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ArchiveSouth African women too modest, say visitors
… South African women too modest, say visitors …
South African students` perceptions changed in Zimbabwe
… South African students` perceptions changed in Zimbabwe …
Anton Ackerman (59), South African actor, dies.
… Anton Ackerman (59), South African actor, dies. …
BiographyJames Kantor
… that Wolpe was involved with uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s (ANC) military wing. Nor, he … movement, someone whom Ivan Schermbrucker…
BiographyWalter Battiss
… Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and … and drew and painted since childhood…
BiographyIngrid Jonker
… as D.J. Opperman and her work was published regularly in family magazines such as Die Huisgenoot . The first … Mandela said that: “She was both a poet and a…
BiographyAnton Ndoda Xaba
… the late 1940s and went to work in Durban. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1953 at Emsizini in Durban … the regime banned 24 trade…
BiographyFeziwe Bookholane
… that her stepson was murdered together with seven other African National Congress (ANC) members in the Maputo raid in Mozambique by South African Army. In…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… he created the sets for King Kong, a celebrated South African musical tracing the tragic story of a real-life … Johannesburg, in 1961 as headquarters for…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
… a member and treasurer of the Durban branch of the South African Congress of Democrats . In 1955, she was a member of the Secretariat of the Joint Executive…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
… his education. A heated debate ensued between the South African government and the KwaZulu royal family over the choice of regency. He was installed as the ……
EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… were those of a desperate man from a poverty-stricken family. The two brothers were later suspended for ten years … South African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng,…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… from Britain under the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah the All African People Conference was held in the capital city Accra … felt that Ghana independence would…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) was formed during an … trade union co-coordinating body, and ally of the African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… was a devout anarchist, while his ancestors in his wider family were famed Cretan rebels who had fought against the … South Africa illegally aged 20 and…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
… the University of Lourenco Marques and worked in the rural areas of southern Mozambique for a year. He was a … to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . He later…
BiographyClements Kadalie
… Mr and Mrs. Musa Kadalie Muwamba.He was born into chiefly family,in or shortly before 1896, his education was overseen … on top of that Kadalie was a…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
… Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when she was about six years … the Congress of Democrats , the Federation…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973 Events in the last nine … industry and repeats itself in…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist Party (SACP) ) as well as the Springbok … Thornton got involved in night school…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… Bophuthatswana was granted ‘independence' by the South African government. The region became the second Bantustan to … leaving scores of people dead…
BiographyWilliam Ngwendu
… 1937; active in 1943 anti-pass campaign and 1949 Western Areas train boycott. … active in the 1943 anti-pass campaign and the 1949 Western Areas train…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
… School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the Apartheid government; and it was … National Committee for Liberation, which…
BiographyAdam Glasser
… then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… and 65 years old. Conscripts became members of the South African Defense Force (SADF), or the South African Police (SAP). They were used to enforce the ……
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… a secret meeting in London between representatives of the African National Congress and Inkatha. There has been no … points which are likely to give the…
BiographySewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum
… “Papwa” Sewsunker Sewgolum was born in 1930, into a family of poor sugarcane labourers in Natal. He started … a year of this victory, Sewgolum was banned by…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… wall and floor painter. Sebidi was from a humble family, and with limited means of obtaining formal education, … routinely included in standard reference…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
… the apartheid system. He joined and became a deacon in the African Dutch Reformed Church in Alexandra and in July 1980 Niehaus joined the African National…
BiographyElmon Malele
… regime to Moroka Emergency Camp. Malele joined the African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance … its interests. His “crime” was that he was…