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BiographyJoyce Patricia Nokhuthula Khoza
Born 1945, Groutville. In 1967 she attended the Teachers’ Training Course, Adam’s College, Amanzimtoti; in 1969 she took the Special course in Arts and Crafts…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… was designed by Charles Hosking and was completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
1892 16 March, James Sebe Moroka is born in Thaba Nchu., Bophuthatswana in the Free State province. 1909 Moroka completes his primary school education,…
A preliminary study of the first decade of The Leader with particular reference to it's stance on the passive resistance campaign of 1946 by Prashanta Maharaj
’Victory is within our grasp’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa, Unesco House Paris, 16 June 1986
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the United Nations habitat II African housing minister’s conference World Trade Centre, 18 October 1996
Cable from Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations opposing South Africa’s proposal for incorporation of South West Africa, January 1946
Document 97 - “Advisory Board Elections: Communist Patty calls on Location Residents to support All-African Convention for Better Conditions”, South African worker. 26 September 1936
Cape Times reports that the Cape Town City Council has voted to reject the Group Areas Act of 1966 and to request that the enti
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
BiographyVincent Mbamama Hlamandana
Vincent Mbamama Hlamandana, Magade Madapu and William Tyabashe, from Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], were issued with banishment orders on…
Khela Ngobese
Ngobese was born in 1960 in KwaMashu but he later moved to Cator Manor Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary…
BiographyDerrick Vusimusi Nxumalo
Derrick Vusimusi Nxumalo was born in 1962 in Dumisa, Natal. Nxumalo passed Standard VIII at Phindavela High School. He received no formal art training. He…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a…
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…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
The South African Police Service (SAPS) that we are familiar with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony or…
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
… West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become an …
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… built in Africa. It was washed away by floods in 1905 / 1906. Another Temple was built on the same site, but had to …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 February 1977, Volume 106
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Helen Suzman, Member of Parliament for Houghton, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other…
Suppression of Communism Further Amendment Bill is approved by 106 votes to forty at its third reading. It is made retrospectiv
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded Abyssinia (later…
BiographyHilary Mutch
Hilary Mutch (née Hilary Claire) was born on 4 November 1941 in Erith, south-east London into a Jewish family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor…
BiographyElmon Malele
Elmon Malele was born in Mapulaneng in the Limpopo Province (Transvaal) in 1920. Malele came to Johannesburg in 1943, and stayed in Alexandra township. He was…
BiographyZwelidumisle Mjekula
Zwelidumisle Mjekula was executed at age 36,for the murder of a security guard in Port Elizabeth in June 1986.
BiographyRamafokisi Mathews Mofokeng
Ramafokisi Matthews Mofokeng was banned in July 1966 for two years under the Suppression of Communism Act.
BiographyThuse Majalla Moerane
Thuse Majalla Moerane was banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism Act in March 1966.
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Jeppetown, Johannesburg
… The foundation stone of this building was laid on 5 May 1906 by General Koos de la Rey, and the church was officially …
BiographyJohn Gomas
John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of…