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ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University … these problems, known as CODESA. Gender…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… rose to prominence in South Africa in the 1970s and forms one of Gordimer’s central focuses in Burger’s Daughter. The … to be corrected that his name is…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… friend Evelyn (at the time married to Mandela) was one of the bridesmaids. Dr Xuma, then president of the ANC, … Albertina was a founding member, but at…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… (1570-1612), with an ever increasing number of maps. 1644 One of the most decorative and popular of all early maps of … by the colorist [see the dotted lines…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… people and goods travelled to the Mozambican coast, as part of the Boers’ geopolitical project of independence, … a village, then a town, then a municipality…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led … the Namibian border. The fighting…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… African. Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions of the continent's … ‘Africa’ was first used by the Romans to describe…
BiographyBernard Mafiyeka
… of South Africa shop steward. Mafiyeka was gunned down by one of a group of four men who approached him as he walked to …
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
… African Parliament against the provisions of the Bill. As one of the joint secretaries of the SAIC, Barmania addressed … of the Bill. Barmania’s Senate…
Aaron Khoza
… All that was known was that Mr Khoza died of asphyxia.No one knew the circumstances in which he died and there was no evidence of his state of mind or his…
BiographyPaul Mokabe
… Mokabe was one of the students who stood up against the introduction of … 2007 and his remains returned to his family in Lesotho. One of his friends, Duma…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… investigate history using people as a SOURCE. This means one day you can also be a source for another history … everything was right there within your reach…
Rebecca Lan
… discussion group that encouraged young people to take part in the various campaigns which were organised in Cape …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… Cape While the Poqo remained inactive for most of 1960 and part of 1961, it was revived in 1961 with the formation of … men linked to Poqo in Paarl were…
Pottery, division of labour, trade, medicine and healing, hunting
… also gather food and do all the cooking. Lydenburg Head One set of pottery, known as the ‘Lydenburg heads,’ named … content for this section Hunting Hunting…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… economic and political discrimination of women. UWO had one structure with branches in various parts. Each branch was … maintained that the police shot…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… Mandela traces his lineage back to the Thembu Chief Nxeko, one of the early Thembu Kings who ruled over Thembuland, a … known as the Transkei and Ciskei…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… Disgrace (1999) explores many of the conventional themes one would expect from a novel set in post-apartheid South … as he tracks her down, suspecting…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
… Opera and a 1983 musical that took place in Cape Town. One of the biggest concerts he played at was in Central Park …
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… when they both returned to South Africa in 1901, Maxeke as one of South Africa's first Black woman graduates. Maxeke was … Activist, one of the first Black…
BiographyBongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa
… of the daily life of working South African women. Figure one: Removals series, Removals I, the past....the future. …
BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
… of what an African could be. He educated his children, and one of his sons became Archdeacon Crowther. Bishop Crowther …
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
… April 1984 he married Jane Stephens in Swaziland. He was one of the patrons of the MTN Foundation. In 2002 …
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… for fourteen years at the University of Fort Hare and for one year at the University of Transkei. During his teaching …
BiographyJan van Eck
… Party MPs. As a Member of Parliament, Van Eck was one of the first sitting MPs to join the ANC after the …
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… was arrested for leading an illegal procession. Thema was one of the organisers of the All-African Convention (AAC) …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… in South Africa. He wrote: 'Assassinations used as one of the methods of controlling government opposition when … on 29 April 2009]| “At last, a memorial to…
BiographyDean Hutton
… photographer of the Mail & Guardian, a Ruth First Fellow, one of the 200 Top Young South Africans, was awarded an …
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
… he attacked them. At a mass rally to inaugurate SACTU’s “one pound a day” campaign in the 1950s, Gaetsewe stated that …
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
… thousand people attended Mr Ndzanga's funeral. ,one Speaking of Mr Ndzanga,one speaker said 'He died for the liberation of the black …