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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…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the…
BiographyEdgar Harry Brookes
Edgar Harry Brookes was born in England on February 4th,1897 and emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in…
List of All People imprisoned during the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign
… List of All People imprisoned during the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign …
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946 …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
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…
BiographyAzaria Mbatha
Azaria Mbatha was born in 1941. Azaria was educated at a mission school for eight years. In 1961 he left Ceza Secondary School and began working as a clerk…
BiographySheila Cussons
… magazine Die Huisgenoot and later in Standpunte . In 1946, the first Stiebeuel Anthology published seven of her …
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
… Note: Moses Kotane wrote to Dr. Xuma on January 30, 1946, to congratulate him on his cable regarding South West … of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma,…
BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… conservative racial policies.Unfortunately, as the 1946 elections drew near, the divergent desires of its … the African Bureau, arrested for his…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… years, or had worked for the same employer for 10 years. 1946 The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act …
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Congress. Dr. Naicker succeeds A.I. Kajee as President. 1946 Albert Luthuli becomes the Natal representative on the …
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka was born on 10 June 1938 in Raphahla Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale Phokanoka…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Roosevelt Primary School in Johannesburg. On 13 December 1946 he married Connie van den Bergh. They had two sons and …
Memo by Dr. Xuma to UN Secretary-General, Nov 1946 (from Peter Limb)
… Memo by Dr. Xuma to UN Secretary-General, Nov 1946 (from Peter Limb) …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …
CHAPTER IV: The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 …