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… Headman Tshabalala was born in 1945 in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 1960, he joined the first incarnation of the band …

… 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. Sisulu, better known as Lungi, was born on 20 August 1966 in Moscow to Max Sisulu and Mercy Vuthela, two young South African exiles studying in the Soviet Union. At the age of five, Lungi came to South …

… foreign rule for centuries until it gained independence in 1951. Soon after oil was discovered and earned the country immense wealth. Colonel Gaddafi seized power in 1969 and ruled for four decades until he was toppled in 2011 following an armed rebellion assisted by Western …

… on its main recommendation – to make history compulsory in the final three years of high school from 2023. The … faculties tasked with training teachers. I was involved in a 2017 research paper on the training of history teachers in 20 universities and universities of technology (see …

… and Bridglal Pachai M K. Gandhi introduced a new weapon in the Indians' campaign for justice. That weapon, satyagraha , was the culmination of a profound development in Gandhi himself. The reason why satyagraha found favour … It was not weapon of the weak. Source: Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa, Nayajivan, Ahmedabad, 1928, pp. 109-15. ... …

… Freedom Charter is that it is based on the assumption that in the current period there can be a purely national … bulk of the SA economy. All these monopolies operating in South Africa are themselves controlled by big capital from … the biggest operating monopoly, Anglo American was set up in 1921 with major shareholding by the US bank, JP Morgan. …

… Born on 14 April 1886 in a wheat farm called bloublommetjieskloof  in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony, Maria Magdalena Laubster was a painter …

… of the decision to offer me this privilege I lost no time in accepting it - I know that councils can sometimes change their minds in these matters. But I was reassured when you conferred the … of the pioneers of our New Patriotism, Archbishop Tutu. In that sense I am proud to be in the league of such a great …

… comes at a time when millions of South Africans living in poverty are not covered by a basic social security net, … at over 30% is still rising. Our limited public services in areas such as health and education, are already severely stretched. Many countries in the developed world, with advanced social security …

… Twelve years ago, the peoples of Africa and Asia met in the revolutionary capital of the United Arab Republic to … the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation meeting in Council in the revolutionary capital of Libya, can proudly cast its …

… , a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape , after … fleeing their Homeland when Protestantism was outlawed in France in 1685. Today, many of the Wine Farms still bear their …

… In 1828 the Wesleyan Missionary Society established a station … were broken up and dispersed by Shaka and his Zulu armies in the Mfecane wars. Most of them fled westwards and settled … “dogs”), they formed an alliance with the Cape government in 1835 and were invited by Sir Benjamin d’Urban to settle on …

… on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of; KwaZulu. It is situated on Land … Msusamphi and Mashunka were former white Farms acquired in the mid-1960's for purposes of relocating people evicted … area for the many former Weenen Farm Workers began in earnest. Sahlumbe was formally created in 1969 by the …

… Angered by the manner in which Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was … troops for the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Force in Haiti. Aristide was overthrown twice, first in a military coup d'ÁƒÂƒ©tat in September, 1991, and finally … Answers, U.S. Military Involvement in the Caribbean and Latin America , [online], Available at  …

… Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and … languages related to those of the present day were living in the area. These peoples lived in relatively isolated small settlements, where they hunted …

… and Bridglal Pachai Indian Opinion reflected on the way in which the 1903 Immigration Restriction Act operated under Harry Smith, the Immigration Restriction Officer. In all 6,763 would-be immigrants were denied entry into Natal … 269 certificates of domicile belonging to persons already in the Colony were confiscated. Source: Indian Opinion, 10 …

… is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in South Africa. On 28 January 1904, the Grey College School in Bloemfontein was formally inaugurated, and lectures in the Humanities were presented to six students in a …

… In the name of Afrika and Freedom I greet you all! AFRIKA! … AFRIKA! MAYIBUYE! INKULULEKO NGESIKHATHI SETHU (Freedom in Our Lifetime)! Let us sing together to Freedom, "Mayibuye … of greeting and expression of our deepest appreciation in the African National Congress for the most cordial and …

… the celebrated Hajee Soofie who immigrated to South Africa in 1895. He was responsible for the construction of 11 other … and the laying out of a number of Cemeteries. He died in 1911 and his body was interred in the octagonal Mausoleum that he designed. It was declared …

… 1946 Salvation lies in Non-European Front — M.D. Naidoo The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of non-Europeans. They could only aspire to …

… are proud of their country, and proud of their continent. In just a few months we will be marking 20 years of freedom. … and creed. The country has been steadily moving forward in a direction that reasserts our humanity and towards the … means and to reflect on some of the most moving moments in the dawn of freedom. One of the symbolic moments of the …

… up the beating of the murdered activist Stompie Seipei. In an hour-long exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian in a Durban prison, Thulani Nicholas Dlamini, who is seeking … us R20 000 to murder Dr Asvat.” His story is corroborated in an affidavit signed by fugitive Katiza Cebekhulu, who …

… for Joburg’s uber cool party central you’ll find it in ‘Braam’." Filled with students, fixie bike hipsters … been this way, but its long history starts off as a Farm in 1853 to developing into a booming middle-class Residential Suburb in the mid 1890s- to the 1930's. During the Economic and …

… name Mahakeng, by the Barolong boo Ratshidi who settled in the area during the early nineteenth Century. The Barolong … spelling of using an ' H'  was later changed to an ' F'  in order to comply with a more standard Setswana spelling. As a result, the town became Mafikeng. The name in English means "place of rocks". In Setswana , Lefika means …

… Delegates to this Workshop on Human Rights Education in Africa, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a special privilege for me to address this workshop on Human Rights Education in Africa. Let me at the outset congratulate the organisers … the Lawyers for Human Rights, have taken this initiative in collaboration with the African Commission on Human and …

… revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or more members of … farms, on the mines or doing some other form of work in the towns. Behind the scenes of the world of the workers … owned by the government. It was a bit like the common land in Britain. It was often in the least attractive areas of the …

… world body on progress and the current state of affairs in the Burundi Peace Process. Our role as facilitator of the … the leaders of that region saw fit to appoint us, was in a sense inaugurated with a visit to the Security Council in January this year. On 16 January we paid our first …

… world body on progress and the current state of affairs in the Burundi Peace Process. Our role as Facilitator of the … the leaders of that region saw fit to appoint us, was in a sense inaugurated with a visit to the Security Council in January this year. On 16 January we paid our first …

… earlier photography prepared me for the work in her book  Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain  (2017). No hint of what she has done here could I find in my memory of our collaborations of the late seventies. Nor could I link what she has done in the past few years in Namibia with her photography on the …