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EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… Commission for Africa at Leopoldville in Congo, fifteen African states tabled a draft resolution requesting the UN … Fifteen African states tabled a draft…
EventWilliam J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies
… His collection contains the most extensive examples of African fauna and flora. Burchell's travels, however, … J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… where he studied law and he was active in the South African Student Organisation (SASO). At university, he was … Group. Nxumalo was deployed to Prague as the…
BiographySedick Isaacs
… Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four children. His father, a businessperson in the … ultimately went bankrupt. His…
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
… (now Gauteng).He was one of the six children in a family with roots in the northern Transvaal.His parents … black consciousness ideas and became a leader in…
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
… He left his home in November 1976 when he joined the African National Congress (ANC) to become an uMkhonto weSizwe … buried him in an unmarked grave which…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… tries to highlight a series of events that the Pan African Congress (PAC)has been involved with in relation to … The Pan African Congress venture in…
Statement at the 19th African-American Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 12 January 1989
… the same sentiments. We are indeed most grateful to the African-American Institute both for convening this timely … has not abandoned this policy position…
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
… Flowers on a Window Sill (1930), with its flattened areas of colour, would have elicited a similar response. …
BiographySelf Mampuru
… Self Mampuru was born in 1908 into the leading family of chiefs of Sekhukhuneland. In the 1930s in … to South Africa. In 1943, critical of the inaction of…
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
… Members of the South African Industrial Federation (SAIF), a miners union for … February 2012]|Verwey E.J. (1995) New Dictionary of South African Biography (…
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
… by Allison Drew Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. … Act; the Land and Trust Act and the…
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the welcome ceremony by the President of the Republic
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the welcome …
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the President and members of the French National Assembly
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the President …
BiographyThomas Selema Masekela
… In 1921 Masekela\'s father became an evangelist and the family moved to Randjesfontein near Halfway House, Masekela …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Cape). De Villiers is known as the 'father of South African geneaology' and began writing his significant three … Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37),…
BiographyNkosiyakhe Amos Masondo
… on a white farm near Louwsburg in the Northern Natal.The family migrated to Johannesburg in stages,Masondo began … of black consciousness and helped to…
BiographyNgwenduna Vanda
… Ngwenduna Vanda, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) was … a pauper's burial by the then Transkei authorities.His…
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
… In 1935 he found a major building job which took the family to the Transvaal (now Gauteng) and at the age of 14 … gained experience that only those who walk…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… his first government post as interpreter to Sir Benjamin D'Urban during the Sixth Frontier War of 1834-35, and he acted … of a frontiersman, he had valuable…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… his first government post as interpreter to Sir Benjamin D'Urban during the Sixth Frontier War of 1834-35, and he acted … of a frontiersman, he had valuable…
Former South African President P W De Klerk’s Manifesto for the New South Africa
… South Africa, free from apartheid, requires a strong South African nation, That there exists, therefore, an urgent need … and to find a peaceful way to build…
BiographyDavid Livingstone
… up with an aspiration to become a missionary. Since his family was poor, David worked from the age of 10 to 26 at a … sleeping sickness and dysentery – as…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin In 1942, a strike … A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… Former South African Prime Minister and State President, Balthazar John … Mark R. Lipschutz, R. Kent Rasmussen, (1989), Dictionary of African historical…
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… through the relevant resolutions of the Organisation of African Unity, the Non-Aligned Movement and the United … educating African youth and provision of…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… was conducted the day after Biko’s death, at which his family was present. The explanation given by the Minister of … to Pretoria without any medical…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the development of the South…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi … ("Spear of the Nation") (MK), the military wing…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
… four brothers and seven sisters. He is the 10th child in a family of 12. Until he was baptised, he did not know the date … miners' strike. He then joined…