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BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
… a member of the Africans' Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now …
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, … then worked as a teacher until 1949. In the…
BiographyBarney William Ngakane
… secretary for the Institute of Race Relations in the early 1950s, he has more recently worked for the Christian …
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
… towards the coast in the Eastern Cape. As a young man in 1950s, he worked for a few years as a migrant worker on the … (MK).He recruited President Jacob Zuma…
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
… him to resign from 24 organizations. In the late 1950s Desai moved to Cape Town,changed his name to Shabaan …
Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt
… Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt …
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
… the major anti apartheid campaigns of the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, the Moonsamy and his brothers played …
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
… the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing about African-Indian … Marxism, and orthodox Islamic…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
… two former friends remained at odds throughout most of the 1950s. At home with neither the left nor the extreme nationalist wings of the ANC, Ngubane in the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… time the most senior ANC member who was active during the 1950s, with the proposal. While Gumede appeared to be …
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
Durant Basi Sihlali was born on 5 March 1935 in an industrial area, Germiston, Transvaal, now known as Gauteng Province. Due to harsh living conditions, his…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
… leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish high …
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
… in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was instrumental in bringing about African/Indian …
Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
… voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner …
BiographyNell Kaye
… at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT in the 1950s. She was one of the few professional sculptors, aside …
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… organiser for sugar workers, and for some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the left-wing … and leading role in the major campaigns and…
BiographyFrances Baard
… formed an ANC Women's League in Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. In 1954 the two women were active in building up the …
ArticleHow uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… secretary and interpreter for Sam Kahn and in the early 1950s served as a campaign manager for several white … Member of the ANC and the CPSA, in the early…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
… in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he …
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
… the government's Western Areas removal scheme in the mid-1950s. In December 1952 he was elected to the national …
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
… member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress in the early 1950s and a delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in …
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
… few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South … Coloured People's Organisation in…
Hettie Du Preez
… leader of the Garment Workers Union (GWU) in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1947, she worked on launching a left-wing, …
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
… chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial . He was … of a general dealer's store in Alexandra,…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… fights a Christian king, Shepstone. The play starts in the 1950s, where Cetshwayo defeats his rival brother Mbuyazi for … The legacies of this dispute…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
… political career, but government banning orders in the mid-1950s barred him from all political activity, and he was …
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
… Executive Committee (ANC) Executive Committee during the 1950s, and in 1954 was also elected as National president of … 1956. She led the women’s anti-pass…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… its secretary. Reginald September went abroad in the early 1950s and on his return in 1953 he became one of the …
BiographyBilly Paddock
… grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where he …