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BiographyFrans “Ting Ting” Masango
… had a good academic record which was interrupted by the 1976 student uprising . He played an active role in the uprising. … MK soldier, one of the accused…
BiographySiphiwo Maxwell “Congress” Mthimkhulu
… son of Sipho and Joyce Nobantu Mthimkhulu was born on the 23 March 1960. He grew up in Njoli Street, Zwide Township … Elizabeth. His political activism began…
PlaceFree State Province
… The Free State Province lies in the heart of South Africa, … Mosiuoa Lekote When the Voortrekkers move away from the Cape Colony in the Great Trek, some of…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the … she told me her story: "I worked for a clothing factory in Cape Town for seven years and had to…
Michael Shivute
… was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa police cells in South West Africa where he …
Clarence Lucky Payi
… Pretoria Central Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the orders of a rogue MK commander, assassinated ANC underground operative Ben Langa (the brother…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… Despite their defeats in battles with the Boers and the British during the nineteenth Century, the Zulus have … a home affairs office and the Township has a…
PlaceMapungubwe Interpretation Centre
… African architecture. Visible from its entrance gate, the Mapungubwe Centre is approached through a valley from where the outcrop of new buildings merges…
PlaceRondevlei Nature Reserve
… it sound like a rather large grassy area when in fact the nature reserve is anything but. Rather, it forms part of … range of mountains that dominate the…
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… The Portuguese arrived in the area in 1488, followed by the … role as a frontier town and later a part of the British Cape Colony . Ntabankulu is an…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… The homeland of KwaZulu (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 … given to the Afrikaners, who had left the British-ruled…
BiographyLucky Sibiya
… early art career consisted of carving decorative motifs on the surfaces of gourds for lampshade bases. He was given … by Cecil Skotnes and Bill Ainslie. In…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a ……
BiographyWillis Nxumalo
… in numerous group exhibitions. He won an award in 1972 at the Bulawayo Art Exhibition, Zimbabwe, and currently works … art in Empangeni. Nxumalo's work is…
BiographyVincent Tshabalala
… Tshabalala became politically influenced at a young age by the Bethal Trial in 1977 where a number of Pan Africanist … he went to Minerva High School in…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … a meeting with Lesotho's Foreign Minister Mooki…
Document 22 - CODESA I - Declaration of Intent
… has both positive and negative elements. We believe that the positive elements could have been strengthened, and the negative aspects reduced, if it had not…
PlacePort Shepstone, South Coast of KZN
… Port Shepstone is one of the largest Towns of the KwaZulu Natal South Coast in South Africa . Port … ideal for fishing, snorkeling, scuba diving and swimming…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only legal non-racial political party in…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… "[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military … mine attack on the Koeberg nuclear power station outside Cape Town…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am I an African? The Political Mem^oirs of H. M. Basner…
PlaceTygerberg Hospital
… Hospital is a tertiary hospital located in Parow , Cape Town . The hospital was officially opened in 1976 and is the largest hospital in the Western Cape and…
BiographyJeanne Zaidel-Rudolph
… a student, she displayed an extraordinary gift for playing the piano. Under the guidance of her teachers (including Goldie Zaidel, Philip … “Presidency…
BiographyMax Coleman
… Max Coleman was the Human Rights Commissioner,a businessman .He was married … Coleman, they had four sons, and became active members of the Detainees Parents…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is … Mfalapitsa on a plea to…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of a generation of black South African leaders who influenced the transition from the white…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into the local conditions of racist rule. A man of singular political talent, Buthelezi was among the…
BiographyRegina Buthelezi
… She trained at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre (ELC), … known about her. She exhibited on exhibitions arranged by the ELC Art and Craft…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
… Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, … November 1802 and,…
PlacePorterville
… Before the arrival of Europeans , the area was inhabited by San and … 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good Hope as a…