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How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted personality…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who … leadership of the people's movement, the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the summit on rural Safety and Security Midrand, 10 October 1998
… Chairpersons Members of the Cabinet Delegates Other than our legislative bodies, this is perhaps one of the most representative gatherings in the country…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the injustices of our past; Honour … both sides…
Postscript
… "The Road Not Taken" To a great extent that has been true of the past thirty years of my life ”” I have followed the road "less travelled by", … to his…
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… a 1947, a letter to the Cape Town Clerk and the secretary of the Board of Trustees to the Cape Peninsula Cemeteries requested the … at the Mamelodi Cemetery…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan Africanist Congress: "The Committee…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan Africanist Congress: "The Committee…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… for the opportunity to be here and give a short synopsis of the Commonwealth's relations with the Anti-Apartheid … said to have found not only a role, but…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and … met Makhanda, described him: “We found…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his … Murray was apprenticed to the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had … 1975, she married Samora Machel , the…
BiographyShaka Zulu
… was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian … in a Zulu kingdom which survived not…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
… Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was … Zambia. During this time his father was the…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with … in the most influential courts in the…
BiographyIrma Stern
… she has also worked as a sculptor whose portrayal of African people gave her white counterparts insight into the African ways of life. In 1927, Irma won the…
BiographyMoses Josiah Madiba
… November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. Although … from the South African…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
… born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall … words, she acquired "an…
BiographySoromini Kallichurum
… kwaZulu-Natal ). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at the ‘non-White’ section of the University of Natal. She…
BiographyHenry Bathurst
… England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, Georgiana…
BiographyGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
… Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953 Durban . She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone … She obtained a BA in…
BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
… (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in … president from 1952 to 1954. He was also…
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
… Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later … his undergraduate and Honours degrees at the…
BiographyPenny Siopis
… Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu. He attended the local primary … while a pupil at St John…