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BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… for Rural Advancement (Afra) was formed by him in response to apartheid forced removals and farm labour …
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… came together in Johannesburg to discuss a common response. A committee, comprised of Moses Kotane , Yusuf …
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… Africa the then Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, coined the term ‘Rainbow Nation’ to encapsulate the … rainbow nation at peace with itself and…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… the anti-South African sports boycott, and the early response to the campaign he initiated and pursued virtually …
BiographyJane Alexander
… Made in the mid-Eighties, the Butcher Boys were a response to the dehumanizing effects of Apartheid. The …
BiographyEdward Sineke Tyaliti
In a letter to the NAD [Native Affairs Department] Secretary dated 14 August 1958, the CM [Chief Magistrate] claimed that [Kaizer] Matanzima was keen on…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… Gelewer op die Kerklike Kongres van die Gefedereerde Ned. Geref. Kerke in Suid-Afrika. (Bloemfontein: N. G. Sendingpers … Gelewer op die Kerklike Kongres van…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… to introduce gender-responsive budgets. Following the 1996 World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China (for … legislative priorities were enacted …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… significant and formative role in the area. The Hervormde Kerk, a Calvinist body linked to the mother body in The … missionary work. A church was established…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… of the ANC from Mozambique, including Jacob Zuma. In response, the ANC moved him to Lusaka, Zambia where he was … the EFF began to use the slogan, ‘pay back…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… cultural heritage. In an address marking Heritage Day in 1996, former President Nelson Mandela stated: "When our first … most notable being that of Arch…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
Joseph Mathunjwa was born in Amatikulu in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 26 May 1965. He is the son of David Mathunjwa, who was a Christian preacher. He…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… On 15 April 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… Communist Party and the ANC, or face expulsion. Bopape’s response was that as a representative of the people, he was …
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… intellectual framework that shaped South Africa’s 1996 constitution. In portraying rural South Africa as a … Africa being a whole body of united races and…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… claim that “disablement is nothing to do with the body” (1996) is one that clashes with the historical focus of bodily … prisoner (Coetzee, 1997, p. 6),…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… claim that “disablement is nothing to do with the body” (1996) is one that clashes with the historical focus of bodily … prisoner (Coetzee, 1997, p. 6),…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… 1907. Historisch Albium van de Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk in Zuid Afrika. Kaapstad: Cape Times. I9l0. Historisch Album van de Nederduitsche…
BiographyMary Thipe
… known as the Potato Boycott of 1959, a boycott that was in response to the inhumane treatment of Black workers on potato …
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… ill and dies at the age of 73. He is buried in the Groote Kerk , Cape Town. …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Deputy Chairperson of the Mitchells Plain Community Rapid Response Unit (CRRU). In this role, she worked alongside …
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… enabled him to play important roles in South Africa’s response to not only rinderpest but other animal diseases …
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… teacher, and through private study he qualified as an N.G Kerk missionary in 1896. He went on to minister in Hermanus, … appointed the first full-time…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… for the expulsion of SAASU from the international body. In response, FINA sent a Commission to investigate South African …
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
… had a functional role to play in their emancipation. The response was incredibly positive: “People took it seriously”, …
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… reacting to the State’s violence against the masses. In response to the shootings of June 16, he said: “We see it as …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… African opinion leaders and thinkers to draft an African response to the Atlantic Charter, authored by Roosevelt and …
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyAnthony Richard Stubbs
… many Black priests. There Stubbs identified Desmond Tutu as potentially the first Black principal of the … tackled him over an extra-marital relationship…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…