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Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC in an Emergency Meeting on May 21, 1950
Post-Mortem on a Tragedy.” Editorial on the events of May 1, by Jordan K.. Ngubane, in May 20, 1950
The Mali opposition says government troops killed nearly 150 people in three days of pro-democracy protests.
Denis Warburton Begbie, SA cricket player in five tests (1947-1950), is born in Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal.
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
BiographyEmil Sachs
Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs'…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood Park, Durban, where…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
BiographyC. S. Ramohanoe
C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal African National Congress (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…
The University Christian Movement ‘s (UCM) Second Annual Conference, held at Stutterheim (9-15 July), is attended by 150 studen
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF OLD MUTUAL Cape Town, 17 May 1995
Dick King returns by boat to Natal after his ten-days horse-ride of 960km to Grahamstown.
Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.
Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth.
250 persons demonstrate outside the South African embassy in Washington in protest against apartheid and President Reagan’s pol
The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
BiographyZolile Malindi
Zolile Malindi was born on 16th of May in 1924 Gqogqora village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death…
BiographyDundubela Aubrey Mokoena
Dundubela Aubrey Mokoena, was the former executive director of the Black Community Programmes (BCP). November 1978. Soweto. he was released from prison and…
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
The first 90-day detainees are held in South Africa. Some sources say that the first detainees were held under the 90-day law o
BiographyEsther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed…
BiographyFrank Wiles
Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…