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BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
… on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education organisations, including National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA), Union of…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth … repressive 1950s. Mini was tasked by the South…
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
… known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a … Reddy, was a follower of Gandhi and president of…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… family moved to Elandslaagte, Northern Natal, the centre of coal mining, where they felt that there would be better … bodies. In the early 1920's PR joined…
BiographyAlex Tikana
… Anger at the unilateral imposition of state policies and attempts to appoint pliant pro- Kaizer … It was held that Tikana’s banishment would erode the …
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
… 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained … President Nelson Mandela and other…
BiographyRustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu
… He arrived in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) at the age of seventeen, worked in an aerated waters company, and later became a prosperous businessperson…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma Nkondo left Lorenco Marques … they attended meetings addressed…
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
… in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 to 1961…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a … As a consequence, Mogoba joined the African…
BiographyMargaret Gazo
… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918. She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were … march. Margaret Gazo,…
BiographyLindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, Walter and Albertina…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a teacher and later … and Speech and Drama. The banning…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who … Fields Advertiser. When the South…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg , daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young … of Durban. Dr GM Naicker , President…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
… where he completed Standard Six (Grade Eight). At the age of 15 he became an apprentice upholsterer at a furniture … The person behind the challenge was…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… at Natal University for a BA degree (now University of KwaZulu-Natal -UKZN). At the time the University would not … as a teacher. He gravitated towards the…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past. His grandfather, a Talmudic … on charges of treason arising from his…
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
… Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King … the homeland system he made contact with African…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… Compatriots, Once more it is January 8th, the anniversary of your movement, the African National Congress. Today we observe its 76th year of active struggle …
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
… finally settling in Swekwati Kamamole. In 1945, at the age of seven he was sent to live with his aunt in Alexander … when he saw a picture of MB Yegwa an…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
… Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and … squad.Coetzee ordered the deaths of many…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… in religion and politics from an early age. At the age of 14 he became a sexton Dutch Reformed Church's Sendingkerk (a coloured offshoot of the white Dutch…
BiographyManonmoney "Ama" Naidoo
… fruit and vegetables to hotels. Mononmony was the fifth of nine children and the only daughter. Mononmony married … (FEDSAW) when it was formed in 1954. She…
Constitution of The republic of South Africa.108 OF 1996
… Constitution of The republic of South Africa.108 OF 1996 …
BiographySadie Forman
… communist movements. Four years later, he would become one of the 156 men and women accused in the Treason Trial that … degree, in psychology. A member of…
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… The Government of the Republic of South Africa announced in Parliament that … In April 1960, the government banned the African National Congress (ANC), the…
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ArchiveAnalysis of the Interim report of the [Schlebusch] Commission of Inquiry
… Report by the National Union of South African Students on the conclusions of the Select Committee to investigate four organisations, including NUSAS (the…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Sons and daughters of Africa: On behalf of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress, I have great pleasure in…
ArchiveAn analysis of the interim report of the Commission of Inquiry
… An analysis of the Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry, including the establishment of the Commission and the operation of the Commission. … An analysis of the…