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Naboth Monyadioe Moreleba Mokgatle, trade unionist, political activist and writer, is born in Saron, Phokeng, Rustenburg. He le

David Dabede Mabuza portrait

David Dabede Mabuza

Ari Sitas portrait

Ari Sitas

Marlene van Niekerk portrait

Marlene van Niekerk

Eschel Mostert Rhoodie portrait

Eschel Mostert Rhoodie

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe portrait

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe

Edgar Harry Brookes portrait

Edgar Harry Brookes

ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o

… to be followed, in later years, by other volumes including Writers in Politics (1981 and 1997); Decolonising the Mind …

Peter McKenzie Brown portrait

Peter McKenzie Brown

Aleta Michaletos portrait

Aleta Michaletos

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Bessie Amelia Head, novelist, short story writer and social historian is born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a Wh

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Andrew Geddes Bain, a pioneer SA geologist, road engineer, explorer and writer, dies in Cape Town. He constructed Bain’s Kloof

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Engela Elizabeth Helena van Rooyen, SA novelist who also writes under her married name as Engela Linde, is born.

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Ramola Makan, freelance consultant, writer of several cookery books and recipient of inter alia the Silwood Kitchen Honorary Gr

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William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G

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The Afrikaans writer Breyten Breytenbach is sentenced in the Pretoria Supreme Court to nine years imprisonment for offences und

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Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape.

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Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, dies in Johannesb

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Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b

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Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b

Resisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018

Resisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018

… this did not keep him from making connections with fellow writers like James Matthews whom he met for the first time in … of the Black-oriented tabloid Golden City Post. The two writers developed a strong bond mainly rooted in their common … in supporting the causes of early South African writers such as Richard Rive and James Matthews. Firstly, it …

Olive Schreiner portrait

Olive Schreiner

Walter Sidney Felgate portrait

Walter Sidney Felgate

Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson

Soli Philander

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Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, is born in King W

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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven, SA author and writer of the words of Die Stem, dies at his home ‘Arbeidsgenot’ in Oudtshoorn.

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Dalene Matthee, laurelled Afrikaans writer, is born in Riversdal, CP. Her best-known book, Kringe in ‘n bos (Circles in a for

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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, dies near King William’s Town. His first collection of poems, Imihobe

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse again writes to Broderick asking for reasons for the War Department’s refusal to include her i