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BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
… Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother … and later Kwa-ahluzingcondo High. After matriculating in…
BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
… outside Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in 1953. At…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her early childhood. … and then the Public Secondary School, both…
Apartheid Power In Crisis
… Apartheid Power In Crisis …
ArticleBanishment in South Africa
… Banishment in South Africa …
ArticleSlavery in South Africa
… Slavery in South Africa …
English Settlement in South Africa
… British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined … , located a few kilometres from Table Bay, as a goal. In 1615 John Cross…
Vusi Mahlasela
… Vusimuzi Sidney Mahlasela ka Zwane was born in Mamelodi in 1965. His grandmother ran a shebeen from behind their … bells being rung and drums beaten when…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… think of the women who retaliated against the oppression in honour of their families and well-being. Colonialism and apartheid affected women in different…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… Eugenics and Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, … every three European Jews had been killed. The Holocaust in Nazi…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… Human settlement in South Africa Modern humans have been inhabiting South … to be the birthplace of humans, is close to Pretoria in Gauteng, and is the…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… living by hunting and gathering could still be found in different parts of the world. Over the last century, and … have been forced to adopt a different way…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS in 1983/84. HIV destroys blood cells called CD4+ T cells, … more than three-quarters of Aids-related deaths…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… differentiates itself from South African English Jews in a number of ways; their geographical locale is usually either on the periphery or in rural areas,…
BiographySteve Hilton-Barber
… Steve Hilton-Barber was born in Tzaneen, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province) in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of … for Yehudi…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… The passive resistance movement in South Africa is seen as, largely, led by M K Gandhi and … to dominate the tactics used by the liberation movements in the…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… Bloemfontein ultimately played an important role in the Province during the early years of the 19th century as … place for discussions that would ultimately…
Political report of the National Executive Committee, to the 49th National Conference of the ANC by President Nelson Mandela Bloemfontein, 17 December 1994
… ANC by President Nelson Mandela Bloemfontein, 17 December 1994 …
Nelson Mandela’s address to the people of Cape Town, Grand Parade, on the occasion of his inauguration as State President Cape Town, 9 May 1994
… of his inauguration as State President Cape Town, 9 May 1994 …
Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies
… successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo, Natal. … successful farmer and promoter of dairy…
BiographyMolefi Paul Sefularo
… Dr Molefi Paul Sefularo was born on 9 July 1957, in Potchefstroom, North West Province. In addition to public … In 1993 he began lecturing at Wits…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… Thabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla was born in Lydenburg, eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga), South Africa, … the Peace Desk and the Religious Front until…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… youth because he could not read Afrikaans, the language in which the bill was presented; in another instance an NPP minister signed a bill favouring … was…
EventManne Dipico, former Premier of the Northern Cape, is born in Kimberley
… of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, is born in Kimberley. Emsley Manne Dipico was the first premier of … secretary of the African National Congress…
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… Born on 14 April 1886 in a wheat farm called bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony, Maria Magdalena Laubster was a painter ……
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his Doorkloof farm in Irene, near Pretoria. His ashes were scattered on Smuts … Smuts established the Fagan Commission…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… the South African government to end the Rivonia Trial in progress and grant amnesty to the defendants and all other … together with the US, France and Brazil…
The Freedom struggle in Polokwane
… The Freedom struggle in Polokwane/Pietersburg looks at the Resistance politics, the re-emergence of resistance in the 1980s, and political developments after…
ArticlePass Laws in South Africa
… control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass said which areas a person was allowed to move through or be in and if a…