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A 'Public Health Nuisance': The Victoria Street Early Morning Squatters Market, 1910-1934 by Goolam Vahed
Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt
An Appeal to Thinking South Africans by Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, 1930s, South Africa
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
BiographyPaul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida…
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
BiographySydney Kumalo
It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
Language Shift, Cultural Change and Identity Retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and Beyond by Rajend Mesthrie
Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi, SA artist, is born in Guguletu, Cape. He exhibited three times during the 1980s.
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… in our society but in the steps of the Union Buildings. 1910s - Anti-pass campaigns ↵ By the turn of the century, …
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographyMohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
Introduction This feature examines the history of forced removals in Johannesburg up to the destruction of Sophiatown. It begins by establishing the link…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a…
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
When? The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has puzzled scientists ever…
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
Sidney Mendelssohn, collector of Africana and author of the South African Bibliography in 1910, dies in London.
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown |1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s …