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ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa The Dutch East India Company (VOC) … the Prestwich Memorial, celebrates the contribution of all these people to Cape Town…
ArticleSouth African Institute of Race Relations
… The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) was established in 1929 as an … and sociologists, and focused on socio economic conditions of those who…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
… Merensky. Hans studied geology and mine engineering at the State Academy of Mining and the University of Berlin, Germany, and passed … research that led to…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
… Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in … needed money from South Africa. In 1979 Matanzima…
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Activities | Grade 6
… Johannesburg: STE. Randles, W. G. L. (1975). The Empire of Monomotapa: from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. … E. A. (1983). Mapungubwe: An…
George Montsioa
… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … Gabashane,…
BiographyRay Berman
… he won the award for ‘Most Promising Artist’ at the Artist of Fame & Promise Exhibition in Johannesburg. This motivated … in Paris, France. Upon his return…
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 … colleagues to work. Later Mahanyele gave…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The … demand for an educational system that was…
The Order of the Southern Cross
… E Mphahlele for exceptional achievement in the field of literature and to Professor P Tobias in the field of palaeontology. … The Order of the Southern Cross…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely … issues of gender inequality that were…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed ……
BiographyLeslie Sonny Thuso Monnanyane
… the Defiance Campaign and became a prominent Orange Free State leader. … Prominent Orange Free State ANC leader …
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… image from there to insert in this section. South Africans of Indian origin comprise a diverse community distinguished … brought to the Cape. In the decades…
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… had intensified, and the country found itself on the brink of a potentially devastating civil war. The conflict … firstly, the demand for majority rule in a…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… The Role and Impact of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile and Women in South Africa Politics … has played a major and vital role in the history of South African…
BiographyBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala
… boy Macala tended cattle on a farm in the Orange Free State and passed the time drawing on the rocks with stones. … 1967 he became a full-time artist. In…
Sipho Philip Mutsi
… been natural causes. Lawyer, Richard Spoor, announced a state autopsy showed the cause of death to be a brain haemorrhage, the result of a blow to his head…
Molatodi Thomas Lehupela
… 1962 in Paradys Location, Thaba' Nchu in the Free State Province. He attended Penyang Primary School and was … at grade six due to financial constraints. At…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… Honourable Presiding Officers of the National Assembly and the National Council Your … food supply, reduce hunger, and improve responses to food emergency…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… The name of Dr William Fehr should be familiar to many of those who … there, linking the Cape Colony to the south and the Free State and Transvaal to the…
Crisis of capitalism: The Great Depression in the USA and its wider impact in terms of the emergence of fascist economies and states
… Crisis of capitalism: The Great Depression in the USA and its wider impact in terms of the emergence of fascist economies and states …
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… bands, most notably The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breadth. Through this mutually felt discrimination, … and drummer Louis Moholo. Pukwana spent the…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the … for better subsidisation of the university sector by the state, in line with the…
Statement by Denis Goldberg, ANC at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
… a solemn event, convened to mark the international Day of Solidarity with South African and Namibian Political … began at the end of 1984 and since the…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… and was a good all-round pupil, becoming chairman of debating society, head of the Voortrekkers, a member of … At the end of the no-confidence debate in…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa … elements of the…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa … elements of the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… Today, January 8th, we observe the 77th Anniversary of the people`s movement, the African National Congress. I … which has remained true to its nature as a…
BiographyMgcineni Noki
… Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009 and was a leader of the strike. On 16 August 2012 Mambush was killed at scene … at the very least three times since…