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BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… wing of the ANC, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). His training as part of MK was a particular set of skills he utilised …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
'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…
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. …
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Vol. 4 Part 1 [1980-1990], Pretoria: Unisa Press.|South African …
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…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… Far from being a united force for a significant part of the 1930s, the ANC was plagued by divisions and … between the European inhabitants of the Union on…