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BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
1918 21 October Nontsikelelo Thethiwe was born in the village Camama in the Tsomo district of the Transkei to a very large family. Circa 1926 Albertina…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife, by Serbian…
BiographyHermione Stephanie Lombard Faure
Stephanie Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his…
BiographyJ B Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway worker and his mother, a…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German…
BiographyJosephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood,…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
IntroductionNovember 1977, Dr Mamphele Ramphele stands over Steve Biko's open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by 20,000 mourners at King…
ArchiveO R Tambo 1917-1993: hamba kahle people's leader
Pamphlet on the life and death of Oliver Tambo. Includes a tribute by Nelson Mandela, a brief biography and quotes from his speeches.
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
Percy John ‘Jack’ Hodgson born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John Hodgson. An…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
… Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
1 January Battle of Artois and Champagne in France begins. 31 January 1915 The German Army makes use of poison gas for the first time in an attack on the…
BiographySimon P. Mkalipi
… first-string accused in the Treason Trial, he was born in 1913 in Grahams town and completed the sixth grade. He worked …
BiographyBenjamin John Peter Tyamzashe
… drawing Teacher's Diploma by studying privately between 1913 and 1924, while teaching at the Tiger Kloof Institution …
ArticleBarberton timeline 1884-1911
1884 4 July, Henry Barber and his cousin Fred discovers Barberton 1884 Small hut prison is established 1874 The first traces of alluvial Gold are…
BiographyMary Agard Pocock
… at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four years later …
BiographyDebi Singh
… He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban . …
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
Heinrich Egersdorfer was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1853. He trained in lithography in Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the…
BiographyFrank Wiles
Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
1900s 1917 27 October, Oliver Reginald Tambo (OR) is born in the village of Kantolo, Mbizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle was born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where Sotho…
BiographyJames Smith Morland
Born Liverpool, England 1846, died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
Optometrist Julius Louis Saks was the first son of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South Africa from England in 1905. Sidney Saks became a…
Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f
… soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f …
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
BiographyIlse Naude
… Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near …