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ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…
ArchiveNUSAS in the 1970s
Position paper by Neville Curtis, President of the National Union of South African Students, prepared for the 46th Annual Congress of the Union, 14th to 25th…
Politics in the 1980s
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the…
BiographyDaniel R Koza
Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… at the Cape Supreme Court. They set up home in the late 1950s in Newlands , Cape Town and lived there for over forty …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… sentence for this infringement of the law. During the 1950s Naicker was president of the SAIC for at least two …
BiographyEmil Sachs
… but excluding this he had no regular income. In the late 1950s the British Labour Party asked him to stand as their …
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… people with little else to cheer about. Moroka Swallows (1950s) After the Second World War and the rise of apartheid, … into close contact with formal…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…
BiographyR. Daniel
Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful business…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… clearly at his trial in 1944. He spent much of the 1950s protesting Apartheid legislation such as the Group …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… leadership in 1945. Due to more militant protests, by the 1950s and 1960s several of the NIC?s leaders were in jail. … in 1961. Due to these more militant…
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
BiographySoromini Kallichurum
Soromini Kallichurum was born in 1932 in Ladysmith, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree…
BiographyVivienne Ncakeni
Vivienne Ncakeni was born in Brakpan, she was educated in the Transvaal and Natal and trained as a teacher. She returned to Brakpan to teach in the late 1930s…
ArchiveResistance posters of the 1980s
Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition of posters at Roodepoort Museum, from 26th March to 31st May 1997, at Civic Centre, Christiaan de Wet…
ArchiveDebating liberalism in the 1980s
ArchiveCOSATU: challenges of the 1990s
ArchiveNew-speak for the 1990s
BiographyTheophilus Doctorson Khumalo
Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo also known as “16 Valve” was born in Soweto, Johannesburg on 26 June 1967. His father Eliakim “Pro” Khumalo, was a renowned…
BiographyPercy Ndithembile Konqobe
Percy Ndithembile Konqobe was born in 1939 in Nigel, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province). He completed school through standard six (now Grade Eight)…
BiographyChief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign…
BiographyJanub Gool
Janub Gool, also known as 'Jane', was a founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the…