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Liberation Struggle in South Africa 1950s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The Â…
Dan Tloome
Born in the Orange Free State, Tloome became involved in trade union work in the 1930s and joined the Communist Party. In 1941 he was chosen vice-president of…
BiographyZacharia Solly Shoke
Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township,…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… sherry, dessert wine, port and brandy, and from the 1940s also into world-renowned red wines. The KWV spent …
BiographyMoebien Wadee
Moebien Wadee was born in Sophiatown in 1943. He schooled in the area before his family moved to Kliptown. He studied medicine at Glasgow University in…
BiographyZolile Hamilton Keke
Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh High School in East London where…
BiographyLutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic worker, washing…
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick…
BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… the 1920s slums and mensetaal (People's language) of the 1940s and 1950s. This language is made up of Afrikaans and a …
ArchiveOxford : 1980s : Total strategy - reform or repression?
Photograph of Casspir. Issued by the Apartheid Museum.
”Stand Fast!”, flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
uMkhonto weSizwe flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
Henry Mutile Fazzie
Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of the…
BiographyDr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation (June 1956), Nelson…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
Letter To Professor D. D. T. Jabavu, July 5, 1940
Letter To Prof. D. D. T. Jabavu, July 4, 1940
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. By the late 1940s the African American intellectual leadership of the … of many Pan-Africanist advocates, as in…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
Stephen Dlamini was born in 30 November 1913 in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal). As a factory worker, Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks,…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African … began to change. The labour shortages of…