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ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… 1995 (incorporating Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD Africans in South Africa's Wars by J S Mohlamme Introduction … of South Africa in the wars that…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone died
Steve ‘The Black Meteor’ Mokone died in Washington D.C on 20 March 2015. He would go to be one of the most recognized South African in the world because of his…
BiographyWilliam George Ballinger
… seven seats in Parliament for Whites who were to represent Africans.In 1948 his campaign became a success and he … Senate until 1960,when the Verwoerd…
EventThe father of South African Jazz Hugh Masekela dies
On 23 January 2018, Hugh Masekela passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa surrounded by his family. He died after a battle with…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… between the teaching certificates granted to Europeans and Africans who had completed teacher-training courses. A number … had developed a warm and trusting…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
… William's Town, eventually made him one of the wealthiest Africans in the Cape, rivaling such men as John Tengo Jabavu and Walter Rubusana for influence…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
… role in community life. The upliftment of his fellow Africans was especially close to his heart. He was involved in the establishment of schools for Africans…
BiographySimon Petros (Peter) Matseke
… of the PLAB in an effort to improve the well-being of Africans Matseke spoke out against inadequate policing in the … work in clinics in the locations…
ArchiveIndian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960, Edited by E. S. Reddy
… Indian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of … Indian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of …
BiographyJoseph Booth
… earliest proponents of the principle of "Africa for the Africans." He was a fanner in New Zealand, then a small … and utopian scheme of African development,…
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
… educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover in the formation of the Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… Hoernlé, who encouraged Ellen to do research among urban Africans. She was a distinguished social anthropologist and a … The book was first published in 1937…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Volume I - Methodology and African Prehistory
PlaceSouth African Royal Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town
The Royal Observatory occupies a small wooded Hill about 6 km East of central Cape Town, within a Conservation Area known as; the Two Rivers Urban Park. Its…
ArchivePhotography and African Futures by Richard Vokes and Darren Newbury
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1985 - 1993
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1975 - 1979
EventSouth African Soccer legend Lucas Radebe was born
Lucas Radebe was born in Diepkloof in Soweto. He comes from a big family of six boys and four girls. The ‘chief’, as he was affectionately known started his…
100 Years of the African National Congress by Neville Alexander
ArchiveThe South African Presidents in the 25 years of Freedom and Democracy
BiographySam Kahn
… until the party’s dissolution in 1950. Popular amongst Africans, he defended many as clients in the course of his … from 1943 to 1952, he was elected to…
EventFormer South African football coach Clive Barker is born
Legendary former Bafana Bafana coach is born in Durban, Kwazulu Natala. The ‘Dog’ as he is nicknamed, led the South African Football team to their first…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… The newspaper was owned by whites but written by and for Africans. Under Thema's editorship the paper became an … as a political technique, and co-operation…
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
… election campaign of Margaret Ballinger who represented Africans in the Eastern Cape until 1960.He then established a … of the directors of Inkundla ya…
BiographyJ. Congress M. Mbata
… Association. In 1943 he was on the committee that drew up Africans' Claims and began meeting with the group of young … of Change: The Cumulative Significance…
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
… and prevented them from making common cause with Africans. In 1939 he was elected to the national council of … year he took an active part in trying to…
EventLegendary South African Football Administrator Abdul Bhamjee dies
Former South African Football Administrator and founder of the National Soccer League (NSL) Abdul Bhamjee who was affectionately known as "Mr Soccer"…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined where it would lead…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… when the last vestiges of traditional life of rural South Africans were vanishing, he, like many other artists working … the large number of Lewis’s…
EventSouth African man sets record for world's deepest dive
South African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind's deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes'318.25m plunge beat the record…