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BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
BiographyEnos Mabuza
Enos Mabuza was born on 6 June 1939 at the Sheba Gold Mine. He attended the Sheba Mine School until Std 4 and moved to Barberton Community School until Std 6…
BiographyNoria Mabasa
Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year, having to walk three…
BiographyOhm Collins Chabane
Ohm Collins Chabane was born on 15 April 1960 in Xikundu Village, in Limpopo (then Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of…
BiographyGerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of…
BiographyGerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyThozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta
Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High School in…
BiographyGwede Mantashe
Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa…
BiographyHelen Joseph
Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Easebourne, United Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a…
BiographyPitso John Mosimane
Pitso John Mosimane was born on 26 July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg. He is a former South African football player and…
BiographyDr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
BiographyNathaniel James Merriman
Born in Marlborough, England, on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…
BiographyAudrey Coleman
Audrey Coleman was born in 1933. When she was twenty years old she married businessman Max Coleman. They had four sons, and became active members of the…
BiographyMagade Madapu
Magade Madapu, Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana and William Tyabashe, from Tsolo District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] were issued with banishment orders on…
BiographyWilliam Tyabashe
William Tyabashe, Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana andMagade Madapu, all from the Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], wereissued with banishment…
BiographyMartin Nambala Wilpard
Martin Nambala Wilpard was acknowledged as the Chief of the Ondonga community in Ovamboland, South West Africa [now Namibia]. It was claimed that he was…
PlaceOdendaalsrus, Free State
… was found in 1946, Odendaalsrus earned its place on the map, attracting a number of settlers who wanted to be a part … was found in 1946, Odendaalsrus earned…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
As population in the freehold townships swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in Sophiatown were themselves…
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
Nontetha Nkwenkwe is one of the most remarkable female religious leaders associated with independent churches in the 1920s. Born in King Williamstown in 1875,…
A youth dies after being assaulted by a vigilante group in the Ciskei, allegedly led by an MP for Zwelitsha, Mr Kolisile Willia
Birth of Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck in Culemborg, the Netherlands. Van Riebeeck landed at the southern tip of Africa on 6 Ap
Dr Viljoen answers in parliament in response to a speech by Mr Peter Gastrow MP (National Democratic Movement) on behalf of Pee
The Women’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein, to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during Anglo-Boer War 2, ma
PlaceOyster Bay
… on tough rugged landscape, so you may want to remember a map and refreshments!2 The area is also a registered site for …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
Amos Ndwalane
Struggle veteran Amos Ndwalane, who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990, was allowed out of his…