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BiographyZolile Malindi
… village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death of his … Ngotyana.In 1941, Malindi moved to Cape Town…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… and France,trained as a journailst and in 1959 went to work for weekly Times of Brazil.The family settled in Brazil … years in South Africa. It was hard for…
BiographyJan Celliers
… farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an English … school. In 1874 the family moved to…
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid urged a boycott of all South African racist … UN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA…
BiographyJohn Hodgkiss
… Obie Oberholzer. John Hodgkiss was based in Johannesburg. His close friend, fellow artist and colloborator, Steve Cohen … artist, William Kentridge,…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… international solidarity for a quarter century but his political life is inseparable from that of his two closest colleagues. The three men began their … of…
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
… was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him at school until … was exposed. On the…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
… He matriculated in Ulundi, Northern Natal. Mathunjwa got his first job as laboratory attendant at Rand Coal in 1986, … Salvation Army, the Christian church…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… from the countryside in search of industrial and domestic work in the cities. Many of the militant industrial …
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it became a Black only … During the 1940s and 1950s, a lot of…
Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings are blamed on rebels loyal to Charles T
… Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital …
Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings are blamed on rebels loyal to Charles T
… Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital …
Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri
… Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists …
An American post-graduate student, Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, is dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Guguletu,
… An American post-graduate student, Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, is …
BiographyPatrick Akhona Jijase
… shot in the head and forearm by the police. He left behind his mother, father, brother, two sisters and nephew, who all depended on him financially…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
… to research people and their spaces. He then moved on to work at the urban problems research unit at UCT and produced … they did on Durban, Johannesburg and…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary school headmaster announced that students would … German and demanding to be taught…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the age of 12, … the tribulations they had to endure as…
BiographyThemba Daniel Mbongwa
… and spent time making art objects. He continued with his primary education at Mkhomazi on the Natal South Coast … objects. He attended the Mzuzu H.P. School…
BiographySamuel Makoanyane
… was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His…
To what extent was apartheid in South Africa part of neo-colonialism in the post World War 2 world (1948-1960)? (under construction)
… To what extent was apartheid in South Africa part of neo-colonialism in the post …
"Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party's National Conference, Johannesburg, 6 to 8 January 1950,29
… "Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee …
BiographyMthuli ka Shezi
… Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his political career when he became vice president of the BCM … affiliate, the Black People’s…
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
… He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977, at the…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… He was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes and his second wife, Louisa Peacock. A priest of the Church of … fields in Kimberley. Left on his own Rhodes…
David Pratt
… a very young age and was regularly hospitalised throughout his adult life for psychiatric treatment. He grew up in a … in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg,…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. The legal veneer 3. The … Covert operations Part B: The cracks appear…
BiographyIrma Stern
… died in 1966, while plans were being made to exhibit her work at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. The exhibition was … me to see how the natural…
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… of Sport, Piet Koornhof, announced a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declared that the government is … Mail&Guardian , (2007), ‘Apartheid-era…
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
… collect data to counteract state media disinformation. The work of these groups, multi-disciplinary in nature and based …