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Ngeni Gaga
Mr Ngeni Gaga,aged 19,died under Transkei Proclamation R400 of 1960 on 9th May 1965 . Mr Gaga had been detained in the Transkei less than 24 hours earlier.At…
BiographySaint Mokoena
He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He received his primary education at Thunzi Primary School where he started drawing, and at…
BiographyThomas Selema Masekela
Thomas Selema Masekela was born on 16 December 1908 in Madibeng farm near Dikgale near Pietersburg, Transvaal. Seeking education for their children, Masekela\…
BiographyEthel de Keyser
As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a marriage that lasted 10 years. She…
BiographyGeorge Msimang
George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left Lamontville…
BiographyBen Skosana
Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further studies at St…
BiographyThe Taung Child
In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart discovered that it…
BiographyBen M. Skosana
Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further studies at St…
Henry Eric Isaacs
Henry Eric Isaacs was born March 21 in 1949,He grew up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His family was of diverse racial composition:one…
Wendy Schwegmann
Wendy Schwegmann was born in 1954 in Zululand, where she spent her youth. She has a diploma in Interior Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
Jaydew Nasib Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was…
BiographyNomkhosi Mary Mini
Nomkhosi Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National…
BiographyRev. George Champion
Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion joined the American Board…
BiographyGana Makabeni
Gana Makabeni was born in the Transkei. He attended a Communist night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the…
Josias Madzunya
Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931,…
BiographyJ. E. Malepe
A leader of the African National Congress Youth League during the 1940s, he was elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in…
BiographyJohn Mtini
Born in 1887, John Mtini was the 'Grand Old Man' of the trial who took part in the 1929 anti-pass campaigns, the struggles of the unemployed of 1931-2, the…
BiographyHammington Silulami Majija
A graduate of Healdtown, he taught in Rhodesia and the Transkei and later worked as business manager of Contact in Cape Town. A prominent figure in the Liberal…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
Contents Introduction The concept of segregation Discriminatory legislation up to 1924 Political Legislation Economic Legislation Legislation regarding…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
Thabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetlawas born in Lydenburg, eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 18 May 1957. He joined the South African Student…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… Museum is housed in an old Victorian shop dating back to 1906. This National Monument was renovated in 1986 and is a …
Robert L Barber
In February 1977 a Cape Times report revealed that a detainee,Mr Robert L Barber,had died in detention in October 1976 in the police cells in Durban.No further…
BiographyPeter Kaya Selepe
One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, Selepe was born in 1919 and served in the South African army in World War II, attaining the…
BiographyW Mati
Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in Port Elizabeth. Mati served…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir…
ArchiveIndian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960, Edited by E. S. Reddy
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
The dwelling is a low single-storey structure with few architectural features of note. However it was spacious and well built, and remains in its original…
BiographySidumo Dlamini
Sidumo “Sdumo” Dlamini was born in a rural village of Nsthingila Hlatsikhulu in Swaziland on 2 March 1966. He moved to South Africa with his aunt at a young…
BiographyPhuti Matlala
Phuti Matlala was banished on 7 March 1951 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]to Verdwaal Farm,…
BiographyRichard Molete
In 1956, police killed four and injured others during a march in Lichtenburg [Northern Transvaal, now North West Province] that protested against passes for…