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BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother … their willingness to participate in…
BiographyFrederik Bester Laubscher
… Laubscher was born on 3 February 1927 in Tulbagh, in the Cape. His father was a Glasgow trained physician with … first recognised in 1940 at Pinelands Junior…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
… Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s … suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in the Cape, he…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children … Xundu’s father when they had been pupils at St…
BiographyGarth Erasmus
… Erasmus was born on 12 April 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Erasmus was raised in Port Elizabeth and from an early … a teachers training program at Hewat…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of … England on…
BiographyBen Turok
… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in … Africa in 1934. After graduating from the University of Cape Town in 1950,…
Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999
… "Oh dear, I can't go to the gods again with no room to offer them. Having failed in the service of the gods, I shall run to my den in the sewer pipe down by…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
… Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport … or 'Ubuntu - Botho' as a…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, c. 1919 1 At the outbreak of World War I in … Coloured soldiers. In all, some 6 000 men joined the 1st Cape…
BiographyTony Sithembiso Yengeni
… Sithembiso Tony Yengeni was born in Cape Town and grew up in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his matric … Beaufort college in Cape…
BiographyDora Taylor
… Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was … as a senior lecturer in Psychology at the…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
… Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress … Member of…
BiographyRobert Gwelo Goodman
… Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City Hall, Cape Town (1917) is a painting that has special relevance for ……
SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016
… group chief executive Jimi Matthews furiously defended the public broadcaster, its chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, and conditions at the company…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… say how alive this place is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I … Street, Simon’s Town. While there is a…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown … while refusing to erase their complexity and…
BiographyMakomba Ngomane
… No. 84 of 1951 declared, without providing reasons, the removal of the entire community from Area No. 54, … adequate residential sites, arable land, funds to…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
… Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC) . Mthembu was born on 5 …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… The Liberation Struggle in South Africa home home politics & … Indian Congress (TIC). "The NEUP's first major Western Cape campaign culminated in March…
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
… Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. … representative…
BiographyGraeme Williams
… Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity which … first job was…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
… (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at … Hare for some time, he left the university to…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… On 1 February 1920, the South African Air Force was established. This made it the … in August 1914, these pilots were granted permission to join the newly…
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
… Cornelius Judah Fazzie was born in 1924 Queenstown Eastern Cape,but grew up largely in Tsolo.His migrant father worked in the Western Cape.He began school…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… Sobukwe ’s propagation of Pan Africansit ideas, he joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) at its formation in 1959. He was appointed as the party branch…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
… was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary … of the…
BiographyHarold Cressy
… 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman … primary education and at the age eight he…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Following the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the Government declared a State of Emergency (SOE), in 83 … as the language of instruction at African secondary…