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2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… 2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned …
Paul Simon starts his tour in South Africa.
… Paul Simon starts his tour in South Africa. …
King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho regains his throne.
… King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho regains his throne. …
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He … of national and class oppression. From the age of 18…
BiographyMizream Maseko
… Mizriam, Mizram) was born on 10 June 1927. Maseko began his career as a house painter after completing his studies in Transvaal. He was inspired by the…
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… civilian government, and he was named the new President. His reign was marked by increasing levels of corruption and … stages, torture and murder. He was…
BiographyGeorge Matthias Winkles
… to England. Pre-Raphaelitism was a formative influence on his work, as was a study trip to Paris and Antwerp in 1888. … was re-initiated, this time elected…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. During the … than 8 500 people were imprisoned for…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began his "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana. Ghana became … 1960 to the South African Parliament in Cape Town…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… formal education, circumstances forced Sebedi to seek work as a domestic worker in Johannesburg. In private, and in … she pursued her emerging sense of…
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
… of thirteen, Lubowski was sent to Stellenbosch to complete his schooling, which he did in 1970. After school, Lubowski … the University of Cape Town with a…
BiographyEnos Molapo Makhubedu
… in 1938. He grew up in Pilgrim’s Rest where he completed his higher primary school studies in 1951 at the Charles Max … where two teachers, Mrs Lekala and Mr…
BiographyAndrew Clement Verster
… radio plays. He has designed sets and costumes for operas. His work is represented in public and private collections in SA … have been published. He has…
BiographyBhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku
… he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career. His father owned a piano that he kept locked, but Mseleku’s ……
Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
… of the most daring and high-profile attacks against the apartheid state in the 1980s. From the spectacular 1980 Sasol … national liberation struggle. …
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
… at the University College of Fort Hare. Matthews completed his primary education at Lovedale School in Alice, Eastern … of the ANC Youth League in…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
… January 1911 to six weeks in prison. He requested to join his father in the first batch of Satyagrahis from Phoenix, … authorities. General Lukin was present…
Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968
… 1967, authorising the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africato … of a state of cordial relations…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
… and her two sisters, Thembi and Zanele, live and work in Milazi, Durban. Two of the seven children who are not … Early Iron-Age pot and shards (AD 600-800)…
BiographyEric Magamana Lubisi
… son and had five sisters. At the age of twelve, he and his family relocated to Mamelodi Johannesburg. Transvaal. He … Enos Makhubedu and Walter Battiss and…
BiographySindiwe Magona
… a scholarship to study for her Master’s Degree in Social Work at Columbia University in the United States of America. … many internationally prominent South…
BiographyAnele Mdizeni
… being shot in the hip by the police. Anele left behind his pregnant wife and two young children. According to his wife, Unathi Mdizeni, “Anele was an easy…
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South Africa. He was 75. His death was reported on…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family … Gandhi , who had decided to settle in South…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life…
BiographySadie Forman
… and prolific writer, who was extremely active in the anti-apartheid and communist movements. Four years later, he would … essential support to Lionel, whose…
BiographyNdabenhle William Zulu
… He has also exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is represented in public and private collections in South Africa. In 1991 he exhibited his…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
… School. “You’re never going to get a picture with that,” his father told the nine-year-old Zondi when he triumphantly … camera that he had dug out of a…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… part of the Government of National Unity (GNU). This was his part of nation building and reconciliation amongst … President Nelson Mandela announces his…