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BiographyMarthinus Wessel Pretorius
… Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries Pretorius, and the first president of the South African Republic…
BiographyDavid Hartman
… settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman … In his own opinion this trip deepened…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg , during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was … Oil. Makeba’s mother was also a sangoma,…
BiographyJansie Lourens
… Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of…
BiographyEdward Sonnyboy Bhengu
… 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the first born son of Pasquale “Grovaa” Mattera, and the eldest…
Khela Ngobese
… Correspondence College.He started painting at the age of seven and his mother continually encouraged the young boy … his mother’s brother having been Arthur…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
… Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary school at…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
… (ANC) in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the ANC Women’s League in 1954, and in 1955 became the … secretary. She was also on the executive…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Prisoners of apartheid July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years since the leadership of the South African … with not unexpected consequences for the…
BiographyDinah Molefe
… For over twenty years she unobtrusively produced some of the most original and creative studio pots. She used the restricted Rorke’s Drift palette of brown,…
BiographyJan Celliers
… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State … managed to slip through the enemy…
BiographyHarold Strachan
… in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts,…
BiographyBertram Dumbleton
… periods in England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown on SASA exhibitions in … acquired by the SANG. They…
BiographyRicardo Rangel
… February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his … on urban life in Mozambique, depicting…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … a defiant spirit. He declared: ‘That with 8 000 000 out of 10…
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
… Premier of Mpumalanga, Ndaweni Mahlangu, Our traditional leaders, MP's, MEC's, MPL's and Councillors, Leaders of our youth and young South Africans, People…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… a defiant spirit. He declared: ‘That with 8 000 000 out of 10 000 000 organised in a determined struggle, supported by India and Asia, and the rest of the…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… Your Excellency Mr. Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency President Abdou Diouf, President of Senegal and Chairman of…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… Your Excellency Mr. Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency President Abdou Diouf, President of Senegal and Chairman …
Watson Mzwandile Majova
… Mzwandile Majova, Paulos Madiba, Aaron Makwe, members of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we … Reconcilaition Commission prepared to…
BiographyMarthinus Hattingh
… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh … his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon at the end of 1995. While studying he…
BiographyMilner Langa Kabane
… in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown. He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, earning a bachelor's degree in 1925…
BiographyJames D. Ngojo
… He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was later withdrawn. As an official of the Cape Congress he attended the 1927 Non…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
… Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. Also associated … Arakala? - a small class…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Bad as conditions were in factories, the evil of homework was even worse. The worker who is compelled to … his home into a workshop usually belongs to the…
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… Wynberg is certainly one of the most interesting Areas in Cape Town. It is home to one of the oldest Schools in the Country (Wynberg Boys), with its … is a…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… Qabula was taken in to live with the O’Rielleys – friends of his fathers. A month later, his younger brother moved to … to their home in Flagstaff. Qabula…
BiographyStephen Mini
… He was an early leader of the African National Congress (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…
BiographyRooha Variava
… a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree … and her Masters in Philosophy in 1982…
BiographyThozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta
… was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … job that opened his eyes to the poverty…