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BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role in opposition politics for over a decade, attracting notice from the…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
Walter Sidney Felgate was born on 19 November 1930 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Felgate graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in 1949. He studied…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… He had been instructed to erect a small fort, protect sources of fresh water and lay out a garden in which fresh …
Grade 6 term 1 classroom support
… on why the relationship between rivers/fresh water sources and civilizations were important. They should present … cover why their location to seas/rivers…
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
BiographyBen Baartman
The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines around…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project
… of the challenges of finding non-partisan and critical sources as background to individual countries. As another …
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… access to substantial labour. There were three possible sources of labour, the local Khoikhoi pastoralists, Dutch …
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… which included murder,arson,and armed robbery.Government sources said that the men had established a camp in …
EventCiskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence
… election as president seems to be 5 December, though some sources give it as 4 December. The source South African …
BiographyAllister Sparks
Allister Sparks was born to Harold Sparks and Bernice Stephen on 10 March 1933 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape. This made him a fifth generation settler, with his…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… of artifacts. It is important to utilise shipwrecks as sources of education and cultural enrichment to all South …
BiographyNgoako David Thebehali
David Thebehali was born on 3 June 1938 in Orlando East, Soweto. His parents were among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a pupil at…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… in the past through oral history. Oral history uses oral sources or the spoken word as a form of historical evidence. These sources include oral testimony…
BiographyHamilton Naki
Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in 1930. His family was poor and after completing primary school he left for Cape…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later enrolled for a…
BiographyGeorge Arthur Heard
Journalist George Arthur Heard was the elder son of Arthur Henry Heard, inspector of works in Bloemfontein, and his wife, Millicent Agnes Elliot. He was one of…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933, the family immigrated…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… the matter earnestly. After the news was published, more sources came forward revealing even deeper official secrets …
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… source mentions that the restriction was in 1986, but two sources confirm the year 1988. …
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… afarensis who died in a flood about 3,2 million years ago. Sources: www.cradleofhumankind.co.za and www.telecom.net.et … Laetoli show us how are ancestors…
Judaism
… a tallit, or prayer shawl, to remond them of God's law. Sources: www.ida.net Jews, like Christians and Muslims, …
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called …
Henry Mutile Fazzie
Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent…
BiographyJames Matthews
James David Matthews was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing standard seven, Matthews began to work…
EventBoris Becker of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA at Wimbledon.
… to rapturous applause on centre court'. Source: bbc.co.uk Sources: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
The Early Years Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in the small hamlet of Bishops Stortford, England. He was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes…