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Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… performances made waves and rode them, to quote from one of their songs, they have never ridden waves like these. … Nixon and Mnukwana shone as sound weavers…
Jacob Monakgotla
… and move to Ledig. Conflict occurred within the tribe with one group following Chieftainess Katherine Monnakgotla,who …
BiographyNomhle Nkonyeni
… and she touched so many souls with her contribution. One of the streets in New Brighton where she grew up was …
BiographyVincent Mbamama Hlamandana
… culminated in the burning down of approximately 193 huts, one death and several injuries between 30 April and 3 May …
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
… his return to Angola, he was appointed Staff Commissar in one of the training camps at Qiubaxe, Angola. In June 1984 he …
Robert Mokxotho Matji
… (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). One of the chief organizers of the Defiance Campaign in Port …
BiographyBoy Seopa
… of banishment to work in Johannesburg, noting that, ‘No one gave me permission to leave Davhana to work in …
BiographyRodger Bosch
… for young, disadvantaged photographers in Cape Town as one of the founder members of the Icon Image Project. …
Afrikaner
… existence. The migrant farmers and pioneers who took part in the Great Trek into the interior didn't have any kind … in government and schools. Festivals…
PlaceUNISA’s Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
… in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope . It is one of the few that continued to provide tertiary education … and one-on-one training sessions…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… more historically significant, buildings in the area. One of the greatest casualties in terms of heritage was the … Hazard and Risk Assessment for Tulbagh,…
Indian Community
… fact the Act meant the expropriation of Indian property. One of the main ideas behind this being city cleanup and … was a poor one where entertainment was an…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… their South African citizenship and makes them citizens of one of the homelands or Bantustans irrespective of their … with restriction orders by the Minister…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… the 10th of August 1964; it was dated 12 July 1964. One wonders how quick the letters can be if they take a month to reach one. In any case darling it is not…
ArticleTswana
… in small chiefdoms, in which status was determined in part by relationship to the chief. Unlike the Nguni, Sotho … residential areas, often occupied by…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Mtshole were arrested and charged with terrorism for their part in the murder of Munsieville police constable, Johannes … court where they denied that…
Hinduism
… Hinduism What do Hindus believe? Hindus believe in one god that appears in different forms. Source: www.theholidayspot.com Hindus believe in one God, or…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… 1894, Sigcau granted mineral, railway and land rights to one company in return for money. However, Chiefs were … by shooting at them. Two police officers…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… other to find ways of influencing the convention. This, in part, laid the basis for a single national organization. In … but the question stood out as an…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
… by nine men because of his parents’ resistance. Not one to back down, Mkhize continued the fight, despite the … awarded Mkhize the National Order of Luthuli…
BiographyMono Badela
… weekly paper, South, in 1992, Badela was already there as one of the paper's top correspondents. At short notice, he … in the Department of Communications,…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… from a Johannesburg jail by bribing a guard, setting off one of the nation's largest manhunts. For days Wolpe and … synthesis, Harold was without any doubt…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He is influenced by one of his lecturers, Cecil Ntloko, a follower of the … and is fired from the school in Standerton…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… absorbed the female population. In more recent times, one tends to think of slavery in terms of the capture of … lends itself to heartlessness and cruelty,…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… because she was unable to stay with him, as he became a part of the resistance. The narrator holds pride for what his … passivity and action, and encourages…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms part of our larger feature on the People of South Africa. It … and the Transvaal and Cape Indian…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… man. What you have just witnessed could be described as one old man giving another old man two old notebooks. And let … they simply destroyed them. For all…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… future membership should be by invitation only. One might criticise him today but, he was a son of his time. … USA The third Olympic Games was hosted by…
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… if the third attempt would finally earn Coetzee the big one. Coetzee won the match by knock out in the tenth, and went from the boxer known as ‘the one who…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… trusted and tried organisation, the A.N.C. It remains the one and only vanguard of the oppressed people in this … political wing will ever remain the…