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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…
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…
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…
EventHistory of December 16
… December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when … Republics…
Chapter 13
… Zig Zags of opportunism We have considered it necessary in the … are serious symptoms of mounting discontent among the Natives. The Bantu people are not only…
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…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape … we have already settled…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VIII - “Christianity and Civilization”
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke IN THE … Grey took a practical view of his task when he said: "The Natives are to…
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…
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…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… Reformed roots in South Africa How are colonial histories of planning transnational? Apartheid as planning for … strictly interpreted, implies all…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… humans inhabited what has since become the desolate Sahara of northern Niger. Long before the arrival of French influence and control in the area, Niger was…
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…
BiographyMabunu Mkize
… allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, ”was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, the…
BiographyMzinto Ngubane
… allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, “was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, the…
BiographyNkume Ngubane
… allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, “was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, the…
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…
Monde Khakhaza
… at Grahamstown on 17 August 1978 under the "Sabotage Act" and common law (public violence, murder, arson) to 22 …
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination … Anti-Indian Legislation: The Immigrants…
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… Africa in 1902 to preside over the transition to the Union of South Africa that became a reality in 1910. Milner arrived in South Africa soon after the South…
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… notice published on 6 November 1964 gave the names of 303 persons on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so-called 90 Day…
Robert L Barber
… in Durban.No further information was disclosed.Because of the circumstances of Mr Barber's death and because the Act under which he was held was undisclosed…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… Allison Drew Document 69 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 … nature of the strike. 2) Scabbing of…