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The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1924-1946 by ESSOP PAHAD D. Phil Thesis, University of Sussex, July 1972 GO TO…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels was born on 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come…
ArchiveConscripts to their age: African National Congress operational strategy, 1976-1986 by Howard Barrell
Introduction Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language CHAPTER 2 - You only win once CHAPTER 3 - Unprepared CHAPTER 4 …
BiographyPaul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…
BiographyDikkie Mxolisi Johannes Jacobs
Dikkie Mxolisi Johannes Jacobs, an active member of a youth organisation in Upington, Northern Cape, was detained on 15 June 1986 during a wider pre-June 16,…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographySarah Carneson
Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force (ATF) preceded the formation of party’s military wing Poqo in February 1960. After…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe was born on 3rd August 1946 in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal. Shilakoe spent his childhood on an isolated mission station at Buchbeesreich…
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). He attended the Bobonong Primary School…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham…
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 14 April 1925. His parents, Carl August and Elsie May Eglin were…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…
BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with whom he first came to…
BiographyLeslie Massina
Leslie Massina was born in 1921 in Pimville, Johannesburg, Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African…
BiographyMabel Palmer
Dr Mabel Palmer (nee Mabel Atkinson) was born on 22 May 1876 near Stocksfield in Northumberland, England. Her father, J.B. Atkinson, was a mine inspector, and…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… in 1907, of which Gandhi was secretary. In September 1906, Transvaal Indians held a large mass meeting in … of the Passive Resistance Movement in South…
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National…
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
The South African writer, Abraham Hermanus de Vries, was born on Tuesday the 9th of February, in 1937, in a small town and agricultural centre of the western…
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose was born on 7 August 1917 at Kwa Mdingi, in King Williams Town. He completed his primary schooling at Kwa Mdingi Lower Primary…
BiographyMichael Gagashe Zondi
Michael Zondi was born on 10 March 1926 in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at Mtulwa, Natal. He…