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BiographyHester Elizabeth Cornelius
… was born in 1912. Due to poor living conditions and lack of opportunities, in 1920 Hester together with her sister … During this period, white workers were…
BiographyTony Sithembiso Yengeni
… Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town. Yengeni was a member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) under the leadership of Steve Biko before joining the…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
… Boys High School in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in … was seconded to Lisbon University through…
BiographyFezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)
… for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the trial that she was named Kwhezi or Accuser X. Her family spent much of her early life in exile…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot…
BiographyMarion Gill
… from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, … her true medium when she went to the…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
… valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe,…
BiographyAri Sitas
… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a professor and the head…
BiographyDumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula
… From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications and in…
BiographyConnie Mofokeng
… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… myths in words and pictures. SchlÁ¶sser’s collation of his texts into a Bantubibel in 1977 in part addresses Christianity and its rejection of traditional…
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth … years imprisonment in Robben Island for the activities of PAC armed wing Poqo …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education For a moment let's consider history as a journey through time and space. For much of this…
John Alfons Pandeni
… Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and … People’s Liberation Army of…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
BiographyIan David Kitson
… in World War Two, he studied engineering at the University of Natal then and spent eight years in Britain. Later he studied politics and economics at Ruskin…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
… in 1948.’ He pursed Medical studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1950s, but they were … and ‘to become a full-time political organiser…
BiographyMichael Barry
… 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until 1981. In 1985, he ……
”Racial problems in South Africa”, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the second Pan-African Youth Seminar Dar Es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… Pamphlet published by World Assembly of Youth Racial problems in South Africa There is unquestionably much which could be said on the subject of racial…
"Racial Problems in South Africa": Speech at the Second Pan-African Youth Seminar by O. R Tambo, Dar es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… is unquestionably much which could be said on the subject of racial problems. I think I could speak to you on the … that what I might do today is to…
PlaceNigeria
… claim that little is known about the earliest history of Nigeria. By 2000 B.C. most of Nigeria was thinly occupied by people who had a basic … and…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… Ntsikelelo Sandi will lead you with questions on behalf of the Commission. ADV SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairman. Let me … today to tell us about Mr Sobukwe. We…
BiographyConny Braam
… struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This organisation offered support to … the Dutch public. In 1986 Braam was…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
… was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the … for three years in the Education…
BiographyCecil Sols
… Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities…
BiographyNhlanhla Benjamin Nsusha
… College in 1972, ELC 1975-1977 and at the Slade School of Art, London, from 1983 to 1985. In 1988 he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in sculpture from the…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
… active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took place. In 1956, 156 Congress … the…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC national executive committee from 1949 to 1955 and … numerous conferences. While he shared…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
… by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary of the Orange Free State African National Congress (ANC) and was secretary of the Industrial and…