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BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… Bantu Administration and Development). He also served as Secretary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Southern Africa. In …
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… PAC in the Western Cape Province. He served as the party’s Secretary General at national level. Cassiem is the National …
Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
… as communications chief. Then, from 1972, she worked as a secretary and chairperson of various ANC branches in exile. …
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
… of the Natal Indian Congress . In 1942, Docrat became the secretary of the Liberal Study Group and the Natal Indian …
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
John (Jack) Curtis was born on 31 August 1912 in Geelong, Australia, the third of nine children. He left school at 14 to start work and help provide for the…
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
… founded the South African Heart Foundation and was also elected to the Board of Management of the South African … South African Inherited Disorders…
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… of the Liberal Party in the Cape. In 1954, he was elected to the Senate as what was then called a ‘natives’ … resulting in Apartheid in Practice in 1972…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
… was forced to retire from politics soon after he was elected Honorary Life President of the NUM. In November 2008, …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Kathrada is elected to the Young Communist League’s Johannesburg District … of the SAIC and the South African…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… 1981 with majors in Philosophy and Sociology. Siva Chetty, Secretary of the Merebank Residents' Association and a close … the miracle of a democratic South…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… communities at Dakawa and Mazimbu that were addressed by Chris Hani and Stanley Mabizela on 24 December 1989. In one of the …
Mary Matilda Brown
… and spokesperson throughout South Africa. Brown was elected by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of the Cape …
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… of the Transvaal Supreme Court in 1980. In 1985 he was elected National President of the National Institute of Crime …
BiographyRichard Feetham
… Land Titles Commission (1946”” 49). In 1938, Feetham was elected Vice Chancellor of the University of the …
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… African Academy of Science & Technology (1999). He was elected "Visiting Professor of the Year" at the University of …
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
… ANC's December 1994 congress in Bloemfontein Sigcau was elected to the organisation's national executive committee. …
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
… the Deputy President in three PAC cabinets. In 2003 he was elected President of the PAC and subsequently became the …
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
… South Africa (APDUSA) was formed. Zuleika was unanimously elected the Chairperson. Many of the members of the Durban …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… a meeting convened by the South African Communist Party (SACP) in December 1960 in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, aimed to … advocating for joint action were …
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984, Af
… a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… (NUSAS) at both higher learning institutions and was elected Vice Chairperson of the Student Representative … the College of Education in 1969. In the same…
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… and Co-operatives) between 1978 and 1984. In 1985 she was elected as adviser to the International Labour Office (United … Ngubane has been a research…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… joined the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and in 1978, he was elected to represent the Enseleni district in the former … IT for Development and in February 2002…
BiographyJames Kantor
… whom Ivan Schermbrucker , a South African Communist Party (SACP) member””a neighbour and friend of Hilda and Lionel ‘ …
EventMpho Mathibela, one of the Siamese twins separated in an operation six months earlier, leaves hospital for the first time
… Mathibela made headlines when they were born conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on 7 December 1986.The twin girls …
EventOupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
… accused the African National Congress (ANC), in particular Chris Hani of involvement in the attempt coup. On 9 February 1991 …
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
… started in Gauteng, where five major hospitals, including Chris Hani Baragwanath, the largest in Africa, were selected to …
BiographyBoy Mvemve
… League, of which he was the Alexandra township branch secretary. He was among the dedicated foot soldiers of the …
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
… association.In 1970,when working as a truck driver,he was elected to the executive of the African Transport Worker's …
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… Wilton Mkwai 1992 Joe Slovo 1994 Ray Alexander Simons 2004 Chris Hani 2008 Ruth Mompati 2014 Gertrude Shope 2014 …