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BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyHelen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…
BiographyMotsamai Keyecwe Mpho
Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho was born to a peasant family in Maun Bechuanaland (now Botswana) on 3 February 1921. His family came from a non-Setswana-speaking ethnic…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a…
BiographyMary Moodley
Mary Moodley, or Aunty Mary as she was known, was born on 14 March 1914 in Jaggersfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10…
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
Yusuf (Joe) Jacobs was born in District Six, Cape Town on 17 September 1940. His father was Ismail Jacobs, a tailor. His paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… of Monrovia was felt by the Kru people. [x] Figure 2 – Map of Kru Coastal Villages Image source The Kru were easily … which he called the Province of Freedom…
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at teh Development Planning Summit Hosted by the Intergovernmental Forum, 27 November 1995
… is together. As we pause for breath, and consult the map, our challenge is to find the common path ahead. And we …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… African National Congress ’ armed struggle. [iii] A road map for negotiations in the future was suggested from Mandela …
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
1971 Closure of The Classic, by Nat Nakasa, editor. Publication of ‘Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’, Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, by Renoster Books,…
BiographyEve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa C.M.C. Ndamse is a distinguished educationist and former lecturer at the University of…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
1815 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg cross the Oranje/Gariep river. June 1836, Van Rensburg leaves Trichardt while Potgieter goes on an expedition to…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… CONTENT West Africa before the European slave trade A map depicting the three most well-known West African …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… of management’s abuse of power. The play was structured to map the experience of one worker’s time spent at Dunlop from …
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
Rocky Malebane-Metsing was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his schooling, Malebane…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyJosephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood,…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
Introduction Nelson's attachment to property is sentimental rather than material and this is reflected in his attitude to his Orlando home and to land at his…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Mthembu was born on 5…