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BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane was born in Krugersdorp, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 June 1980 to Ethel and Simon Maimane but grew up in Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
ANC-2nd Submission to TRC - APPENDIX FOUR Please note: Information in this list was drawn from press reports and the Annual Surveys of the SAIRR. These…
PlaceMozambique
… Africa to Tanzania . "Mozambique is not easy to miss on a map!" But due to its troubles in the past, it was mostly …
BiographyDeseni Soobben
Deseni Soobben was 10 when her grandfather, a businessman returned from a trip to Japan and gave her a Kodak lnstamatic camera. Soobben matriculated from…
BiographyGuy Tillim
Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains have been…
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
… gold. The P.A.C. flag shall be green field with a black map of Africa and a gold star in the north-west of Africa. …
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
CHICAGO — Rarely are poets silenced when nations imprison them for speaking out. Mongane Wally Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… went on to state that the Commissioner had appended a map showing acquisitions in “Block AL.” This map dealt with a small part of Durban’s residential Berea…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
1994 to 1995 In December 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed the homes and…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… 20 This image placed West Africa firmly on the mental map of medieval Europe for the first time. The Spread of …
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
In 1912 Enoch Mgjimia, a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… a clear picture of what occurred. Those with a capacity to map our country's way forward are all the political …
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
Guru Kistnasamy was born on 28 December 1947 in Felixton, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father, Thaniachallam Kistnasamy Naicker, worked as a…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
BiographyPaul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
Chris Dlamini was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting factory…
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
Elza Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans…
BiographyEnver Hassim
Enver Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His father made a living as a middleman and…
BiographyMary Sibande
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist based in…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
Alan Robert Lipman was born on 6 June, 1925 in Johannesburg into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II,…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
Zwelinzima Joseph Vavi was born on 20 December 1962 on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape. His father was a mineworker. Vavi has four brothers and seven sisters…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
William Henry Beaumont was born in India on 24 February 1851. His father was a Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Madras Light Infantry. Beaumont attended…
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
Dr Vejaynand Indurjith Ramlakan, more popularly known as 'Vejay', was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa in 1957. He matriculated at…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…