemning mixed marriages depicting a Black man and White woman living in poverty. Jews were also … of Native Affairs. He began to slowly…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… Africa in 1901, Maxeke as one of South Africa's first Black woman graduates. Maxeke was greatly influenced by AMEC … the ‘woman question'. As an early…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
… he noticed that white French women refused to dance with Black soldiers who fought to free them from Nazi occupation. … Frantz wrote a thesis titled ‘The…
BiographyMyron Peter
… The ASH was part of the county wide initiative of black activists in the 1970s undertaking self-reliance programmes spearheaded by the Black Community…
BiographyReggie Williams
… a year before he was assassinated. His struggles as a black individual growing up in America shared relations to the struggles that millions of black people…
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… - I left the Party in 1936. Surely I must have changed my viewpoint in the interval. I am sorry that Time Longer than … -I don't think there is any…
BiographyJimi Matthews
… of protest against the impossible educational methods that black students were exposed to. Thereafter he moved between … exhibition in London which sought…
BiographyThabo Motene Marera
… Musica that they made him a director. There were not many black directors at the time and it was an uphill task … doors not only for himself but also for all…
BiographyHudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
… homeland’ of Gazankulu. The apartheid government wanted Black and White people to live separately, so they set certain areas apart for Black people. Thus it…
BiographyPatricia Jobodwana
… Jobodwana was the first and youngest Black woman to graduate from a South African university. She … Youngest Black women to graduate from a South African…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
… instrumental in organising the interim structure of the Black People’s Convention (BPC) before its official launch. … he served on Robben Island . Mangena…
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
… he found a newspaper under the title “Imvo Zabantsundu” (Black Opinion). This was the newspaper that Jabavu had … African progress.Jabavu was highly…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… he gained his B.A. degree in journalism, he was the first black South African to be awarded a B.A. through private study at Unisa and the first black South…
BiographyCarol Moses
… campuses. In 1991, she was elected as the union's first black woman president. In addition, she worked for the … Democratic Front and the African National…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
… in Germiston. In 1963, when representatives of the four black mission churches of the Dutch Reformed Church decided …
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
… , Kwa-Khaya Lendaba. He was severely criticised by many Black people who misunderstood his intentions and accused him … (2003), and Woman of Four Paths:…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
… he obtained his BSc degree in 1978. In 1976 he joined the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) later becoming branch … soon perceived a need for the struggle…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
… title Bantu-Past and Present.Though the book was about Black South Africans in general, the primary focus was the … ability with a large practice serving…
BiographyPierre Jacy Fourie
… He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus … on 1 December 1973 was the first…
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
… Angeles, USA (group). University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA (Black Heritage Exhibition). |981: University of Omaha; … of the World Competition, USA (first prize…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… became the Chair of the Urban Training Project (UTP), a Black trade union service group in Johannesburg at the time … convnced him there was work to be…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority. Gordimer was educated at a convent school and … late in her life. She remembered…