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Biography of Thamsanga Mnyele by Owen Dulik
… This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … Biography of Thamsanga Mnyele by Owen Dulik …
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… Kabwe conference was evident in a large-scale infiltration of MK combatants, which began in mid-1985, codenamed … Zikomo did, however, have important short…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stands on the slope of Table Mountain. … father of Jan Brand, the…
BiographyPaul Konings
… to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town. While in Cape Town , he worked as a freelance … in Don…
Cheryl Ellen Gillwald
… Cheryl Ellen Gillwald was born in Welkom in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 December 1956. She matriculated in 1974 … Washington High…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
… Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, … in 1948.’ He pursed Medical studies at the…
BiographyMichael Barry
… 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until 1981. In 1985, he ……
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the People's Army of our country. By that time the demands of our people … with ever-increasing violence and…
BiographyJan Celliers
… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State Librarian in 1894. The second Boer…
Declaration of principles adopted at the foundation conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, on 5 march 1955, and included as a preamble to its constitution
… Declaration of principles adopted at the foundation conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, on 5 march 1955, and included as a preamble …
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, … The creation of the KWV arose from the depressed…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the … the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by the…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… Honourable Speaker, President of the Senate, Honourable Prime Minister Arthur Napolean … country ungovernable. As the regime enters into the third State of…
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High … he resigned in late 1954…
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 … of Justice, who employed various repressive…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… Most historians consider the first half of the 1960s as a period in which the Nationalist Party (NP) … events of Sharpville massacre of 1960, and the…
ArchiveReport of NUSAS President
… Report of the President of the National Union of South African Students at the 58th Annual Congress, … the government's policy of Total Strategy, as well as…
Thomas G. Karis
… Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading … he joined the British Commonwealth…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
… Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in …
Joel Joffe
… Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, qualified as a … Sisulu’s composure in the witness box as he was…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… Madame Speaker, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Deputy Speaker, Deputy … from this podium on February 11, to deliver the annual State of…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… Historians recognise the significance of popular struggles over the past 100 years. But debates … to formal political formations continue to rage. In light…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… book communist saboteurs who were planning the overthrow of the South African government. This Bill was aimed at … him as minister for over-emphasising the…
Mme Makwena Matlala
… District, Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo )] because of the attitude of the Acting Chieftainess”¦much difficulty … consultative style of leadership and…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
… Australian landscapes in Johannesburg. Always in pursuit of views, she often arrived uninvited on remote farms … The Press romanticised her as an artist in…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… Today, January 8th, we observe the 77th anniversary of the people's movement, the African National Congress. I … which has remained true to its nature as a…
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
… community worker Florence Barbara Ribeiro was the fourth of five children. Her father, Henry Mathe, was a labourer in … lived at Glebelands, Natal and in…
PlaceAddington, Township of Durban
… Township in Durban, North of the Point and West of the Beachfront. It was laid out by the Natal Government … Addington Hospital , a 571 bedded and 2 200…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner The principle of our ideal … another by competition. Trade unÂions and capitalists, state and church…
BiographySir. Julius Jeppe
… as a mining and property magnate as a clerk in the firm of Schiffman and Company in Pretoria, and quickly rose to a managerial position. However, with the…