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BiographyLouis Leo Mtshizana
Louis Leo Mtshizana was born in 1930. When Mtshizana was in Form 5 at Lovedale, after doing a study of Charles Dickens and reading Oliver Twist in English…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
Jacob Morake was born on 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night,…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
BiographyPatricia De Lille
Patricia de Lille, a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children…
BiographyTholakele Madala
Tholakele Madala was born in Kokstad on 13 July 1937. He matriculated at St John's College in Umtata before obtaining a BA degree at the University of Fort…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and writer, Alexander Merensky. Hans studied geology and mine…
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
Michiel Hendrik Nesser was born on 28 July 1874 in Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his…
PlaceGannahoek Farm
… possession of the farm until 1990. Evictions View Larger Map The labour tenants who lived on Gannahoek farm had to …
BiographyThomas Titus Nkobi
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in Johannesburg. Member of the national executive committee of the African National…
BiographySir. Richard Bourke
Richard Bourke was born on 4 May 1777 in Dublin, Ireland. During his army career he was promoted to Major-General and proved himself as an excellent and…
BiographyGaus Shikomba
Born on January 27 1935, at Onashiku shaLaban near Oshakati in Oshana Region, Shikomba joined OPO in 1959 and subsequently Swapo in 1960. He joined the South…
BiographyDr. Phuthuma Seoka
Dr Phuthuma (also documented as Phutuma and Phatuma) Seoka was born in 1922 in Modjadji near Duiwelskloof, Lebowa. Seoka left school in Standard VI and spent…
BiographyCecil Sols
Cecil Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the…
ArchiveThe African version of Christianity. Paper read at the Annual Bishop`s Conference of Council of African Independent Churches (CAIC) held at Otimati on May 19-21, 1988
’Impose Comprehensive and Mandatory Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South Africa, Unesco House Paris, 21 May 1981
Statement of the President of the ANC Nelson R. Mandela at his inauguration as President of the Democratic Republic of South Africa Union buildings Pretoria, 10 May 1994
Letter reporting on joint meeting of the Executive Committees of the All African Convention and the African National Congress from Moses Kotane to Professor Z. K. Matthews, May 8, 1949
State of the Nation address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 21 May 2004
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… had more power in business, or politics. Race in Namibia A map showing the Kalahari Desert in which Herero were driven … Case study: Australia and the…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… resources. Segregation after formation of the Union A map of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa Image … resources. Segregation after formation…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… that the land they were occupying had been ‘deserted’. A map of the rise of the Zulu Empire under Shaka during the … to the White inhabitants who had…
Sponono Francina Baloyi, nurse, current ANC MP and former Minister of Health and Welfare, KaNgwane, is born.
Lord Liverpool, British Colonial Secretary, sends instructions to Cape governor Sir John Cradock, to investigate allegations ma
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
Pik Botha was born on 27 April 1932 in Rustenburg, Transvaal.His father was a school principal. Pik as he is affectionately known attended the Hoer Volkskool,…
PlaceKokstad
… for its cheese until Oprah Winfrey placed the town on the map, amidst much fanfare, when her charitable foundation, … for its cheese until Oprah Winfrey…
PlaceZorgvliet Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
… Bange Hoek’ which is how it was indicated on a transport map of Zevenrivieren ,in the year 1704. Not only was it …
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a fleeting footnote…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… Task Team approached the air force, asking them to help map the cemetery for potential burial sites of Johnson and …
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, and sentenced to three years`…