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BiographyJanub Gool
Janub Gool, also known as 'Jane', was a founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the…
BiographyChief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign…
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Paper proposal for the CCAWUSA and Independent Socialists Panel …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… Eleanor joined the underground SACP in the late 1950s. She was among the first women to join the ranks of …
BiographyM. N. Bhola
M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province. She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. His father died while he was still young and this had negative socio…
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…
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
This article critically analyses the development of the Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father,John Knox Bokwe, in Ugie…
BiographyElizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyWycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi
President of the All African Convention (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later…
ArchiveOxford : 1960s - 80s : State repression intensifies
Brown, red and black poster. Photograph of hundreds of rope nooses. Quote from Max Coleman. Photographs of Ahmed Timol, Neil Aggett who died in detention and…
ArchiveOxford: 1990s: the move to democracy
Brown, black, red and white poster. Photograph of De Klerk, Mandela and Mbeki, past, present and future presidents, with hands held high at Mandela's…
ArchiveANC Youth League in the 1990s
Paper following discussion between South African Youth Congress and the African National Congress Youth Section Secretariat regarding launching the youth…
ArchiveA study of strikes in the 1970s
ArchiveOxford: 1970s: the youth take charge
Brown, red and black poster. Large photograph of the Soweto Uprising in June 1976. Quote from Nelson Mandela. Short bits of history and photographs from 1970…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
BiographyJohn Gomas
John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of…
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 141 "Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga/maskhandi of the hostel dwellers, bubblegum … slums and mensetaal (People's language…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… was born in 1917. In his early childhood, aged 4 in the 1950s when Tariq’s mother had her back to the wall she was …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance. The Transvaal Indian Congress was …
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
BiographyCecil Sols
Cecil Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… the years of the intensifying apartheid legislation of the 1950s. We did not stop the laws from being passed but we did … in for much stronger suppression of…
BiographyEric Miller
Eric Miller was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… apartheid. A significant turning point for Asmal in the 1950s Defiance Campaign era came as a politicized Matric …