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BiographySoromini Kallichurum
Soromini Kallichurum was born in 1932 in Ladysmith, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
Magwaza Alfred Maphalala was born on 6 April 1948 in Bergville, Ladysmith in Natal. He was an only son. Maphalala completed his schooling and matriculated in…
’Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
’Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
South African Labour history
… by the two South African governments in power in the 1920s …
BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
There had been periodic unrest at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province) from the 1930s onwards. During the 1950s,…
BiographyRajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were from Kimberley in the…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development…
Letter to Defence and Aid Fund for the Rivonia Trial, from Richard Gill, 1960s
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
BiographyRica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… modernisation in White agriculture that had started in the 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the …
BiographySheila Weinberg
Sheila Weinberg was born in Johannesburg on 1 October 1945, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the South African…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she…
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…
BiographyPaula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
The Peoples's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… organizing dockworkers in Cape Town. By the middle of the 1920s, it had spread to other parts of the country, including …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… ensured by different forms of urban control. In the early 1920s, the government of Jan Smuts set out a basic framework …
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her Standard Six primary…
BiographyEric Magamana Lubisi
Eric Magamana Lubisi was born on 11 October 1946 in Highlands, near Eastwood in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the only son and had five sisters. At…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference THE BRIEF: TRADE UNIONS AND POPULAR RESISTANCE IN THE 1980S AND NEW…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her…
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin, Germany on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited…