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BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
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 …
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…
BiographySimon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a lot of money; his…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
Doornkop/Doornsluiten farm was located in Utrecht, a town in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). To the west lay Annandale farm which was acquired by the South African…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed strategies to influence public opinion within South Africa with the view to rebuilding its clandestine…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… He gives the first detailed description and draws a map of the coast. 1580 18 June, An English admiral, Francis …
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… High Command in Relation to the Guerilla Areas: To map out regions in each area with a view to organising …
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… Dutch, English, and other European and Malay languages. A map showing where slaves came from. Image source Activity 4 …
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
How to find out about the present or the history of a local area? When investigating our past, we need to look at various things and resource information…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… put the Mpumalanga township Hammarsdale on the national map - if he were here today - he would have been happy, …
Mission Stations - I-L
Mission Stations - I IBISI, Natal: FMA; WMMS ICQUIBIGHA, Cape: see IGQIBIGHA, Middledrift, Cape IDUTYWA, also known as IDUTYWA RESERVE, Cape: UFS 1880;…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…
Polokwane the Segregated city
Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the…
ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu, affectionately known as Ma Sisulu, has been described countless times as a caring and service-oriented individual who spent her…
BiographyJames Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew up in very dire…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles,…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… farmers were called a "Trek boers" (Migrant farmers). Map of the Eastern Frontier. Source: samilitaryhistory.org …
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… 1375 - Timbuktu appeared for the first time on a European map 1400 - Gold trade flourished - from west Africa, through …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… the Hex River, and included its location on the geological map he drew up at the time. In the 1890s, prospectors …
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we have bestowed the title of president…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
Magnet Theatre is an independent physical theatre company founded in 1987 in order to produce Jennie Reznek’s first one-man performance “Cheap Flights”. Then…
A new class struggle
While historians are generally in agreement that the main anti-Indian feeling in South Africa was directed towards the merchant class, these sentiments were…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport…
Nelson Mandela The World Celebrates the Mandela’s
Introduction Winnie's banning order expired in September 1975 and thirteen years of silence was broken. She was in a sense pulled back from the dead. Durban…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2013 submissions
Max Agadoni Max Agadoni is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University, studying business and engineering. He is originally from Leawood, Kansas, and…