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Jacob Zungwane Mashabane
… a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at the Johannesburg Fort after being detained … held under was undisclosed.Mr…
George Montsioa
… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural … Court of South Africa. He is third African Barrister in South Africa. Mr…
BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
… John Hlatywayo was born in 1928, Chipinge, Rhodesia. Hlatywayo originally trained as … Hlatywayo travelled to Rhodesia and was given a studio in the Rhodes…
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
… Michiel Hendrik Nesser was born on 28 July 1874 in Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from … by these authors he began writing verse, and…
BiographyKhanare Elais Monesa
… Khanare Elais Monesa (36) was from Maseru in Lesotho. He started working in the mines in 1999. After working at two previous mines, he started …
BiographyJackson Lehupa
… Jackson Lehupa (48) was from Mount Fletcher in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2007. … Mr Lehupa was killed at scene 1, after being shot…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… and Transkei. Many of South Africa's leaders were born in the Eastern Cape, like Thabo Mbeki , Nelson Mandela and … , English Premier : Ms Noxolo Kiviet…
BiographySiphiwo Maxwell “Congress” Mthimkhulu
… Mthimkhulu was born on the 23 March 1960. He grew up in Njoli Street, Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth. His political activism began with him joining the…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 years ago. In 1955, a section of the 1912 ANC leadership was captured by … class. Despite the background of racial…
BiographyC. M Kobus
… (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the Cape before qualifying as a lawyer in 1954. In the mid-1950s he served as national…
BiographyHenry Mshololo
… violins and sculptures of angels. He has participated in group exhibitions and is represented in public and private galleries in South Africa. …
BiographySir. Richard Bourke
… Richard Bourke was born on 4 May 1777 in Dublin, Ireland. During his army career he was promoted to … the civil and judicial establishment of the Cape Colony…
BiographyJoan Morice
… South Africa’s first qualified veterinarian, was born in Barberton in 1904. She completed the first two years of pre-veterinary … facility. She received he…
BiographyLucky Sibiya
… Lucky Sibiya was born in 1942 in Vryheid, Natal. Sibiya was educated at St Peter's … He was given guidance by Cecil Skotnes and Bill Ainslie. In 1974 he…
BiographyMarthinus Wessel Pretorius
… Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was born in September 17, 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, … founder of…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life. The … the policy of aggression towards…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa Durban, 17 July 1998
… Guests; When I met with you at your annual conference in Umtata in 1994, we were all still celebrating the fresh victory of …
BiographyMargaret Gazo
… protesting against the extension of the pass laws to women in 1956. At the time, Gazo lived in Payneville, Springs, east of Johannesburg, Transvaal (now ……
BiographyThomas Trevor (Tommy) Motswai
… Tommy Motswai was born on 27 May 1963 in Johannesburg. Although he was born deaf he ultimately … portraying the world around him on paper with pastels. In…
BiographyDr Irvin Khoza
… known as the “Iron Duke”, was born on 27 January 1948 in Alexandra Township. He began his education at the Roma Mission School in Alexandra before attending…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… African Communist Party When South African communists met in Cape Town 65 years ago they planted the first seed in our … position of four companies (Anglo…
Millicent Fawcett
… was sent over from Britain during the Anglo Boer War in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration camps and then to give advice to the … British…
BiographyRussel Botman
… Russel Botman was born on 18 October 1953 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). … “coloured” Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sending-Kerk …
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
… Johannes Thelejane (55) was from Pabellong, Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in October 2011. On 16 August 2012 Mr Thelejane was…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck on the Rand. Moreover, … there was room for European businessmen…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… The increasing social unrest in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on … the MPNF ratified…
BiographyRegina Buthelezi
… on exhibitions arranged by the ELC Art and Craft Centre in major South African art museums. She is represented in public and private art collections in South…
BiographyRev. Joseph J Doke
… Became acquainted with Gandhi during the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg … He and his wife nursed Gandhi after an…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… is a South African domestic worker for a wealthy family in Cape Town; when asked in 2004 about the world that the domestic workers lived in … of Labour)…
BiographyStephen Mini
… leaders of the Natal Native Congress from its founding in 1900 -1901. He became its president in 1927 after a split in which he was allied with J. T. Gumede…