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BiographyAndrew Meintjes
… Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, he met photographer David Goldblatt…
BiographyLucky Philip Dube
… Lucky Dube was born on a small farm near Ermelo in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). His mother, Sarah, … that she named him “Lucky”. She was the only…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC ……
BiographyRobert Cedric Wilcox
… continued to build APDUSA. He was also actively involved in the South African Council on Sport (SACOS) in developing the non-racial sports movement in South…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… (Extracts from an exclusive article published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the … now. Greater latitude will be allowed to…
BiographyDr Gomolemo Mokae
… Gomolemo Mokae was born in Ga-Mokopane. He was the last of the eight children born of … (now Chis Hani Baragwanath) and started a general practice in Soweto…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… Limpopo Province covers the Area that lies Northern most in South Africa , just South of Zimbabwe . It was first called the Northern Province, but this was…
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
… he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English and returned to … to his people, and the European settlers…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
… Jaydew Nasib Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the … African Indian Congress …
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province . She was an organizer of the women's … African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in…
BiographyErnest “Ernie” Theodore Els
… Theodore Els or “ Big Easy ” as he is affectionately known in the sporting circles was born on 17 October 1969, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the…
BiographyDora Tamana
… Dora Tamana (nee Ntloko) was born in 1901 in Hlobo, Transkei , the eldest of seven children. Her … on the many tasks demanded of a young girl growing up in…
BiographyLord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne
… Lord William Palmer, the second Earl of Selborne was born in 1859. He studied history at the University of Oxford. He … South Africa to succeed Lord Milner…
Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Abuja, 3 October 2000
… Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Democracy and Renaissance in Africa: In search of an enduring Pax Africana Thank you … power from the people and place it in…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… mouth is zipped but, Thank God, I can still speak to you in absentia, by the written word through the medium of a … alarmed and greatly shaken by the rising…
BiographyDoe Molefe
… Doe Molefe was born in 1950 in Dukathole, Germiston. Molefe began making highly original … for an exhibition of post-boxes held at the Market Gallery in 1986…
BiographyIsaiah MacDonald Maseko
… and elected to the ANC national executive committee in December 1952. He was expelled from the ANC in 1954 for allegedly organising a dissident left-wing ……
BiographyJulius Tokoti Mangcotywa
… Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. … 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after being…
BiographyHenry Mvuyisi Pato
… Henry Mvuyisi Pato (35) was from Mbizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2011. On 16 August 2012 Mvuyisi was killed at scene 2 after…
BiographyThobisile Zibambele
… Thobisile Zibambele (39) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2009. On 16 August 2012 Thobisile was killed at scene 1…
PlaceKruger National Park
… Government Game Reserve 'Gouvernements Wildtuin' (in Afrikaans ), was proclaimed by the South African Republic … Sabie and Crocodile rivers. This was a…
BiographyIan Berry
… Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had … travelling around Africa. He…
Elias Monare
… from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen…
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… need to substantiate theoretical positions on issues in practice as a means to solve Africa’s problems. The annual lecture in his honour immortalizes his…
BiographyDavid H Mgugunyeka
… Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities. …
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… "Cape Town has just been voted as the top city in the world by the prestigious Time Out publication. And I … Coloured Occupants. In 1901, the first forced…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… historians, educators and parents were included in the debate about the content of history and especially … a month ago is of the strength of this African…
Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson
… former Methodist Minister was restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and … Beyers Naude and others. Reverend…
The South African War
… read more ). Regardless of who provoked the war, conflict in southern Africa would have been inevitable before the … industry could become a more important…
ANC Today Volume 10 No.1, 15 - 21 January 2010
… itself to the historic mission of uniting our people in the struggle for the liberation of the oppressed black majority in general, and Africans in…