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ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak…
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
… Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port …
BiographyDuke Ketye
Duke Ketye was born was born on 6 June 1943 in Orlando east, Soweto. Ketye attended Ematsheni Primary School in Orlando East, Soweto. He completed Standard VII…
BiographyJim Bailey
James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country…
African Manpower Statistics for the British Forces in East Africa, 1914-1918
The Natal home front in the Great War (1914–1918) by P. S. Thompson
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
BiographyHelen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…
BiographyRica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of…
BiographyJane Gool
Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from India,…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… and Makgatho. It published weekly in English in Pretoria. 1913 The Land Act of 1913 is passed. The Act is yet another piece of legislation …
BiographyKerr Alexander
Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to…
The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
Aliens in South Africa, 1860-1914
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… into the Natal Indian Association when it was started in 1913 and supported the Satyagraha of 1913. He was appointed as one of the trustees of Phoenix … to…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the…
Dora Nginza
Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in Brandfort, Free State. Her father Frederik Johannes Kok was a school principal in Brandfort, where she matriculated in…
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from England…
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
Daniel Sefudi (Dan) Rakgoathe was born on 25 February 1937 in Randfontein, Transvaal. From Standard VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr Maseko, one f the first…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
The Story of the First Battalion Cape Corps (1915 - 1919) by Ivor D. Difford
BiographyEli Weinberg
Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a…