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BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
… Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He … a closing prayer at the South African Native…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a … Peoples Organisation (SACPO), which became…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. Most of Lekota’s schooling was completed … years and six months in jail. When the …
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
… Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic … the banning of SASM, was among those who…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… we Sizwe - was born to resume the armed resistance of our fathers, this time against the modern oppressor and … The next began with the formation of the…
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… were both school teachers in the area. He spent most of his early years staying with relatives in Limpopo and … role of Secretary General of the organisation…
BiographyChristina Jasson
… the treason trial proceedings. She was acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
… Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times … A. B. Xuma in the 1940s he served…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … Defiance Campaign . Unable to join the African National…
Lionel Morrison
… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in … After leaving…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
… Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up … he went to Moscow as a South African…
BiographyHamilton Kraai
… in Johannesburg, where he joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1918 he was arrested on charges of incitement in connection with the Rand "bucket…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Prior to the passage of apartheid laws both Black and White South Africans played rugby, albeit separately. After the onset of apartheid Black South Africans…
BiographyDr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
… she participated actively in the struggle for the rights of African nurses, having suffered the indignities of racial … discrimination herself. In 1962, the…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping with established … Allow me to begin by extending to you all,…
BiographyLettie Malindi
… Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a railway … to Cape Town. Matibi had joined the…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
… in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from … Member of the…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission … 1950s, Sejake was a leading member of the…
BiographyIqbal Shaik Mohammed
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and received training in the use of and maintenance of firearms and limpet mines. He and Ismail were established … maximum propaganda…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
… Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until … a clerk, and a restaurant proprietor. President of the Cape African…
BiographyVincent Tshabalala
… at a young age by the Bethal Trial in 1977 where a number of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members were accused. After completing his … Member and Chairman…
Sabata Manaka
… in Botswana, in 1982, where he was living under the name of Tshepo Nkosi. After this his family lost contact with him. Sabata Manaka died of natural…
Lennox Madikane
… Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province …
BiographyChief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
… in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant and mystical place, the city of Timbuktu was…
ArchiveJanuary 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 109th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2021
… January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 109th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… station for the Dutch East India Company. Members of the occupation forces were settled as free farmers. They … member of the Commonwealth 1912 African…
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… million, with cuts in deficit spending, but an increase of 15 per cent in social spending. To help fund increased … (SAPS), which was responsible for…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND … political organisation, the old reactionary Natal Indian…
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
… professor. In the late 1940s he served as secretary of the Cape ANC and was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee at…