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BiographyAnthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
… graduated from St Peter's School in Johannesburg in 1946.After working for several years in the Department of …
South African Constitution 1996
The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in this country. The…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… on the race issue” was steadily growing. In the summer of 1946 Abrahams headed to Paris for the Paris Peace Conference. … through his writing was beginning…
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
Father Trevor Huddleston was born on 15 June 1913 in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England to Ernest Huddleston and his wife. Soon after, the family moved to Golders…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & … on Delegations PRC Delegates to United States On 10 July 1946,…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… Abdurahman in the Cape in 1902. He was active in the 1946 National Mine Workers Strike as chairperson of the …
BiographyAlec Erwin
Alexander Erwin (Alec Erwin) was born on 17 January 1948 in Cape Town to Dennis and Rosamund Erwin. Alec, as he became known, matriculated from Durban High…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… conditions in South Africa that gave rise to this disease. 1946 was also the time of Passive Resistance in Durban and …
BiographyMurphy Morobe
Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and…
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa PLANS FOR 1944
BiographyProfessor Harold Jack Simons
… trial that followed the African mineworkers' strike of 1946 and a member of the central committee of the Communist … at the University of Cape Town, charged…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… She became involved with the Garment Workers’ Union in 1946 and was one of the first Black women to be elected to …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… organised separately in their own political formations. 1946 Bram Fischer and 49 others are charged with incitement … as a consequence of the strike by…
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was…
BiographyEli Weinberg
Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
… of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924-1946 . D.Phil thesis, University of Sussex, 1972. …
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - List of Passive Resistors
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & … Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…
BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyPiet Makgofe
… African National Congress in 1938 and was active in the 1946 African miners' strike. …
BiographyFikile Charles Bam
Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when…