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PlaceRondebosch
… (VOC) , records to Rondeboschje . Despite its early origins Rondebosch did not achieve recognition as a separate …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
Reggie Vandeyar was born into a poor family on 15 July 1931 in Newclare. His father was originally from India, who had come to South Africa to seek fortune. …
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… and formerly known as the Malay Quarter , the Bo-Kaap’s origins date back to the 1760 's, when numerous “ huurhuisjes …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… follow-up articles giving the historical backgrounds and origins of such gangs as the Americans, the Berliners, the …
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… and grazing had been used up. To find out more about the origins, languages and cultures of the people of South Africa …
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… to hear about it. The Cradle of Human Culture traces the origins and development of human culture over the past 160 …
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The origins and development of Trotskyism 171 Document 68 Letter …
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… Cape Muslims: A study of their mosques, geneology and origins. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1978. Cairns, Margaret. …
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony(Media friendly) by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… with their colonial, cultural, religious, and linguistic origins. Injustice rooted in beliefs, prejudice, and … culture, religion, language, nationality,…
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… Origins The organisation known as Al-Shabaab originally …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up…
BiographyShaka Zulu
Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the…
PlaceCompany Gardens in Cape Town
… Garden is the oldest garden in the country . It has its origins in Jan van Riebeeck’s , Vegetable Garden, which he …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young…
Sadecque Variava
Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July 1949 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… of ANC SWAPO, the Namibian liberation movement, had its origins partly in the union of Ovambo workers formed in Cape … is a microcosm of the world with…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… Satyagraha - in 1952 in which 8,000 people of all racial origins went to prison. Congresses of Coloured and white … the revolutionary upsurge uniting people…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… Satyagraha - in 1952 in which 8,000 people of all racial origins went to prison. Congresses of Coloured and white … the revolutionary upsurge uniting people…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… have ended a generation ago. Some of you left your rural origins, against all odds, reached the strange environment of …
Speech at the Final Conference of International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa by O . R. Tambo, London, 24 May 1991
… treason for daring to oppose apartheid. It was from these origins that a great international organisation was to emerge …
PlacePiketberg
… Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin D’Urban. Khoisan origins Adam Kok III - Griqua Captain - 1848" by Anon. - …
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… be extremely careful about talking to the press about the origins of the Zimbabwe state. I was told that the museum … if I said publicly that blacks had…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… so – as ideological differences. This feature traces the origins and development of the ideological divide between …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… as the one pound a day campaign. This campaign had its origins in the call made by the South African Congress of …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
Claire Albin Claire Albin is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University originally from Shreveport, Louisiana. She is currently studying Marketing…