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EventCharges against Cape Times editor, Mr Anthony Heard are dropped
… government published a booklet which contained banned ANC literature. …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… massacre itself is well documented. However, little of the literature focuses on background explanations as to how … fateful day. The critical question,…
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… and writer, Reitz made a notable contribution to Afrikaans Literature. He was honoured with an Honouree honours degree …
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject of History at the …
Staffrider Vol.6 No.3 1986
… Donald ; Thoughts on Bongiwe by Thami Mnyele; Language, Literature and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa by …
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… membership to your league. Regarding you appeal for your literature agents it was agreed that we request you to send … are carried out. Please address all…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she was 16, her first book was …
EventLibrary and clinic names are changed in Pretoria
… Prof. Ezekiel (Es'kia) Mphahlele was professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand and has …
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… Africa Click here to read specifically about South African literature …
EventLeprosy expert Dr Kok is born
… patients there she made a major contribution to medical literature by identifying and describing an unknown skin …
EventN.P. van Wyk Louw is born
… Order of Ikhamanga in Gold for exceptional contribution in literature and advocacy of language rights for the African …
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… Lydia van Niekerk, professor of Dutch Literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at …
The apartheid city and its labouring class: African workers and the independent trade union movement in Durban, 1959-1985
… with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject history at the …
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
… National Congress (ANC). Plaatjie’s contributions to literature include his translation of Shakespeare's Comedy of …
EventDaniel Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born
… the Great Trek. Malherbe was also a professor of literature at the University of Bloemfontein from 1922- 42. …
EventThe first legal photograph of Nelson Mandela released.
… prisoners and the banned African National Congress literature. …
Rixaka
… such as performing arts, visual arts, film, poetry, literature, were explored as means by which the spirit of …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… the submissions handed to the Commission by Kairos and by literature on the Pondoland Revolt. …
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… when Rusbridger was five years old. He later studied literature and in 1979 joined the The Guardian as a reporter. …
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… were made on his life. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 and became the first Arab to be so …
Grade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… to trade. It involved the development and advancement of literature, art, politics, religion and science. A growing … who lived in it. This also led to many…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=stra01 http://literature.kzn.org.za/lit/24.xml …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… of the 20th century. Click here to read more about black literature in South Africa. …
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… in 1985 in Johannesburg. Sumner completed a Masters in Literature at Oxford University in 1925, and studied at the …
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
… namely chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. The sixth subject, economics, was added …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in Xhosa literature. Charles Brownlee rated him one of the best, if …
EventStephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born
… University he received a D.Litt and D.Phil in 1978. Gray’s literature falls into a range of genres, including poetry, …
ArticleThe missionaries
… press at Palmerton near Lusikisiki. It published Christian literature as the most effective tool in the outreach of the …
Africa South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Israel and Africa, E. Ben-Horin. Towards an African Literature ii, Dr. A.C. Jordan. Anglo-Saxon Dreams, Michael …
EventHendrik Andries Hanekom, SA actor dies in the Strand, Cape Town
… documents are preserved in the National Afrikaans Literature Museum. *Note: Some sources say he died on 12 …