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BiographyStephen Mini
… He was an early leader of the African National Congress (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…
BiographyHein du Plessis
… Born on the 13th February 1967, Hein matriculated at Sentraal High … He studied for a National Diploma in Photography at the Vaal Triangle Technikon,…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… a cultural figure such as Mr. Semenya, an understanding of the social environment in South Africa is essential. The White minority rule of South Africa and…
PlaceLuneburg, Kwazulu Natal
… Lüneburg is located between the towns of Piet Retief and Vryheid on the border of the KwaZulu Natal Province and the Mpumalanga Province of … Lüneburg is…
BiographyRev. Mzwandile Maqina
… October 1937,New Brighton .He grew up in Port Elizabeth ,the son of two teachers,attended Lovedale,taught briefly,and began studies foir the Anglican…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
… Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for Orlando Pirates in the 1960s,…
Sabata Manaka
… He lived in Phiri, Soweto, Johannesburg. Manaka left the country in 1978. His brother, Ezekiel Mosioa Manaka tracked him to the Dukwe camp, in Botswana,…
BiographyPhillmon Velangetshe Sangweni
… many years for a carpet company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. Sangweni no lives in the Empangeni district where he works as a…
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
… Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly known for his skills in the field of play, began his soccer…
BiographyLucky Philip Dube
… Lucky Dube was born on a small farm near Ermelo in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). His mother, Sarah, … attempts so fortunate that she named him …
BiographyDr. Pholile Mpofu
… Dr. Mpofu noticed that the field of dermatology tended to be neglected by black … She became interested in dermatology while working at the Chris-Hani…
BiographyVictor Shange
… in 1958. Victor showed keen interest in art at the tender age of 6 and his talent developed as he grew until … artist. His work depicts landscapes of KwaZulu…
BiographyJustice Zac Yacoob
… Yacoob attended Durban's Arthur Blaxall School for the Blind from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he studied for a BA and from 1970 to 1972, completed an LLB…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The first anniversary … Kotze, Director of the now banned Christian Institute, my Cape Town friend, in whose…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … Hitler is rapidly losing all his supporters in Europe. The rats are leaving the sinking ship…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… Motlatsi was wary of Cyril Ramaphosa. He wasn't sure if the young lawyer, who grew up in Soweto, was genuine when he … in the department of public law at the…
BiographyAndries Johannes Botha
… born in Durban. He is a major SA sculptor who studied at the UN(P) obtaining a BA (FA). He has served on a number of … committees and in 1983 was…
BiographyBhekisani Manyoni
… a further two years. He then taught art at a school for the physically disabled in Newcastle, Natal. In 1973 he … centre in Mbabane, Swaziland. He was also…
BiographyJan Willem Jordaan
… is a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, obtaining a BA (FA). He taught … University then from 1975 he has taught…
BiographyDora Tamana
… Tamana (nee Ntloko) was born in 1901 in Hlobo, Transkei , the eldest of seven children. Her childhood centred mainly on the many tasks demanded of a young…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
… Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to attend the Eidgah . The Eidgah was hosted next to the Mohammadiyya Qadriyya Majid … Hundreds of people braved…
BiographyBonginhlanhla Plummer Mbokazi
… was never a full time artist. He studied art informally at the Community Arts Workshop, Durban, in 1987; in 1990 he attended classes in art run by the…
BiographyThomas Kgope
… Norman Catherine while he was working as an electrician on the latter's new studio. Kgope was injured when he fell from the second floor of Catherine's…
BiographyJames Gavin Younge
… in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. From 1965 to 1968 he studied at the Witwatersrand Technical College gaining a national Art … a BA degree. In 1972 and 1973 he lectured…
BiographyProfessor Raymond Suttner
… Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg…
PlaceRwanda
… Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa . People began settling in the … of ethnic connotations, institutionalised ethnic…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… 1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbatha
… objects by a piece of wood which he discovered in the veld that reminded him of a bending female figure. Mbatha … worked for a time at yuis Botha Airport,…
BiographyBenjamin John Peter Tyamzashe
… privately between 1913 and 1924, while teaching at the Tiger Kloof Institution in Vryburg. In 1938, Tyamzashe’s … to conduct a massed choir of 3000 school…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him on one of the issues he raised, i.e. as a country, “we self-imposed a…