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BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
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…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… on more than 40 occasions. In almost all these cases, the courts found in favour of the new quota allocation system …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… there was a need for male labor production in mining [xiii] . The oppression of domestic workers was a holdover … South African Domestic Workers and the…
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… is intended to act complementarily with a state’s national courts, and is enabled to try individuals only when national courts are unwilling or unable to do…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
… and free association, be recognised and protected. XIII 1. The institution, status and role of traditional … like common law, shall be recognised and applied…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… by being favorites and being popular among the girls. [xiii] Endnotes [i]Nguni, South African History Online … 15.09.2016 ↵ [x] ibid ↵ [xi] Ibid ↵ [xii]…
EventThe Western Desert Force is upgraded
… was upgraded with the addition of two complete corps: the XIII and XXX. General Sir Alan Cunningham was given overall …
EventRayda Jacobs, the novelist and documentary filmmaker is born
… on the One City Many Cultures programme in Cape Town.[xiii] End Notes [i] Rayda Jacobs, … Jacobs, http://www.nb.co.za/authors/2687 (1 May 2017). ↵ [xiii]…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… imagined and real, in former residents of District Six. [xiii] Thus by the time that the District Six Museum opened … South African Institute of Race…
ArticleThe Transkei
… Tribal and District Authorities had fled, while peoples’ courts were dealing with collaborators, and Chiefs were in … to adapt the pattern to heal conditions…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… for a hybrid? In many English-speaking countries, ordinary courts can scrutinise constitutional issues. But these courts needed to be credible and command…
PlaceThe Space Theatre
… had been more than three hundred productions staged. [xiii] In late 2008, it Re-opened its doors with the support … ↵ [xii] Ibid ↵ [xiii] Brian Astbury, “The…
EventCliff Drysdale, the tennis star is born
… of his first wife Jean who died of a rare disease in 1984.[xiii] In 2013 Drysdale, along with Charlie Pasarell and Ion … ↵ [xiii]Jean Drysdale, …
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… role of traditional leadership (Constitutional Principles XIII); ”¢ traditional leaders; and ”¢ the executive. Theme … systems." With regard to…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… culture, his own musical career, and the South African courts. On 11 September 2010, Mbuli helped to establish the …
Bathandwa Ndondo
… and Dumisa’s wife Nontobeko made applications to the courts to have the banishment order overturned, which …
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… of the Satyagraha, he joined the successful appeal to the courts against segregation in tramways and fought for the …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… said she found it difficult to forget what the apartheid courts had done to her family and she carried with her the …
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… by the Dutch when they arrived in South Africa). The courts used these laws and developed them when they made …
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… Dutch would still be taught in schools and used in courts. A civil government would replace the military …
PlaceThe Space
… had been more than three hundred productions staged. [xiii] In late 2008, it Re-opened its doors with the support … ↵ [xii] Ibid ↵ [xiii] Brian Astbury, “The…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… UN appeals, specifically referencing Resolution 1248 (XIII) from October 1958. The General Assembly made four key …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… Writings 1874-1916 (Paarl: Van Riebeek Society, 2008), xiii ↵ [18]Jeff Opland and Abner Nyamende, Isaac Williams …
ArticleProvincial Leaders
… also members of Parliament) and independent Judiciary (the Courts). The Cabinet ministers are the ones who make sure the …