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BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night, his mother told him to put more coal … idol, Muhammad Ali. According to…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… further reinforced by his religious teachings in Shaivism, one of the pillars of the Hindu religion. Later, this … protest group – the Theatre Council of…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… belonging to a certain type of customary law, one can narrow the scope of customary law because these … race, class, belief or sex ’. (Ebrahim, 1998) Indeed,…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… attempted to have the song and the music video banned. One critic described this as Mbuli’s “best poetic song.” In … proceedings of the case that included…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… labour existed between the two organisations. Moroka was one of the AAC members who also belonged to the ANC, having … to our programme. Like Dr Xuma, he was…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… pews were overturned. There was a hole in the floor where one grenade had exploded. Prayer books, music sheets, welcome … 1990'. http://www.doj.gov.za TRC…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… used. For this reason, and because of the focus of this chapter on organisation during the 1980s, I use the term, and … or objection intransigence ””…
BiographyMatsiketsane Mashile
… family, he was forced to leave school after standard one [Grade 3]. …
BiographyLionel Mxolisi Majombozi
… One of the group of African medical students at the …
BiographyPeter Kaya Selepe
… One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial of …
BiographyTim Bruwer
… Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came … This is my attempt to explain how I came to be an odd one out in the Afrikaner society…
BiographyMadibeng Chris Mokoditoa
… his first ban in 1973. In 1975, Mokoditoa was sentenced to one year imprisonment suspended for three years for failing …
BiographyRustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu
… and later became a prosperous businessperson. He was one of the founders of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) on …
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
… West Indies at Bridgetown, Barbados in 1991-1992 and his One Day International Debut against Australia at the 1992 … against every team except Australia. He…
BiographyMaretile Kooae
… Maretile Kooae was allegedly one of the agitators in the Witzieshoek Native Reserve, …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the … true parliament of the people, not to…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
… as many scholars have often incorrectly referred to the as one of the smaller sub-sections of Xhosa people. King Faku was the son of King Ngqungqushe one of…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… While in her matric year at Chatsworth Secondary School, one of her teachers gave her a copy of a Black Consciousness … others, Govender marched around…
BiographyPatrick “Bra Pat” Matanjana
… imprisonment on Robben Island. After 1994, Bra Pat was one of the first ex-prisoners to respond to the call to act …
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… within the changing economic situation of the 1970s. This chapter will provide arguments and present evidence as to why …
BiographyVivienne Ncakeni
… returned to Brakpan to teach in the late 1930s and became one of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African …
BiographyJacob Mafora
… charges were dropped against him in December 1957, he was one of the accused in the Treason Trial . His wife Ivy …
BiographyBabalekile Anderson Gigaba
… Nqabeni, Alfred District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] was one of four people to put forward a claim to be appointed as …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… all private capital, proceeding from the understanding, as one Commission put it, that 'unity and struggle' existed … other comments and submissions will be…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… more meaningful action, such as economic sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter and strict observance of the … is the scale of this collaboration that…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… in the Greater Johannesburg area, but there may have been one in the Klipriviersberg, where many Type N sites occur. If the Klipriviersberg area was the core…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… League. Politically it does not belong to Congress. It is one of those peculiar anomalies which arise in a political … the past. The beginning of this…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… much of the 1910s, as the Union of South Africa leapt from one crisis to the next, the SANNC was unable to mount a … of office. This led to a split in the…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… Brand was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the … it. The Whites are against the natives as two…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… by discreet conversations with two left-wing teachers. One introduced her to the songs and film of Paul Robeson, the … into the system and alert their…