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The NUSAS Issue” by Baruch, H. (1979). Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Revolt: Roots of A Revolution, Zed Press: London
… The NUSAS Issue” by Baruch, H. (1979). Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Revolt: Roots of A Revolution, Zed Press: London …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. This … to the liberal National Union of…
BiographyRick Turner
… an activist and educationist. He was highly influential in the re-emergence of the Black labour movement and one of the … He joined the National Union of…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a … to the National Union of South…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… Vorster (also known as BJ Vorster or John Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after … Tribune on May 20: ‘The OB is dead. Long…
BiographyLaura Jean Levetan
… Laura Jean Levetan was born in Cape Town in 1955, the third child of Lionel and Marie Levetan. Their household … Souci Girls High in 1973. She was a founding…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by … group within the National Union of South African…
BiographyMadi Gray
… immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa during the inter-war period. Being a refugee from Germany, her … buildings for ten days. At the time, Gray…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were active members of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Deneys did not … Council (SRC), National Union of South…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the age of 12, from India. He was one of six children, with … At another of RMC’s annual meeting,…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now … 1960 and went on to graduate with…
Sadecque Variava
… (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven siblings. His father held various jobs … protest march of the high schools in Lenasia…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… grateful to his English teacher, David Miller. Miller was the only schoolteacher he named in his brief and unrevised … him for instilling in him an informed…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an … to take on National Union of South…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… Strikes in the Schools Presumably, not all students of the earlier … a teacher at one of the schools recounted... read on The NUSAS Issue Throughout the 1960…
ArchiveNUSAS bannings condemned
… Articles in the Cape Times reporting on the condemnation by several leading figures of the banning of eight office bearers of the National Union of … Sir…
BiographyCharles Nupen
… 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a … “Had a huge influence on my thinking and…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… how to look after animals and how to gather seafood from the beach. 1652 First white settlers arrive at the Cape, Jan … that the medium of instruction should…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… 1972 October and December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for … Coronation Brick and Tile in Durban prompts management to issue…
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… grateful to his English teacher, David Miller. Miller was the only schoolteacher he named in his brief and unrevised … him for instilling in him an informed…
BiographyBilly Modise
… him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial discrimination imposed by apartheid which forced … his studies at university. In January 1955…
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other … The National Union of South African…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… matriculating from Nassau High School, Hofmeyr enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he completed a BA in … [ii] . Through this time, his…
BiographyDavid Hemson
… up in a very strict Christian household sheltered from the realities of what was happening in South Africa … and socially. He was drafted out of high school…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living … of political resistance to apartheid as a given, and the issue of…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black … the multi-racial National Union of South African…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months. The wife of the local reverend, Dominee Lukas van der Merwe, … from the…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… Barry Gilder – The ANC Musician, Soldier, and Spy Abstract Barry Gilder is … Although many Black students felt disrespected by the NUSAS members, this…
BiographyDr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper
… in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy Cooper. Cooper matriculated from Sastri College, Durban in…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… works. Leftwich obtained his BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Province (now Western Cape), South Africa and his PhD degree…