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BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
… dos Santos and Joe Louw were arrested under the Immorality Act . They were charged and went to trial. Due to a lack of concrete evidence the pair was found…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… his primary school teacher’s diploma. From the age of 17, Fula worked as a clerk, miner, and labourer on two … at a local furniture factory. After the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the National Women’s Day Celebrations: Groblersdal, Limpopo 9th August 2005
… Programme Director, Ms. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Premier of Limpopo, Sello Moloto, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, … in the national parliament is 32,75%,…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the … We meet 100 years since the promulgation of the 1913 Land Act, which dramatically…
Phyllis Altman
… after graduation. While studying at the University of the Witwatersrand she took part in student demonstrations against the Greyshirts and the bulldozing of…
Biography of Thamsanga Mnyele by Owen Dulik
… This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … Biography of Thamsanga Mnyele by Owen Dulik …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… successive governments since shortly after the founding of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The … impact on the Coloured population…
Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Communist…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you fully conscious of the historic significance of this moment. South Africa has … as a nation to higher forms of…
Declaration of principles adopted at the foundation conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, on 5 march 1955, and included as a preamble to its constitution
… Declaration of principles adopted at the foundation conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, on 5 march 1955, and included as a preamble …
BiographyAbraham Barnett Secchoareng
… in 1924. Resigned as a teacher when the Bantu Education Act was introduced. Active in the Kimberley ANC . …
Speech on the Occasion of Installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by O. R. Tambo, 19 October 1991
… The Chairman of the Council, (2) Mr. Vice-Chancellor, (3) Members of the University Council, Members of the Senate and Heads … to succumb to the…
BiographyJack Madikane
… Robben Island prisoner Banned person. Dimbaza. Act No. 44 of 1950 Sec. 9 (1) Issued Period(s) [30 June 1972 …
BiographyNobuhle Hilary Mohapi
… Nobuhle Hillary Mohapi, the widow of Mapetla Mohapi who died in detention, was banned for five years, in 1979, under the Internal Security Act . …
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… noted with sadness the violent protests at the University of Fort Hare that have resulted in the academic programme being abruptly halted. The Chairperson of…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 November 1945. South Africa was one of the original 51 founding members of the UN from…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). In 1930 the … against any potential violence…
EventList of detainees is released
… government, for the first time, released the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Internal Security Act (ISA) since its…
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… The trial of 12 SASO and BPC leaders detained since September 1974. The charge sheet consisted of 81 pages. The 12 are accused of participating in terrorist …
Challenges of Leadership in the Current Phase, 1 July 1997
… Introductlon One of the tasks the National Conference is charged with is the … Indeed, as we alter our social environment through the act of social…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
… when Mashinini was 14, and she was forced to drop out of school and go to work. At age 17, she married, and went on to give birth to six children, three of…
BiographyGladys Thomas
… easy for Thomas because it meant she would encounter a lot of challenges like being denied an opportunity for further education as a consequence of being a…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. Source: P. Joyce (2000), … to the introduction of the Asiatic Land…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
… de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway … he was the Minister…
BiographyJ B Marks
… his mother, a midwife. His father was a staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1919, his parents … African National Congress (ANC) and…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in … Union (GWU) under Solly Sachs, and soon…
Aaron Khoza
… was detained on 9 December 1976 in Krugersdorp in terms of section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act. He was transferred to Pietermarizburg prison on 1 March …
BiographyShapurji Jivanji Randeria
… 1900. He had passed the senior book-keeping examinations of the London Chamber of Commerce in Bombay prior to his arrival. After arriving in … Preservation…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke IN THE LATE … had taken place that it immediately passed the Disarmament Act,…
BiographyMuntu Myeza
… where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school education at Orlando West High … for the Transvaal and South Africa…