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PlaceChad
… country in Africa [i] . Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for where the human species originated [ii] . … has a long and complicated history. It was a…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history , being a day of commemoration and celebration of the…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men” that included the otherwise … colonial security agents…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902. The…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in … which Kruger’s death had brought about. On December 16, 1913 the…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… from Mozambique . It was founded in 1962 and formed a part of the Mozambican liberation movement, eventually winning … sent into exile following the…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this combination stems from the rarity of its isolated parts. Censorship, imprisonment, and exile … with a…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
… for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space is important to prevent the isolation of our various day-to-day individual and…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… base for aviation training in the Cape Town Region. Of the four original runways only two remain operational, … numerous aircraft hangars for the storage and…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… TAMBO: The events in Soweto and other parts of South Africa have become a significant milestone in the development of the liberation struggle. To assess…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… our peoples, in an earlier epoch. For example, many of the roads through our world-famous mountain passes were … Baines, more than a century and a half ago…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death in South Africa. In this context it is necessary to … keep in mind that Statssa prepares its…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … constitutional dispensation, which envisaged the creation of…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree…
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
… 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained … Johannesburg Bar. A keen soccer…
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…
BiographyHassan Howa
… Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian, Coloured mother and a Muslim shopkeeper. He … by his father Yusuf Howa,…
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…
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…
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…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… Members of the Hani family, Premier Noxolo Kiviet and members of the provincial executive, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, … demons worse for black women. He…
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…