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Subbiah Moodley
… (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), recruits. He was born in Umgeni Road in 1944, Durban, …
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… dioxide (SO2) [Online]. Available: http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/2100 ↵ [ii] Chemical disaster victims … dioxide (SO2) [Online]. Available: https…
EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… Kaunda Source: website:andibradley.com website:bized.ac.uk …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… the editorial board of Antipode, available at: blogs.uct.ac.za/ [Accessed 23 March 2010] …
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
… children and teenagers[online] Available at: www.hsrc.ac.za[Accessed on 16 May 2012] …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… their freedom. In the Orange Free State particularly Bloemfontein passed the laws to regulate black people in … carry passes. For example, in 1907 a new law…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were unbanned, hundreds of … are…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… organisations, and other prominent individuals gathered in Bloemfontein and formed the African National Congress (then South African Native National…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… biographical database of southern African science, s2a3.up.ac.za/bio/Main.php, as on Tuesday 06 May 2008. …
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… an important voice within the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies against South Africa’s nuclear weapons …
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
… well as the Dutch branch of the African National Congress (ANC) . Leon continued to work at the VU hospital as a nurse …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… to support the banned African National Congress (ANC), which at the time, was a risky thing to do. In February … gathered in his honour for the Eucharist…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… Forum, Brown was included in discussions with the exiled ANC leadership in Lusaka. In the 1990s Brown, a successful …
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… as a tour operator as a cover to deliver weapons to the ANC. From Swaziland, Vernon Berrange was to charter a plane …
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… married political activist Mewa Ramgobin and served as an ANC member of Parliament from 1994 to 2004. …
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… the highest award given by the African National Congress (ANC) to people who have made an outstanding contribution to …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… Msimang in connection with a movement for higher wages at Bloemfontein . August, Clements Kadalie, the founder of the … (ICU), invites Selby Msimang, the…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
Prominent South African academic, Dr Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree…
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… plebeian citizens. All Welcome Please rsvp [email protected] With Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both … itself by changing its name from the SANNC to the ANC, adopting a national anthem and a…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… awareness. In the 1930s this was done through the ANC , the CPSA and the trade union movements. By the 1930s, … (SANNC) renamed itself, African National…
The War
… later. On 13 March 1900 the British army occupied Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State and on 1 … days later and occupied the town on 5 June…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… way.” [11] . Figure 2 A promotional poster for Ibrahim’s ANC benefit concert Image source Abdullah Ibrahim is an … Ibrahim - Wits University. [ONLINE]…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… years old are transferred to archive depots in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg. There is no …
Bantu Women’s League
… police. Many were arrested in Jagersfontein, Winburg and Bloemfontein. The writer, Sol Plaatjie commented on their …
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… OF SOUTHERN AFRICA [online] Available at www.assa.saao.ac.za[Accessed: 30 June 2011] Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Campaign organized by the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress, when thousands of … shot dead by police[3] - and the subsequent…
BiographyBheki Cele
… ( UDF ), and later joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) underground network. Under the command of Jacob Zuma , … the window into the schoolyard [10] …
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… who voluntarily surrender are being formed at Pretoria and Bloemfontein." This signals the start of what was to evolve … first two 'refugee' camps are…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… liberation movements. The African National Congress , (ANC) South African Communist Party (SACP), the Indian … TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION, AMNESTY…