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BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel…
The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Ma
Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom
Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom
BiographyLaura Jean Levetan
Laura Jean Levetan was born in Cape Town in 1955, the third child of Lionel and Marie Levetan. Their household was steeped in Anti-apartheid politics and Laura…
BiographyHargreaves Nkosana Mbodla
Between 1959 and 1962, eight people were banished from various districts of Mpondoland, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape]. They included some of those who…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… what are now the Eastern Cape and the Free State. As the map below shows, the various groups took widely different …
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League…
BiographySally Gross
Born on August 22, 1953 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Sally Gross is one of the most challenging and important figures in our country’s history. Gross was born…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice (née Stuurman) Fula –…
BiographyBenson Tsele
Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… publisher Justus Perthes of Gotha in Germany published a map of Natal and South African Free States. He wrote: “The …
’We are of the world and the world is with us’, Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 May 1986
Report of Interview by Some NRC Members with Prime Minister Jan C. Smuts; Verbatim Report of the Proceedings; Press Conference Remarks by Paul R. Mosaka and Professor Z. K. Matthews; and statement by Professor Matthews, May 8-9, 1947
BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district…
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
Frederick Timpson I'Ons was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyWopko Jensma
Wokpo was born on 26 July 1939 in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom, but his studies were temporally…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…
Samuel Malinga
Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 1977.He had been detained at his home in…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
BiographyMtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana
Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a renowned saxophonist born on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth. The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at…
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew…
BiographyVera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
… state. Universities lost their darling status. The road map to crush the universities was laid out in the wake of the …
PlaceKwaMashu
… Cato Manor during the period of 1958 to 1965. View Larger Map Formerly a sugar cane plantation, KwaMashu’s name is a …
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… and means ‘new home’. Origin of Khayelitsha View Larger Map Then Prime Minister, P.W. Botha promised fair treatment …
ArticleParties involved in the history of elections in South Africa
The South African Labour Party (SALP) The South African Party (SAP) The South African National Party (SANP) Hersigte Nasionale Party (HNP) The Unionist…