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Archive2 Emergencies 1960 and 1986
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…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1960 - 1979
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
Thesis has been submitted for the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal,…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… Pincher maintained that, while in London in the late 1960s, he was able to interview Royal Navy Polaris submarine …
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…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish high…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…
BiographyJames Edward April
… the progressive left wing paper, New Age . By the 1960s when people like Desai and September either were in …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause …
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…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… its own division and the intense repression of the early 1960s, the Congress leadership continued to insist that the …
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with whom he first came to…
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…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in 1947. In the 1960s, while he was still a pupil at primary school, the …
BiographyCecyl Esau
… at the UWC, the old male and female hostels built in the 1960s and 1970s were renamed Cassinga and Cecil Esau. During …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… to criticize the apartheid government throughout the 1960s. Through its newsletter, Unity, APDUSA offered regular … movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the…
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
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…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… he realized a liberated life. From an early age in the mid-1960s Tariq started a life-long interest in slavery heritage …
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…
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…