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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…
Liberation Struggle in South Africa 1950s
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…
ArchiveSharpeville - March 21, 1960 by Petrus Tom
In 1960 before that terrible day of March 21 some workers resigned from work because they were preparing for that day.
ArchiveFighting Talk Volume 14 number 3 August 1960
Fighting Talk - a journal for democrats of all races, africans, indians, coloured and whites, in Southern Africa. Special issue on Africa, 1960.
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… days in Politics. Robert Mugabe rose to prominence in the 1960s when he became influential in Zimbabwean nationalist …
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… border to help get Joe out of the country in the early 1960s. Reggie Vandeyar approached Shirish in December 1962 to …
BiographyNarainsamy Thumbi Naicker
Born 4 April 1922 in Pinetown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Attorney prominent in the South African Indian Congress. He was active in Natal politics as a…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the…
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…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
Levitan was born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in…
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…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
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…
ArchiveThe Christian Church Since 1960
Oliver Tambo Speeches 1960-1964
Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 9, 7 May 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 7, 2 April 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 5, 5 March 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 1, 9 January 1960
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson The years between 1930 and the 1940s were ones of profound…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
CONTENTS The Heart of Darkness. Cartoon, Papas. The Pondoland Massacre, Dennis Kiley. Cartoon, Gask. South Africa’s Emergency, Alan Rake. Pretoria Central Goal…
BiographyDebi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in…
BiographyMadi Gray
… to work on South Africa again. This was because in the 1960s, the group initiated a boycott of South Africa and …
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The Â…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop of…
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…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… had been popularized throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the fifties brought about the emergence of … Writing and cultural expression that…