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BiographyHyman Meir Basner
Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
BiographyMonty Johannes Motloung
Motloung started his primary schooling at Mmuso Lower Primary School in 1965. Ten years later, in 1975, Motloung went to pursue his secondary education at…
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a teacher and a minister and…
BiographyFikile Magadledla
Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, on 13 December 1952. As a young boy…
BiographyDezso Koenig
Dezso Koenig was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1902. He emigrated to South Africa from Hungary in 1931. After his training at the Hungarian Academy in Budapest he…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…
BiographyLulu Dube
Lulu Dube was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline (neè Khumalo) Dube and their last surviving daughter…
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was sentenced…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… , for example, asserts: ‘[i]f the Khoi[khoi], the San , and especially the slaves, were not forced to learn … and Indonesian; and the indigenous Kh[oikhoi]…
Despite discussions with the SA Rugby Board, the ANC asks the International Rugby Board to prohibit a SA tour of the World Rugb
Air services is inaugurated in SA with the amalgamation of a London-based company and a SA-based company under the name of the
The Security police disclose the existence of an underground group the Yu Chi Chan, said to include people trained in Peking an
The Defence and Aid Fund is banned as an unlawful organisation under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is an autonomous Sout
Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, dies in London.
The Mail & Guardian goes to court to challenge an urgent interdict forcing it to remove from its website an SABC report int
The SA delegation to the UN walks out during the debate on apartheid, claiming that it is interfering with SA domestic affairs.
An explosion set off in an outdoor bazaar in Cairo’s Old City kills two tourists and wounds at least 19 other people.
A SA woman, Olivia Forsyth, allegedly a spy for the SA government against the ANC, who has been holed up in the British Embassy
Eleven residents are killed in an attack on an all-night funeral vigil aimed at remedying lack of support for Inkatha chairman,
SA Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha warns that SA will not tolerate the introduction of Cuban troops and will not hesitate
Helen Beatrice May Joseph, SA political and human rights activist, dies in Johannesburg. She came to SA in 1931 and, with Lilia
BiographyMathews Samuel Mjiza
June 1982. Banned for two years under the Internal Security Act.
BiographyStonki Duncan Mhlongo
Mhlongo was banned from attending meetings under the Suppression of Communism Act.
BiographyWilliam Maxajana
William Maxajana (alias Max Thomas) was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.
BiographyLele Mabele
Lele Mabele a member of the Pan Africanist Congress and a trade unionist, was shot at home.
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
Professor Firoz Cachalia holds a BA degree, a BA (Hons) degree, an LLB and a Higher Diploma in Company Law from Witwatersrand University. Cachalia is currently…
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa. Their task was to…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
The Reverend Michael Scott was born on 30 July 1907 at Lowfield Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was…
BiographyAndrew Mokone
Andrew Mokone was banned for 5 years under the Suppression of Communism Act and prohibited from attending gatherings.
BiographyRamafokisi Mathews Mofokeng
Ramafokisi Matthews Mofokeng was banned in July 1966 for two years under the Suppression of Communism Act.