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BiographyWalter Battiss
… to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. … his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at…
BiographyMonty Johannes Motloung
… they were driven to Maputo by the current Deputy President of the ANC, Jacob Zuma . Motloung, together with his friends … outside Luanda, Angola. There they…
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
… in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a … She sat for her final examination…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
… with Joan Brickhill-Burke and Louis Burke’s production of the musical “Meropa” as musical director. In 1975 they … led to Ntoni enrolling at the prestigious…
BiographyChristina Jasson
… the treason trial proceedings. She was acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the…
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
… She began her professional singing career as lead singer of the all-girl group Pantha in 1979. When the group … . The band lasted for seven years and…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… Question : Mr. Tambo, you have just completed a tour of some African countries; what was the aim of this tour and what are its results? TAMBO : Our…
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
… strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the … who were engaged in a trading…
BiographyGeorge Msimang
… beginning in 1969. In 1971 and 1972, through the support of the NSA and the Italian Consulate in Durban, he attended … 1985 to 1986. Msimang makes his…
BiographyThe Taung Child
… which the spinal cord passes – was towards the front of the skull, indicating that this creature stood on two … the specimen as Australopithecus africanus …
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… The Chairperson, Comrade Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC, Members of the National Executive Committee, Regional Leaders, … government with…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… The new constitution is a celebration of the creativity of the South African people, for few, if any, other countries … democracy. The Constitution is the…
Sabata Manaka
… in Botswana, in 1982, where he was living under the name of Tshepo Nkosi. After this his family lost contact with him. Sabata Manaka died of natural…
BiographyLucky Shabalala
… Workshop in the 1980s in Durban. He has obtained a number of commissions from offices in the centre of Durban to carve heads. He carved sculptures for the…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
… Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive … in the Cape and the Orange Free State, becoming…
Lennox Madikane
… Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Second Annual Raymond Mhlaba Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 12 October 2009, Port Elizabeth
… Programme Director, Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Council Judge … Vice-Chancellor and CEO Prof Derrick Swartz; Hon Premier of the…
BiographyFrancis William Reitz
… He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. He became President of the Orange Free State in 1889. He was a…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath In the early months of 1960 the PAC leadership…
BiographyNelson Mukhuba
… with Marula and Jacaranda wood, producing sculptures of celebrities, sports personalities, and dancing figures. Some of his work has the reputation of being…
BiographyHendrik Andries Hanekom
… Andries Hanekom was born on 17 June 1893. He was the son of Hendrik Hanekom. Hanekom was educated at Beaufort West … was first employed as a municipal…
BiographyKiren Thathia
… in Durban. In 1983 he obtained a BA(FA) from University of Durban Westville (UDW); in 1988 an MA(FA) cum laude and in … in Education from UDW. He was a…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
… in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial . He was born in Natal … assisting volunteers from Alexandra…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … in the work I took on. So when the…
BiographySteve Dyer
… in 1960. He taught himself to play the guitar at the age of eleven. He studied music at the University of Natal where he obtained a degree in classical music…
Hangula Shonyeka
… In 1967 the minister of justice announced that a detainee had died in detention in … the detainee's name.In 1970,in parliament the minister of police said…
BiographyTiyo Soga
… Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, … to be ordained in an established…
BiographyZola Budd
… 1984 she gained international recognition when, at the age of 17, she broke the women's 5000m world record. As this … Africa had been banned from competing…
BiographyVictor V. T. Mbobo
… at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of the Youth League and in 1947 was chosen as the league's delegate to a conference of the World…
BiographyThomas Kgope
… Kgope was injured when he fell from the second floor of Catherine's studio and subsequently stayed with Catherine … (An Alive). 1988: Natalie Knight Gallery,…