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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade … 11 September, Gerrit Viljoen is born in Cape…
May Day
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and … the industrial struggle for an eight-hour…
PlaceMali
… Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian … fully. The Republic of Mali is one of Africa’s largest gold producers but at…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, … himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth…
Zulu Community
… Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. … work force throughout the 20th century, especially in the gold and…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 … inhabitants and an important trade centre…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … sewn [for yourself], one for Ahmed, and one for me. Have a gold…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as … From Protest to…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina Swart (nee Robberts). During the South…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… Born Makhanda but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and ……
BiographyShaka Zulu
… was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade …
’Victory is within our grasp’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa, Unesco House Paris, 16 June 1986
… ’Victory is within our grasp’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South …
Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player who made history in 2000 when he took Ajax Cape Town, the PSL and Safe to court to
… Williams, I. (2004). 'Andre Coetzee: Playmaker of the Decade,' Kick Off 1994-2004, Special Edition, p. 19-20. … who made history in 2000 when he took Ajax…
UDF Poster ‘We demand: End to High Prices SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT’ by Community Arts Project (CAP), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
… ://www.saha.org.za/udf/we_demand_end_to_high_prices_support_the_consumer_boycott_2.htm … UDF Poster ‘We demand: End to High Prices SUPPORT THE CONSUMER…
Baron Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn, who was appointed as successor to Ryk Tulbach but who died at sea on his way to the Cape
… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 158. … successor to Ryk Tulbach but who died at…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi … and shortly afterwards he and other bus…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor … Potgieter,…
BiographyJoe Slovo
… in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg . Slovo … as a dispatch clerk for a…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…
BiographyElias Phakane Moretsele
… At an early age he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. He was the owner of…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… 1874, Penrhos Monmouthshire, England. His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the country's small but influential Gujarati Vhora Muslim … His grandparents immigrated to South…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… 1639 to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens. The couple were en route to Mauritius when Maria gave birth to Simon aboard the ship le Cappel. Van…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when he was still…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and … Natal province (now Kwazulu-Natal)…
BiographyIrma Stern
… she has also worked as a sculptor whose portrayal of African people gave her white counterparts insight into the African ways of life. In 1927, Irma won the…
BiographySuliman Moosa Esakjee
… in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its inception. He served as the Joint Secretary of the…