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BiographyGarth Erasmus
… at Hewat Training College in Cape Town. He received a set of oil paints as a 21st birthday gift ”” this prompted him to … Arts Associates in the Cape, a…
BiographyRosalie van der Gucht
… position as assistant in speech training at the University of Cape Town (UCT), which she accepted. She soon found … many performances. In 1946 she was…
BiographyDr. Phuthuma Seoka
… Progress, Johannesburg (Tributaries). Market Gallery (Out of Africa). 1986: WITS (two-person exhibition with Dr Jim … Western Cape. WITS (Standard Bank…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
… training before was deployed to South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU) underground machinery in Botswana. … in a fierce pre dawn cross border attack…
BiographyAnneke Laurie
… birth, the family was forced to leave the country because of the civil war. Since then her family has moved to … in documentary photography since her third…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the … fiasco. In 1913, government officials in the Orange Free State…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the … fiasco. In 1913, government officials in the Orange Free State…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… NEC members and provincial leadership, Leadership of the Tripartite Alliance; The Moroka Family; Esteemed … gathered this afternoon, to reflect on the life…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… to arrive in a steady stream. From 1914, the population of newcomers to the Rand increased even more rapidly. With their different backgrounds and…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… that she made to the constitutional transformation of South Africa. It is important to remember that when … most African countries it was an artificial…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… few words to bring this Special Congress to a close. Vote of thanks First a word of thanks. For myself, and on behalf of the new Executive you … believe the…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … this time, the British Indians in the Transvaal were full of…
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
… 2. He was shot 3 times by the police – twice in the back of his head and in his buttock. He left behind his wife, two … responsibilities and listened to…
Maggie Smith
… and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the press … example. A highly political person and an…
BiographyThomas Selema Masekela
… and then returned to Randjesfontein and became principal of the Masekela school there. He remained there for five … he came into contact with Dr C.P. Anning,…
BiographyRuben Xulu
… Hiabisa mission station and embarked on a life-long career of producing religious sculptures for missions in Natal. Unlike Gcwensa, who because of ill-health…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… The Nile river and its influence on settlement The tomb of Tutankhamen Way of life in ancient Egypt The spread of Egypt’s knowledge … household, priesthood…
BiographyPatricia Horn
… vendors and she is currently the International Coordinator of an alliance of street vendors, Street Net. … Trade unionist and interntiona co-ordinator of…
BiographyMoritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein
… in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From … in 1970. He wrote a historical novel called Ama…
BiographyLeoni Marinovich
… Leoni has co- produced one 24 minute documentary, Village of the Spirits, for SABC2 (2001), a 52 minute film on the … managed accounts totalling USD 1…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… June 1946 and finally suspended on 31 May 1948. The report of the Passive Resistance Council, reproduced here almost in … May 1947. The report contains three…
BiographyJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo
… Muafangejo returned to Ovambo in 1976 and a collection of his prints, selected by Walter Battiss, was published. In … Awards: 1981: Republic Festival, Durban…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the Great War which had claimed … new paths for financial capital in South…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the Great War which had claimed … new paths for financial capital in South…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Two of our most loved women leaders, Mary Moodley and Lilian … that is to say any gathering at which any form of…
BiographyHerschelle Herman Gibbs
… became his first choice. His career began at the early age of 16 when he debuted for the national cricket team, the … 1999 and the other in 2003 in South…
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
… born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, where … worked with Ballinger for some time…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, died after a short … 1920s, Parry attended Good Hope Seminary, an all-girls’ state school…