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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…
BiographyMike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded the Boycott…
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered…
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
BiographyRuth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… came from Boipatong. During the 1980s and early in the 1990s thousands of families were forced off the land on white … that swept through the Vaal townships…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Fihla grew up in PE from 1945, after his parents…
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…
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,…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, where he was employed as a dock worker, waiter, hospital…
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
Selloane Ethel Leisa was born on 22* February 1914 in Ga-Marishane, Northern Transvaal, (now Limpopo Province). Upon completing her schooling, she moved to…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin September 1990
Cover of South African Labour Bulletin. Volume 15 Number 3, September 1990 Special Edition. Grey, brown, red, black and white poster. Photograph of ANC…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin August 1990
Cover of the South African Labour Bulletin. Volume 15 Number 2, August 1990. Purple, black and white poster. List of SAMWU demands. Black and white photographs…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin November 1990
Front cover of South African Labour Bulletin. Volume 15 Number 4, November 1990. Blue, black and white poster. Artwork of a Mercedes car with a machine gun…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin February 1990
Red, black, grey and white poster. Cover of the South African Labour Bulletin. Volume 14 Number 6, February 1990. Artwork of a hammer and sickel over a map of…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… for a democratic South Africa commenced in the early 1990s, Govender was a delegate to the Convention for a …
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
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
This article critically analyses the development of the Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s
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…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. The general election on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying…
ArchiveApdusa Views April 1990
ArchiveAfra Newsletter Number 5 1990
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