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BiographyAzaria Mbatha
… passed in 1976. Mbatha studied Fine Arts at the University of Lund from 1977 to 1979. On completion of this degree he continued studying social sciences at…
BiographyRev. George Champion
… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from … from Cape Town on “The Dove” and proceeded to…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… In the months after I started my incessant round of speaking engagements in 1985 I found that there was a … the Black Consciousness Movement, the Pan…
BiographyChief Sekonyela
… He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His father was Mantatisi, who was … in 1823. In the early 1830s Sekonyela…
BiographyHenry Mshololo
… objects such as wooden spoons and meat platters. One of his special interests is carving violins and sculptures of angels. He has participated in group…
Michael Shivute
… Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa police cells … less than 24 hours later.An inquest…
Clarence Lucky Payi
… Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the orders of a rogue MK commander, assassinated ANC underground operative Ben Langa (the brother of Pius Langa) on…
BiographyLucky Sibiya
… Seminary, Hammanskraal. His early art career consisted of carving decorative motifs on the surfaces of gourds for lampshade bases. He was given guidance by…
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…
Mama Beshenga
… During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act , there was great panic and … give moral support…
BiographyVincent Oliphant
… where he matriculated. He then went to the University of the Western Cape, where he did a B.Sc. degree with … M.Ed. degrees at Rhodes University. Oliphant's…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important … and economic. During the Cold War, South Africa was of strategic importance in the…
BiographyLionel Davis
… seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage. It was during his prison years on Robben Island … him to complete a BA Fine Art degree…
Millicent Fawcett
… Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain … in getting this group put together, but was not part of the committee that came…
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These … chow" originated. The "bunny chow" was an invention born of the City’s racist…
BiographyRev. Joseph J Doke
… the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from … Edited Indian Opinion in 191,1…
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
… B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he…
BiographyNorma Kitson
… to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of four children, and had an elder sister Joan and brother … Her father was a chemist by training…
BiographyHannah Lurie
… She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London … for her bronze sculpture. She has served as…
BiographyClive Van den Berg
… was a lecturer at the Technikon Natal. He has won a number of awards and has undertaken public commissions. He has exhibited on numerous group shows and has…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
… Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to … with a colleague, was responsible for restoring a section of the Malay Quarter in…
BiographyAlan Wieder
… lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of both University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University. …
BiographyVincent Baloyi
… on the two-year course at Rorke's Drift. On completion of the course the following year, Baloyi joined the National … (Black SA Today). DAM (Art SA Today)…
BiographyCynthia Shange
… , alongside co-star Joe Mafela. Udeliwe tells the story of a country girl from Kwa Zulu-Natal to the City of Gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
… brought home an old box camera that he had dug out of a Dundee dumping lot. On his thirteenth birthday he … then a White photographer taught him the finer…
Chapter 6
… Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all … campaign took a different form. The South African Indian Congress, under the…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… National Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Baleka Mbethe Deputy Provincial … those who conceptualised and formed the African National Congress always cherished…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
… East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for … old through a newspaper article. Sono…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… The consequences of capitalism on the lives of working class people extend … this section is briefly to demonstrate that South African Congress of Trade…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Bill proposed to give the vote to all Whites at the age of twenty-one years, whilst Non-White men had to meet … and ex-Minister of Justice, Tielman Roos, at…