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Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… to present this commemorative lecture in recognition of a truly extraordinary human being, the late Abdelwahab … stacked against the Palestinians. It…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of Dispossession between the Khoi-San of the colonial ……
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… the New National Party (NNP), was disbanded and some of its members joined the ANC. NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk became a member of the ANC and a…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… In the months after I started my incessant round of speaking engagements in 1985 I found that there was a … appeal to me are the ones that say that the great…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… compromise proposal it had tabled in the closing moments of CODESA II. This was followed by a National Policy … reached at CODESA and provided guidelines for…
PlaceNamibia
… a former German colony, is situated towards the north west of South Africa. It is predominately covered by the Namib … the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão, who…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… me so long to find the road to what must surely be one of the highest peaks of my whole life. On that day I walked with seven other women … educating others…
Concluding Remarks
… the impression is given that protest art is a phenomenon of the Eighties, or that Soweto 1976 heralded the first wave of overt political opposition in art…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked … control over the political, economic and…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson The existence of a large number of unskilled and unemployed …
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English…
The Pioneers
… The artworks presented in this section of the exhibition had their historical beginnings in the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. These beginnings took place…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… educationist and former lecturer at the University of Fort Hare. PRINCE BISMARCK once said that one-third of German university students broke down from…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State University…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina Swart (nee … held in the concentration camp at Winburg…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and … met Makhanda, described him: “We found…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
Vella Pillay
… This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his 80th birthday party held on … House, Highgate, London. Vella Pillay was born on the 8th of…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his … Murray was apprenticed to the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had … 1975, she married Samora Machel , the…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree…
BiographyShaka Zulu
… was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian … in a Zulu kingdom which survived not…
BiographyJoe Slovo
… 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg . Slovo … clerk for a chemist while studying…
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
… 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained … Johannesburg Bar. A keen soccer…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
… Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was … Zambia. During this time his father was the…