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BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… sister, Val, who was 21, died of diabetes. He asked the family doctor why his sister and his grandmother had the … politics, and was the chair of the…
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…
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…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and … and prevent them from buying land in prescribed areas were passed. The Natives Land Act…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
… Flowers on a Window Sill (1930), with its flattened areas of colour, would have elicited a similar response. …
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…
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…
BiographyThomas Selema Masekela
… In 1921 Masekela\'s father became an evangelist and the family moved to Randjesfontein near Halfway House, Masekela …
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… King Hintsa’s jurisdiction was targeted. [10] Governor D’urban and Colonel Smith demanded the Rharhabe refugees as … father’s; kept as a lump in the belly…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… then the need to provide quality of life for self and family will become part of our national pride and the … boycotts, he supported rent boycotts of…
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…