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BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… pairs of socks. The retail chain industry took root in the 1920s. OK Bazaars was founded in 1927, Woolworths in 1930. …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… in Africa The majority of the political activists of the 1920s - including members of the ICU, the Communist Party and …
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
… African National Congress (ANC) and, in the early 1920s, a secretary-general of the African National Congress. …
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan …
ArchiveOxford: 1950s-1960s: the people resist!
Black, brown, cream and red poster. Photograph of march to Union Buildings by 20,000 women on 9th August 1956 to protest against the pass laws. Issued by the…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
… he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary of the Orange Free State African …
BiographyWilliam H. "Bill" Andrews
… supported the cause of trade unions for Africans, in the 1920s he did not believe that the Commnist Party of South …
BiographyKeable Mote
… races. During the disintegration of the ICU in the late 1920s, he led a secession by branches in the northern Free …
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… their common grievances and ideals. By the end of the 1920s Mahabane was anxious about the growing black following …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
The early 1980s There was little change in the situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s,…
BiographyVictor Poto
… figure in the Pondoland General Council in the late 1920s and in the succeeding United Transkeian Territories …
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… widespread agreement in the SANNC that “the ICU in the mid-1920s was an organisation that had surpassed the ANC in … of the underclasses, albeit for only a…
BiographyStanley Silwana
… and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in the early 1920s and, together with Thomas Mbeki , was instrumental in …
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
… National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape in the mid-1920s. …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… to veto the denial of Coloured franchise rights. In the 1920s and 1930s he led a rearguard action against state … a united black political front. In the…
BiographySylvester Stein
Sylvester Stein was born on 25 December in 1920 in Cape Town, and was brought up in Durban. He studied engineering at Howard College in Natal before serving in…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… ANC. By 1920, Seme’s star was on the wane. Early in the 1920s Seme had an opportunity to revive his career. He served …
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
Kesval “Kay” Moonsamy was born on 5 July 1926. He was active in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from the mid-1940s onward. In the early 1950s he served as…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
… which protested against the Land Act . In the early 1920s he established a newspaper, the Messenger-Morumioa, … State provincial ANC president from 1912…
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
… leaders associated with independent churches in the 1920s. Born in King Williamstown in 1875, Nontetha was … had such a significant impact in the Eastern…
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
Jacob Dumdum Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union…
BiographyMolly Wolton
… in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she left South Africa with her husband and …
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
… J.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee …
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
… in France with an African labor battalion. In the late 1920s he was president of the Cape African National Congress …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
By the turn of the century, despite the fact that women of all races were still virtually restricted to the home, migrant labour had already begun to forge…
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
… a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the Industrial and …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both … protests and strikes became was a common weapon in the 1920s that was used to challenge…
1980s: Women organise
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… Women and Domestic Work Beginning as early as the 1920s, ‘women of all racial groups slowly began to gravitate …