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Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… For the student Discussion Questions Who was the founder of the Mali Empire? Which city was considered a centre of learning during the Mali Empire? What is a…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… town only nine years old. South Africa was certainly one of the first countries in the world to see and hear sound … Lingards Waxworks in Durban, who…
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… Streitwolf hold a meeting to discuss the shooting of alleged Herero cattle thieves by a settler named Bulack. … Rademacher's Waterberg patrol arrives at the…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… Master of Ceremonies UMama wethu uMam` Sarah Umndeni wonke wakwa … the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress Ministers and Deputy…
Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Kingdom : an area controlled by a particular person … particular thing or idea is important…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Sam Kahn, leader of the Communist Party of South African (CPSA) and natives' representative in … than a thousand communists joined the African National…
BiographyFranco Frescura
… while his mother, Fiore (nee Cottiero), came from a family of small industrialists and landowners. A second son, Fabio, … that Franco’s parents, like many…
ArchiveList of Members of the Satyagraha Movement
… The chapter was taken from the book Pioneers of the Satyagraha, Indian South Africans Defy Racist Laws, … List of Members of the Satyagraha Movement …
BiographyGeraldine Fraser-Moleketi
… for a Lower Secondary Teachers’ Diploma at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). As she had grown up under the guidance of her grandmother, who was a…
BiographyDerek Andre Hanekom
… was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool Jan van … his farming experience to win abroad support…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… The Honourable President of the University, Esteemed Members of the Convocation, … of the role of our organisation, the African National Congress and a…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… Development Trust recognises on this important occasion of the centenary of Phoenix Settlement, the outstanding … serving as the President of the South…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He … Worker’s Union (ICU) ,1920s and in 1926 he…
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… African National Congress (ANC) launches mass boycott of Ba ntu Education. Bantu education referred to the … It handed over leadership to the Women's League…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… Invitation The HSRC Seminar Series In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after … the good society. The South African Native National…
BiographyC. S. Mabaso
… about 20 years he also was the secretary and bookkeeper of Abantu-Batho, the African National Congress (ANC) newspaper. He was a member of the Transvaal…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
… born in the Cape and educated at Healdtown. At the time of Bhambatha Rebellion in 1906, he was chaplain to a … labor battalion. In the late 1920s he was…
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… a choir, and traveled throughout Europe performing. One of the highlights was the 1897 Jubilee at the London Royal … took part in political activities in the…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… This Way I Salute You September 2007 Oswald Mtshali Sounds of A Cowhide Drum, Renoster Press 1971 Fireflames 1980 … with Serote by Duncan Brown …
Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
… During the weekend of 24th to 26th May, 1986, delegations of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce (NAFCOC) and the African National…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Situated in front of the Rustenburg Town Hall, the work depicts Kruger during … viewed as an "Icon of Apartheid" by some African National Congress activists…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
… and seven sisters. He is the 10th child in a family of 12. Until he was baptised, he did not know the date of his … following a massive miners' strike. He…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… on 24 February 1851. His father was a Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Madras Light Infantry. Beaumont attended … the representatives from Natal to be invited…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… years after the first Treason trial in 1956, 16 members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) were accused of treason … with endorsing the ideas of the banned…
ArticleCONFERENCE PROGRAMME: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
… 23-25 November 2016, University of the Witwatersrand (Venue: John Moffat Building and … CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… Whatever the virtues of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) – we are assured it still has a few – it was … how the ANC was commanding…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… On 6 September 1960, six of the Treason Trial accused were missing when the trial … Trengove, for the Crown. He said that the African National Congress(ANC)…
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
… Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a … In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the Industrial and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… Today, January 8th, marks the 81st anniversary of the African National Congress. We observe this important date at a moment when our … The Charter expresses…