Albert John Luthuli was a South African anti-apartheid activist,traditional leader,and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
Sasolburg is the fourth largest city(After Bloemfontein,Welkom and Kroonstad) within the Metsimaholo Local Municipality in the far north of the Free State province of South Africa. Sasolburg is further sub-divided into three areas:Sasolburg proper,Vaalpark and Zamdela.
Central Johannesburg College (CJC) is a South African college founded in September 2001,with the official declaration Technical Colleges into Further Education and Training Colleges made by the Minister of Education,Kader Asmal. His declaration followed a national strategy to restructure the educational landscape of South Africa and provide improved access to a more diverse student population. It is the ultimate aim to create a Further Education and Training (FET) sector that will directly affect the transformation of society in terms of relevant education that will uplift the economy through active entrepreneurial training and the preparation of students for the world of work.
Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs is a South African lawyer,activist,writer,and former judge appointed to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela.
Nyameko Barney Pityana FKC GCOB is a human rights lawyer and theologian in South Africa. He is an exponent of Black theology.
Ronald Kasrils is a South African politician,Marxist revolutionary,guerrilla and military commander. He was Minister for Intelligence Services from 27 April 2004 to 25 September 2008. He was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1987 to 2007 as well as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) from December 1986 to 2007.
The South African History Project (2001-2004) was established and initiated by Professor Kader Asmal,former Minister of Education in South Africa. This initiative followed after the publication of the Manifesto on Values,Education and Democracy and the Report of the History and Archaeology Panel in South Africa in 2001.This report was written by leading scholars who advised the then Minister of Education on the strengthening of the teaching of history in South African schools after the end of apartheid. The South African History Project addressed the challenges of revitalising the teaching and learning of history by setting up provincial networks which brought stakeholders in education,heritage,tourism and publishing together for the first time in post-apartheid South Africa.
Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya was a South African politician who was Minister of Public Service and Administration from 1994 to 1999 and Minister of Social Development from 1999 to 2009. Skweyiya was re-elected to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress in 2007.
Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare. Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government,coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions,were instrumental in leading to negotiations to end apartheid,which began formally in 1990 and ended with South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994.
There is a historical and current bilateral relationship between Ireland and South Africa. Both countries have established embassies in the territory of the other,in Dublin and Pretoria.
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a South African politician,former member of parliament from 1994 until 2023,and a current member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress. She previously served as Minister of Housing,as Minister of Defence and Military Veterans,Minister of Public Service and Administration,Minister of Human Settlements from,Minister of International Relations and Cooperation,Minister of Human Settlements,Water and Sanitation and Minister of Tourism.
Stanger Secondary School is a public high school located in Stanger / KwaDukuza on the north coast of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa.
The Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa,or EISA,is an organization founded in 1996 in Johannesburg to "promote credible elections,participatory democracy,human rights culture and the strengthening of governance institutions for the consolidation of democracy in Africa."
The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law,South Africa,is an organisation dedicated to promoting human rights on the continent of Africa. The centre,founded in 1986,promotes human rights through educational outreach,including multinational conferences,seminars and publications such as Human Rights Law in Africa,The African Human Rights Law Journal,the African Human Rights Law Reports and The Constitutional Law of South Africa. The centre,which was founded during Apartheid,assisted in adapting a Bill of Rights for South Africa and contributed to creating the South African Constitution. In 2006,the centre received the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education,particular recognising for the LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa and the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition.
Mandla Langa is a South African poet,short-story writer,novelist,and cultural activist. He grew up in KwaMashu township of Kwazulu Natal. His novel The Lost Colours of the Chameleon won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize . Langa enrolled for a degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare,but was expelled in 1973 as a result of his involvement in the activities of the South African Student Organisation. In 1976,he went into exile and has lived in different countries of Southern Africa as well as in Hungary and the United Kingdom.
Fr Austin (Liam) Flannery OP,was a Dominican priest,editor,publisher and social justice campaigner.
The Dakar Conference was a historic conference between members of the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA) and the African National Congress (ANC). It was held in Dakar,Senegal between 9 and 12 July 1987. The conference discussed topics such as strategies for bringing fundamental change in South Africa,national unity,structures of the government and the future of the economy in a free South Africa. The IDASA delegation from South Africa,participated in the conference in their private capacity and would later be condemned by the South African government for meeting a banned organization. The future indirect result of the conference was South African government talks with Nelson Mandela and his eventual meeting with P. W. Botha in 1989.
The Irish Federation of University Teachers is a trade union representing university staff in Ireland.
Theuns Eloff is a South African,who is the ex-Executive Director of the FW de Klerk Foundation,an ex-Rector and an ex-Reconciler.
Azwindini Jeremiah Ndou,commonly known as Jerry Ndou,is a South African politician and diplomat who has served as a Delegate to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) since October 2022. Before that,he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature and Limpopo Executive Council.
