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ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo who, he told a meeting of the Queensburgh Indian … a Republic on 31 May…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… Ntsikelelo Sandi will lead you with questions on behalf of the Commission. ADV SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairman. Let me … today to tell us about Mr Sobukwe. We…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Years - Richard Rive The Mount Hermon School File Product of Moody School How Congress Began - R V Selope Thema … universities. Some years ago it broadened…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor … died in 1975, but he lives on through the…
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 Point of View ". This document was drawn up…
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 Rights," Adopted by the ANC … from different…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… The Role of London in the Anti-Apartheid movement, specifically in … relation to the SACP and the ANC The international aspect of the anti-apartheid struggle…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student … #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled liberation movement as a…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… Mozambican fighter for FRELIMO who like thousands of women fought for independence for her country until she died at the tender age of 25. 7 April marks the…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We … other ‘Madala’ – old man – it…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943] PURPOSE OF THIS PAMPHLET In this pamphlet the "Anti-C.A.D. Committee" … latest moves against the Coloured People…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Lembede Booker T. Washington's educational philosophy of self-help and vocational and technical training inspired a … Natives Representative Council and put…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … in the work I took on. So when the…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and … met Makhanda, described him: “We found…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his … Murray was apprenticed to the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree…
BiographyShaka Zulu
… was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian … in a Zulu kingdom which survived not…
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
… 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained … Johannesburg Bar. A keen soccer…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with … in the most influential courts in the…
BiographyIrma Stern
… she has also worked as a sculptor whose portrayal of African people gave her white counterparts insight into the African ways of life. In 1927, Irma won the…
BiographyKate O’Regan
… up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980, an LL.M. from the…
BiographyElias Phakane Moretsele
… (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. He was the owner of an eating-house in the city, which in due course became a … for black politicians. In 1933 he was a…
BiographyMoses Josiah Madiba
… November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. Although … from the South African…