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BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
… forming the Garment Worker’s Union (GWU) with the help of Emil Solomon Sachs . Johanna quickly got involved in the … years. Many workers also got involved in…
BiographyIan Berry
… him as an immigrant and taught him the technical basics of photography while employing him as an assistant. Berry … his own studio, but became bored with the…
BiographyVictor Poto
… (later Fort Hare), and was installed as paramount chief of western Pondoland in 1918. He was progressive as a chief, … Council. From 1937 until 1951 he was a…
BiographyJoan Hoskyn Davies
… Transvaal Archives Depot. In 1957 she was appointed head of the new Liaison Department, and was involved with … After a period in England, Davies was…
Blessing Mabaso
… Botha, Johannes Steyn and Laurence Wasserman for killing of Blessing Mabaso, Brian Memela, Luvuyo Mgobozi and Mbongeni … on the N2 highway in Durban. The…
Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson
… restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two years later became the editor of its monthly magazine,He was the…
PlaceZimbabwe
… The earliest settlement of the area now known as Zimbabwe goes back about 100 000 … Union (RICU ) and the Southern Rhodesian African National Congress (SRANC…
BiographyAlson Ntshangase
… School; he had to leave school in Standard 9 due to lack of finances. He is largely self-taught as an artist. He … houses. He moved to Durban in 1982 where…
BiographyOscar Hollander
… Germany, 1864. He lived in SA from 1889; date and place of death not known. Information on Oscar Hollander, who … studied for a time under the latter. It is…
George John Golding
… in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then Cape Town. He was chairman of the Coloured Advisory Council, set up in 1943, and was … He was a founding member in 1944 and…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
… at Peninsula Technikon, which he completed in 2001. Part of the course was a section on photojournalism. Extra lessons … in photography included a short…
BiographyThembile Benson Ndimba
… Came to active politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten and one of Korsten's leaders since then. … Active…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor … died in 1975, but he lives on through the…
BiographyOliver Kgadime Matsepe
… 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua Matsepe, senior police sergeant and the grandson of Chief Bloeu of the Kopa tribe. Although…
BiographyJosepha Selhorst
… Mariannhill, Natal from 1951-52. Selhorst made a number of study tours to Europe, living there from 1971-1980 and … from 1949 in South Africa and Italy and…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… 1935 1 Another year has just closed, but the lapse of time really never ends, it is but the year that ends. The … Africa their home. " In 1920 the Federation…
BiographyMichael Lapsley
… Born in New Zealand on the 2nd of June, 1949. At the age of seven, Michael entered the Society of Sacred Mission and then dropped his first name “Allan” to …
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…
BiographyDeton (Tito) Zungu
… first as a gardener and then as a cook. In 1970 a friend of Zungu's showed his work to his employer Mary Clarke, who brought it to the attention of Jo Thorpe…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… to make visible what had been invisible; to find ways of articulating through the medium of photography, a reality obscured by government propaganda. … of…
BiographyAdam Glasser
… where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music director Stanley ‘Spike’ … him musically, handing him his…
BiographyTielman Johannes de Villiers Roos
… the “Young Turks” gathered around him. Towards the end of 1912 Botha dismissed J B M Hertzog from his cabinet and Roos protested by demonstrating at the…
BiographyBusisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
… under the name Victoria Mhlongo. Her 1963 version of My Boy Lollipop became a national hit and her career … an African tour with the singer Letta Mbulu . For…
BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
… under George Boys who introduced him to the techniques of batik and mono printing. Around 1970 Hlatywayo travelled … National Gallery in Salisbury, now the…
BiographyJackson Lehupa
… He also supported extended family members, including three of his brother’s and three of his sister’s children. According to his customary law … after his…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
… out on several trips to Namibia with Mr. E Schweikerdt of Pretoria. Several of his works have been reproduced locally by E Schweikerdt (Pty) Ltd; and one…
BiographyHestrie Cloete
… Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She grew up in the small town of Coligny , Western Transvaal (now North West Province ) with her mother Martie and father Willem…
BiographyMakhaya Ntini
… in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's development program. Raymond … introducing the game to rural boys. Ntini…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… Contents Early settlement patterns of exclusion Towards racial segregation Segregated city … early settlement were established at the Cape, patterns of…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, … while Reagans smiles and Thatcher grins…