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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… to reach some sort of agreement on the land and property issues. On 29 March 1944, the SAIC presented a memorandum to … his trial in 1944. He spent much of…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
… over to their families on 8 March 2014at the East London City Hall. Velaphi’s remains were handed to his family for … an official ceremony on 8 March 2014 in…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… seized power and began to set in motion plans to implement apartheid. 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is … Welfare’ to investigate the needs of the…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… of the cause of their deaths, however, implicates the apartheid state security agents. According to this version, … back to the church from the gravesite. In…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… expressed increasing dissatisfaction with South Africa's apartheid, a strict form of segregation, especially after … "Coloured people" to both black and…
BiographyIsaiah Stein
… activism. Stein’s involvement in the struggle against apartheid became more radical after the Sharpeville Massacre … and with the help of another great…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… who challenged social injustices, whether these related to Apartheid or to the Indian caste system. [iii] The family … as a human rights lawyer she saw the…
BiographyVesta Smith
… to ensuring that those involved in bringing an end to Apartheid had access to legal representation, was a … respect and support for people who faced the…
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
… 000. Matlala ended his 30-year boxing career at Carnival City, Brakpan by stopping Colombian Juan Herrera for the WBU …
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
… Congress in Bergen in 1973, the 11th Congress in Mexico City in 1978 and the 12th congress in New Delhi in 1984. …
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
… His wife, Magdalena Maria, was a member of the Pretoria City Council from 1937 to 1962, served as chairperson or …
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
… was appointed cultural officer in the Johannesburg City Council and took over Ezrom Legae's position at the …
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
… elected as a BNF Councillor for Babusi Ward in Gaborone City Council, and retired after the 1994 elections.Despite …
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… the first black person to be elected to the Cape Town City Council. Journalist George Manuel reported that … council he sought in particular to influence…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… victory of the National Party (NP) and the beginnings of apartheid, the League drew up a Programme of Action in 1948. … Nationalism. Moroka's National…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… leaving behind. It was located about 300 meters from the City Council sewerage. The housing was a V shaped shack … ensured a desired tight control of black…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… was to be the site of Sindiso’s first intimation of what Apartheid meant in South Africa. The town was mixed but … school in Cradock . One of his most vivid…
BiographyJohannes Jacobus Degenaar
… However, Degenaar consistently refused to conform to apartheid ideology and to curtail his ideas. In his writings, Degenaar uncompromisingly denounced the…
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… we Sizwe (MK) in Angola instead, in order to oppose the apartheid government. The 1980s was a turbulent time in … murdered, Zondo was instructed to…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… often used as platforms for building new ones during the apartheid era, [ii] so to understand those which famously … occurred under the Group Areas Act (and…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… portray what life was really like for peasants forced into urban labour. 1911 Olive Schreiner's the polemical Women and … all over the country. And it was…
BiographyMalesella Benjamin Moloise
… he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at Pretoria Central … was involved. The US and the Soviet…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… to facilitate rapid communication. The two most urgent issues Milner had to deal with were resettlement and … lines, & to agree, or differ, on other than…
BiographyMagade Madapu
… the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under Apartheid by Professor S. Badat …
BiographyBhungwana Saul Mngomezulu
According to documentation related to his banishment order, in 1965, after the death of Chief Zombizwe, Ntunja Mngomezulu was appointed chief of the Mngomezulu…
Opening Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, …
Statement at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th birthday, April 10, 1978
… at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th …
BiographyNeil Robert Tovey
… on 2 July 1962. He made his professional debut for Durban City in 1981 and won the 1982 and 1983 National Professional …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… was a period in South African history that predated formal apartheid but was nonetheless defined by racial segregation. … for the Tutu family after the…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa … in the Eastern Cape Province. Many Xhosa live in the urban centres…