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BiographyArthur Butelezi
Butelezi was educated at the Wesleyan Methodist School, Volks rust where he received drawing lessons. He then attended Kinlinton Training School in Pretoria…
BiographyKagiso Patrick Mautloa
Kagiso Patrick (called Pat) Mautloa was born 24 September 1952 in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal. Mautloa's family moved to Soweto in 1954. He attended…
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
Heinrich Egersdorfer was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1853. He trained in lithography in Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the…
BiographyIzak de Villiers
Izak de Villiers was born in Paarl on 30 July 1936. He attended Paarl Gymnasium, a school for which he maintained a lifelong passion. He was also a dominee, a…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
Walter Sisulu joined the ANC in 1940. He was elected to the executive committee of the ANC Youth League in 1944 and in 1949, was instrumental in the ANC's…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
Jonas Mosa Gwangwa was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…
BiographyLaurence Neill Nathan
Laurence Neil Nathan was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1959 to Jewish South African parents. He grew up in Sea Point where he…
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…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
Govan Mbeki (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and…
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…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…
James Tyita
Mr James Tyita died on 24 January 1964 after being detained in Port Elizabeth.He was detained under the 90-day detention law.The official cause of death was…
BiographyJohn Mtini
Born in 1887, John Mtini was the 'Grand Old Man' of the trial who took part in the 1929 anti-pass campaigns, the struggles of the unemployed of 1931-2, the…
BiographyBertram Buxton Xiniwe
Bertram Buxton Xiniwe was born in Middledrift in the Cape, the son of Paul Xiniwe, who subsequently became a well-known hotel operator in King William's Town…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
Umkhonto We Sizwe - "Born of the people" This day 25 years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… 1955. He quoted from Dr Naicker’s speeches between 1946 and 1954 to argue that cumulatively they ‘vilified’ …
BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
As a trader in the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national ANC deputy-speaker. He was a…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
Thabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetlawas born in Lydenburg, eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 18 May 1957. He joined the South African Student…
Robert L Barber
In February 1977 a Cape Times report revealed that a detainee,Mr Robert L Barber,had died in detention in October 1976 in the police cells in Durban.No further…
BiographyPeter Kaya Selepe
One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, Selepe was born in 1919 and served in the South African army in World War II, attaining the…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Source: africanmediaonline The Tomlinson Commission of 1946 recommended that the government should invest …
BiographySidumo Dlamini
Sidumo “Sdumo” Dlamini was born in a rural village of Nsthingila Hlatsikhulu in Swaziland on 2 March 1966. He moved to South Africa with his aunt at a young…
BiographyTlou Matlala
Tlou Matlala was banished on 11 June 1952 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo] to Zwelitsha Native Reserve, King…
BiographyPhuti Matlala
Phuti Matlala was banished on 7 March 1951 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]to Verdwaal Farm,…
BiographyRichard Molete
In 1956, police killed four and injured others during a march in Lichtenburg [Northern Transvaal, now North West Province] that protested against passes for…
BiographyMadibeng Chris Mokoditoa
Restricted to Johannesburg. Madibeng Chris Mokoditoa was an Articled clerk, studying to become an attorney. He was the secretary of the University of…
BiographyS. J. J. Lesolang
S. J. J. Lesolang was born and educated in the Transvaal, he taught at Kilnerton during the 1940s and was president of the Transvaal African Teachers'…
BiographyGodfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo
Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo was born in 1909, he grew up in Bloemfontein, graduated from Wilberforce Institute, and studied journalism through…
BiographyLele Jacob Motaung
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners and banned…