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BiographyFrancis Wilson
… Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey … Africa. They settled in rural Hogsback in the Eastern Cape ,…
BiographyShirley Gunn
… Honors degree, she became involved in community work in the Hout Bay area. It was also during this period that she … became a platform to articulate…
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became … Ngoyi was later elected as president…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
… Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town . Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
… was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the Western Province. Marks attended the local school where he completed Standard Five,moved to Cape…
BiographyWilliam Philip Schreiner
… William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent … Schreiner. He studied at the South African College,…
BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in 1953. … 1956. After graduating,…
BiographyBertram Dumbleton
… Bertram Dumbleton was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic … conventions in…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of … for communities in…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. … Under these circumstances, Gandhi…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
… Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university … the Guardian newspaper and later became secretary of the…
Annie Silinga
… Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed … only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national … becoming apparent, security police detained Biko, the outspoken student leader, on…
BiographyFanie Jason
… Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South … eighties when he worked for Drum and Pace magazine in Cape Town. Jason's…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… The early 1980s There was little change in the situation from … the possibility of such a front, and it was decided to join with organizations, on a regional…
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… The fate of Natalia After the defeat of Dingane, the Kingdom … sphere of influence, the missionaries complained, and Cape Governor Napier sent a force of 250…
BiographyAnna Tempo
… and Tempo moved to Ireland until 1914 when she returned to Cape Town . She continued her work with the young girls, and set up a house for them in Napier ……
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South … status in the bodies of state, in the courts and in the schools…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and…
BiographyEdward Clark Churchill Mace
… fortune from mining. Rendered insolvent there, he came to Cape Town in 1901. He served on the British side in the Anglo-Boer War by doing duty at the Cape…
BiographyMary Thipe
… Mary Thipe was born in 1917* in Ramhlakoane, a village in the Matatiele district, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) near the Eastern Cape border. Later, as a young…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… 1. Introduction ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view … territory that is today mostly understood as the Eastern Cape – between 1700…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
… born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect … book with…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His … illness, his principal took pity on him and allowed him to…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
… Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography … and bought a second-hand…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son…
Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant J.H. Visser with 200 men attacks Kuruman, defended by only 35 members of the Cape Police, 33 local
… Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa. … 200 men attacks Kuruman, defended by only 35 members of the Cape Police, 33 local …
Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi
… teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi …
Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.
… SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province. …
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
… Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon …