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BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and … was born in 1923 in the Transkei and was a member of the Tembu royal house…
BiographyJames Kantor
… and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg’s best-known and successful lawyers who got … and detained at Marshall Square under…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke FOR A … the +Khoikhoin and the Bantu, and confiscated their land, they had next to…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
… in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the … They were charged in terms of the…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a teacher and later … 1973 saw Moodley banned under the…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … project Abstract: This essay discusses…
BiographyFatima Seedat
… Party. In Durban she got involved with the politics of the Indian community and became a member of the Natal Indian Congress . When the Indian Congress ……
PlaceAkasia- a Complex of Suburbs, of Pretoria
… Town in the Wonderboom district, 3 km from North of Pretoria North, now known as Tshwane. It obtained … 1904 and an old Dutch-Reformed Church, was in the…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past. His grandfather, a Talmudic … miners , he was undone when the…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… Development Trust recognises on this important occasion of the centenary of Phoenix Settlement, the outstanding contribution, … into the Natal Indian…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
… Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market …
Pretoria the Segregated city
… most important acts was The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and the Immorality Act (1950), which made it … a particular race group i.e. White,…
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. … major subjects. This…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the history of women's…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). Seme was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) in 1912, which was renamed … as a result of…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Introduction MK Sabotage. This photograph was part of a sequence shot by a Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of … to silence opposition. In 1972, the…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… indirect or nonexistent, for example, the Immorality Act which prohibited whites from sexual relations with … development and the more effective utilization…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the National … this year of the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, land has become one of the…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… through the multiracial and liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In particular, NUSAS was outspoken in its criticism of government…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, … further threatened to bring a complaint under the Usury Act. These particular…
BiographyFred Carneson
… Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine children. Fred’s parents were both almost illiterate … he was forced to leave school and…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern To the … leadership of the mass struggle. So…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… failures to resist dispossession of their lands. “All the land was taken from us in the name of the Crown of Great … He pointed out the hardships brought…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 3: Colonisation of the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries
… around to find different plant foods at different times of the year, as well as good water resources. They believed that all the land belonged to the…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… the 13 and 18 September with members of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) on board. It was established … Africans the epidemic came after…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the death of President Samora Machel
… Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the death of President Samora Machel …
BiographyJean Sinclair
… Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which enabled the apartheid government to…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… The Role and Impact of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile and Women in South Africa Politics … has played a major and vital role in the history of South African…
BiographyDouglas G. Wolton
… Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in … Cape Town, he was convicted under the…
BiographyZwelakhe Sisulu
… icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He was the third of five children. When he was nine, he was taken to Swaziland … a career in journalism. In 1980, Sisulu,…