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BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. This … new residential areas, new parallel…
BiographyLydia Kompe
… Kompe was born in 1935 in Matlala, near Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Her father was … farmer who kept livestock. However, in…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents … school in Crammond, Natal. His first…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… The participation of young people in the liberation struggle … of young people who played active roles in the Durban strikes of 1973 and the 1976 student…
BiographyLeslie Massina
… Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective who had been gain access into the African National…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape, on 27 ……
BiographyMohammed Tikly
… Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was brought … in contact with his family, and they…
Pupils reject a call by the Orlando Diepkloof School Board to return to school. The strike spreads to Pimville Higher Primary S
… Pupils reject a call by the Orlando Diepkloof School Board to return to school. The strike spreads to Pimville Higher Primary S …
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 … formal education. 1800 Christian…
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… Tiro spent time with his uncle where he assisted him with the running of the bakery business. He started his schooling … Primary School. The school was…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal … in wages and working conditions through pressure…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… 1976 According to the government-appointed Cillie Commission of Enquiry 575 … the Cillie Commission that at least 46 incidents of arson, strikes and…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… Resistance to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa Conditions in Rustenburg … of Gertrude Mpheka, protested against the Pass Laws…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… Paarl in Cape Town in early 1930s. Mafekeng left school at the age of 15 to support the family. Her first job was at a “canning factory where … week.” She…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township , Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Cape …
EventCyclone Favio, a powerful tropical storm, strikes Mozambique
… 22 February 2007, a category 4 cyclone named Favio struck the central province of Inhambane in Mozambique. Although the cyclone was concentrated in Inhambane…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later relocated to … the community…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited … there were attempted assaults on staff as well as hunger strikes and refusals to work …
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to the Wilberforce Native Teacher’s College. He then worked as a … the 1950s in its increasingly radical…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an … in Benoni, then moved to springs…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 … where his father ran a successful import-export business. The…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
… then moved to Durban to look for work. Maphalala joined the trade union movement in the mid-1970s following the 1973 Durban strikes. As a result he spent a…
BiographyRichard Msimang
… Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… was of mixed Scottish and Khoi descent and belonged to the Protestant Congregational Church. Much of his childhood was spent in Port Alfred, near the Kowie…
BiographyOmar Badsha
… in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the country's small but influential Gujarati Vhora Muslim … the trade union movement in the wake of…
BiographyDavid Hemson
… up in a very strict Christian household sheltered from the realities of what was happening in South Africa … TWIU organiser and secretary. They began…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton , near Pretoria . Her … children and…
BiographyEmil Sachs
… was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later … also held leading positions in the GWU…