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BiographyDouglas G. Wolton
Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to South…
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth,…
BiographyZwelakhe Sisulu
Zwelakhe Sisulu was born in Soweto on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu. He was the third of five children. When he…
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…
Siva Pillay
Siva Pillay was a B.Sc. student at university in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s…
BiographyDingaan Bongani Thobela
Dingaan Bongani “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela was born at Baragwanath hospital on 24 September 1966. His mother named him Bongani, but his paternal grandmother…
BiographyMoses Moichela
Moses Moichela, from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal, [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]was banished to “Natives Reserve 7B” in…
BiographySolomon Thamaga
Solomon Thamaga was banished from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal, [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]to the Natives Reserve 10 …
BiographyGilbert R Tsikalanga
Gilbert R Tsikalanga was headman in the Mphaphuli Tribal area, Sibasa District, [Northern] Transvaal, [now Tshivhase, Limpopo Province] He was relieved of…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… activities. With a British Council scholarship in 1946 he proceeded on a study tour of Europe and a period of …
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… as people mobilised for the provision of basic needs. In 1946, a non-racial Women’s Food Committee was formed. The … was composed of the working class. On…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… as people mobilised for the provision of basic needs. In 1946, a non-racial Women’s Food Committee was formed. The … was composed of the working class. On…
The Hour of Youth has Struck: The African National Congress Youth League and the Struggle for a Mass Base, 1943-1952 by Chris Giffard
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 13 and 14 October 1976, Volume 27
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Ezra Mandikole Mantini, Mangaliso Alf Kumalo and Enoch William Dumizani Duma, all reporters from the Sunday Times…
Summary of notes of a meeting between a South African and a United States delegation on the question of South West Africa: Geneva, 21 April 1986
Report from a meeting between a South African and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in southern Africa
Summary notes of a meeting between a South African and United States delegation on the question of South West Africa/Namibia: Geneva, 13 February 1986
Report of a meeting between a South African and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in southern Africa with regard to Dr Savimbi's visit to the…
Rubin Hare, affidavit re treatment by police following arrest on November 7, 1974, in Cape Town, International Universities Exchange Fund, The New Terrorists, 1976
An affidavit, written on 13 February 1975, by Rubin William Hare regarding his treatment by police following his arrest on 7 November 1974 in Cape Town
To Town!!! To Eloff!!! To That Exclusive White Paradise!!! From Monday!!! Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council announcing demonstration on September 23,1976
Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader who was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 1964, is born in Grea
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
National Director of the Legal Resources Centre; Members of the Fischer family; Dr Bill Venter; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the death of President Samora Machel Mbuzini, 17 October 1996
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the death of President Samora Machel Mbuzini, 17 October 1996
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Pixley kaIsaka Seme, Isaac Seme), barrister and president of the ANC from 1930 to 1936, is born at a miss
Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv
George VI, who became king when his brother abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, is born. He visited SA in 1947 with his family.
Sokhaya Charles Nkosi, SA graphic artist, is born in Durban. He was employed by the SABC (1982-1986) and is since then senior
BiographyRichard Mzamane Mabaso
1981: Gallery 21 (Haenggi Foundation National Art Competition). 1983: Milner Park, Johannesburg (SA contempoprary art). Gallery 21 (two-person exhibition with…
BiographyGodfrey Sekhukhune
Mogaramedi Godfrey Sekhukhune was one of the ‘most important’ of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s…
BiographyMxoshwa Mdhluli
Mxoshwa Mdhluli and Mhlupeki Hlongwane were banished, from Ngoba Location, Bergville District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] on 11 April 1957. Their banishment…
BiographySimon P. Mkalipi
One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial, he was born in 1913 in Grahams town and completed the sixth grade. He worked as a cigarette salesman in…