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BiographyMarlise Joubert
… in Librarianship and a BA Honours in Philosophy from the University of Pretoria. After her studies, she worked as a journalist … her husband, Louis…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal … Author, educator…
BiographyConstance Greaves
… renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This was the "native study". The genre emerged in SA at this time as a result…
BiographyDaniel Kunene
… 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA in 1949 and … to Selina Sekhuthe in 1953…
BiographyChief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
… Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. … Clerk,…
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
… Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a … The…
BiographyElsie Nair
… working in Durban , Natal. She was about 15 years old at the time. Nair then got a job at a clothing factory, and … as a dressmaker to supplement her income…
BiographyMakhaya Ntini
… was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's development…
’Impose Comprehensive and Mandatory Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South Africa, Unesco House Paris, 21 May 1981
… Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at meeting to commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year alliance between Britain and Portugal, London, 20 June 1973
… to commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year alliance between Britain and Portugal, London, …
Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar
… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 131 … Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister…
Blessing Mabaso
… Botha, Johannes Steyn and Laurence Wasserman for killing of Blessing Mabaso, Brian Memela, Luvuyo Mgobozi and Mbongeni Zondi on 7 September 1986 on the N2…
BiographyEphraim Chaka
… Chaka, Lekhowa David Chaka, Maniki Chaka and Meiti Chaka. The family lived in Sharpeville. He enjoyed riding his … every day to work. Chaka worked as a block…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
… Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand …
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… sculptor, heaven-herd and philosopher. He lived in the Ceza district where he received training as an inyanga from both his grandfathers and his father. …
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
… Chatsworth, Durban — an area designated for Indians under the notorious Group Areas Act . He attended the local primary school and then attended Chatsworth…
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
… Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
… Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning to study art in order to work in…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop…
BiographyNarainsamy Thumbi Naicker
… Pinetown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Attorney prominent in the South African Indian Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of G M Naicker …
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
… Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th … Airport,Johannesburg.He was held under section 6(1)…
BiographyWilliam Luscombe Searelle
… Luscombe (in South Australia) and an imperfect anagram of “Israel.” As a child he was taken to New Zealand and ran away to sea at the age of thirteen. …
BiographyKwena Matlala
… Kwena Matlala, born in 1920, was the first daughter of Chief Sekgwari Matlala and Mme Makwena Matlala . She married Nelson Ngakana Moabelo, the ntona of…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the Cape in…
William Nomodi Tshwane
… a stolen vehicle and was shot dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family were told…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
… Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the forties during the anti- Ghetto Act campaign . With the…
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
… Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer. …
BiographyJan Celliers
… Jan Celliers was born on 12 January 1865 on the farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later … to Cape Town where he attended an English school…
BiographyJohn Hodgkiss
… fine art Rhodes University. Here he also studied under the renowned photographer Obie Oberholzer. John Hodgkiss was … friend, fellow artist and colloborator,…
Khela Ngobese
… Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School and later continued his studies through the Intec Correspondence…