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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…
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…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba had … younger and one older than her…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education augur well - to be a sign that something good is … more land to the reserves that had been…
BiographyHerbert Mekutu
… Detained during the 1960 State of Emergency . Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . Prohibited from attending gatherings. Forbidden from …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… Wilbur Smith, that great chronicler of the White Man's Burden in Africa, was arguably at his … 1972 novel, The Sunbird. In it, he narrates the allegory of…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor … witnessed the military defeat and…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… sunk. As a result 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native … Contingent. On 9 March 1917, the…
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… sunk. As a result 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native … Contingent. On 9 March 1917, the…
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… and he credited him for instilling in him an informed love of books. At the age of 16, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University … he occupied the…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months…
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,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940 - 1949 1940 Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr … Magistrate of Johannesburg, accuses…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… On 4 January 1948, the National Flag of the Union of South Africa was hoisted on Prince Edward Island. Prince … by Section Six of the Royal Executive…
EventThe official launch of the SABC
… General James Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog, prime minister of South Africa, ordered an official investigation into all aspects of Broadcasting in South Africa…
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a … entering the country, as he was not accompanied by any one of…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape. He read for a Bachelor of Arts degree with the University of Fort Hare. While still studying, Mosaka became involved … was…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, "Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930 … employing actual serf lahour. The…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I … even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
… in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In…
BiographyJeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
… In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the University of Zululand to study law. On campus he joined the Black … being…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of … African people, when he opened the sixth…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her … Primary School and then the Public Secondary School, both of…
BiographyBarend de Wet
… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible freedoms…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
… were subjected to in the old Romanov empire. At the age of four, Hirson was enrolled at the Talmud Torah, a Hebrew … and studied as a part-time student at…
Opening address by CDE Nelson Mandela on the occassion of the signing of a statement of intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research and Policy formulation
… Opening address by CDE Nelson Mandela on the occassion of the signing of a statement of intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research …
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
… 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…
"Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… "Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of…
BiographyRita Alice Ndzanga
… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near … in Johannesburg and they lived in…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… pages the reader will find what has been termed " Bill of Rights " and " The Atlantic Charter from the African’s … African people, when he opened the sixth…