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ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
1900s 1917 27 October, Oliver Reginald Tambo (OR) is born in the village of Kantolo, Mbizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… peasant uprisings across the Congo. In the Kwilu region (map ref) demands of a ‘second independence’ were expressed …
Address at the Opening of the Second Session of the South African-Algerian Bi-National Commission, 17 October 2001
… in Africa. I refer here both to the African Union and MAP or the New African Initiative. In furtherance of our …
Mission Stations - N-S
Mission Stations - N NAAUWPOORT, also known as NAAUWPOORT JUNCTION, Cape: DGT NABILEYO, Flagstaff, Cape: No data available NABIS, Namibia: RM NAKEEKE,…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
A legacy is the long-term effect of something. A person or an event or a piece of writing from the past may still shape what people believe and how they live…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
The IEC announced that a record 48 political parties have successfully registered to contest the 2019 general elections. Most have been formed recently,…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… ago in Parliament. I refer here to the so-called draft map for the consolidation of KwaZulu. This is a question …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
Awards In 1960, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee made history by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli in recognition of his outstanding…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Kapadia was born on April 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
BiographyDavid Livingstone
David Livingstone was born on 19 March, 1813 in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was a committed Protestant Sunday school teacher and probably…
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
Shapurji Sorabji was born in Adajan, India. He belonged to a well-known Parsi family in Bombay and was a cousin of Parsee Rustomjee, a loyal friend of Gandhi…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
Born in 1932, Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and secondary schooling in the…
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
BiographyReggie Williams
Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… I see the project putting Xhosa classical books on the map, alongside English Renaissance Literature that is often …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
… substrate influences on early KHOE on the other.) The map (Figure 1.2) shows past and present distributions of the … group has been suggested by Tom…
The Black Face of Apartheid
Biko was critical of the homeland (Bantustan) policy. At the height of his influence, between 1963 and 1976, Steve Biko called the homelands “the greatest…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
The South African Police Service (SAPS) that we are familiar with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony or…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… of literature to demonstrate that it is possible to map the fundamental argument behind the social model onto the …
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… of literature to demonstrate that it is possible to map the fundamental argument behind the social model onto the …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… substrate influences on early KHOE on the other.) The map (Figure 1.2) shows past and present distributions of the … group has been suggested by Tom…
BiographyErnest Sedumedi Moloto
Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in the Rustenburg district. In 1931…