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BiographyGordon Sprigg
… Gun War . He used British troops to suppress revolts by Black Africans, and put into place a harsh native policy, …
BiographyMolly Fischer
… it Bram’s unholy communist ‘experiment’ to bring up a Black child in a White family. In 1945 Fischer stood as the …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… meeting in Durban. After the meeting Naicker and 20 black volunteers walked to the Berea railway station in …
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
… Georgian and Victorian detail, latticed dormer windows and sash and the smell of thatch. Immaculate Cottages with small …
Museums, Heritage & Meaning Making Conference
Iziko Museums of South Africa is proud to host this landmark conference from 21–24 October 2025 at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town — marking 200…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and 1963 Poqo activists carried out attacks against both black and white targets, particularly in the Cape and … sentenced to death for the murder on 18…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… It had become the practice for the diamond diggers to pay black workers with guns to attract them to work at the newly … financial and administrative reforms…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… It had become the practice for the diamond diggers to pay black workers with guns to attract them to work at the newly … financial and administrative reforms…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… was aimed at further tightening existing restrictions on black people migrating into the cities. As a result pass law … organizations that took part were the…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… not PAC, they were largely students who were actors in the Black Consciousness movement. And I’m intrigued that you … Right. So what do you see the…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… system to which all other ethnic groups, be they Boer or black, should either aspire or be subjected’. Milner was also … Community, supported by well-treated…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… He was instrumental in the formation of the South African Black Alliance comprising the [Coloured] Labour Party (LP), … on the ground that the government had…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… organisations and people of all races, particularly young black people. There were to be addresses, poetry and play … the high altar for the whole twenty…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… South Africa was just one of the emerging groups of elite black South African professionals protesting inequality. The … founded in the 1800s in support of a…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… The British suffered heavy losses in became known as Black Week, in December, at Magersfontein, Colenso and … had been confining Boer women and children and…
BiographyMary Moodley
… sometimes even killed on farms. The New Age exposed the black workers’ experiences of slave-like labour conditions on …
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… was only recaptured in December, disguised as "Douglas Black". Now his trial was on far more serious charges, …
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… at John Ramsey High School. His teachers taught him about black consciousness and were heavily influenced by the …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… These were meant to counter inferior state education of Black children and to teach them to love their people and …
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
… months. While the 1995 World Cup squad included only one black player, Chester Williams, the Springboks represented …
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… storeman for the company. In 1976, the company asked its black employees to take a lie detector test: Indres refused, …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… to raise money with the goal of building schools in black townships, and these efforts resulted in the founding … Manas, Gwala, Mafika Pascal, and Thoahlane,…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… police harassment were just the least of what an average black citizen faced. In the in the long struggle of … Act. Under Apartheid, the…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… was to reinforce constitutionally the segregation of the Black populations of South Africa from the White minority as … would never work as modern industry…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… brown complexion, which is to say that he was neither black nor white. He cultivated a luxuriant moustache on his … devoid of Xhosa political authority, thus…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… whipped were his only companionship. During this time, black warders would sometimes slip him a daily newspaper or …
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… with unlettered peasants, who academics if they were black they tended to be on the same side, seeking liberation, … small number of people - which straddled…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… the majority of the people who would govern us would be black or not-white, and that we should co-operate with them, … lack of compassion for the sacrifices…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… officials in Natal, where there were over a thousand local Black preachers, and in the Transvaal, where Boer officials … but to embrace modernity. According…
EventOlive Shisana is born
Prominent South African academic, Dr Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree…