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| A-0065371 | article | Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA) | 30 Jun 2011 | – |
| A-0069432 | article | Popular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960 | 9 Nov 2011 | – |
| B-0008660 | biography | Lele Jacob Motaung | 1954 | – |
| B-0067935 | biography | Nombuso Mchunu | – | – |
| B-0096273 | biography | Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa | – | – |
| B-0080383 | biography | Zolile Hamilton Keke | 1945-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0007856 | biography | Diana (Di) Bishop | – | – |
| A-0059390 | article | End Conscription Campaign (ECC) | 30 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008407 | biography | Cecilia Makiwane | 1880-1919 | – |
| B-0009054 | biography | Annie Silinga | 1910-1984 | – |
| B-0080525 | biography | Bokwe James Mafuna | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0008199 | biography | Fanie Jason | 1953 | – |
| B-0084331 | biography | Michael Guthrie Scott | 1907-1983 | – |
| A-0059561 | article | Cape Schools Join the Revolt | 31 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0093854 | biography | Roger Meintjes | 1963 | – |
| B-0007850 | biography | Gerard Bhengu | 1910-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0068535 | biography | Nimrod Boyce Tantsi | – | – |
| B-0009142 | biography | Jo Thorpe | 1921-1995 | – |
| B-0098953 | biography | David Tsolwane Uhuru Hlongwane | 1963 | ✓ |
| B-0008926 | biography | Lucas Radebe | 1969 | ✓ |
| B-0125633 | biography | Pitso John Mosimane | 1964 | ✓ |
| B-0098835 | biography | Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0149221 | biography | Petrus Nzima Nyawose | 1982 | ✓ |
| B-0149947 | biography | Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka | 1957-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0151749 | biography | Krishna Rabilal | 1952-1981 | ✓ |
| A-0059706 | article | June 17 | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0064519 | article | General South African History Timeline: 1990s | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0065208 | article | Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre | 13 Jun 2011 | – |
| B-0068439 | biography | Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi | 1950 | ✓ |
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… WCCA organised a campaign against forced removals in the townships and informal settlements in Cape Town. The WCCA was …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… Smuts was incapable of dealing with growing unrest in the townships as well as the increasing number of strikes. The … soon after the NP government assumed…
BiographyLele Jacob Motaung
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners and banned…
BiographyNombuso Mchunu
On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union, while she looked for permanent work. Her…
BiographySylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa
Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s…
BiographyZolile Hamilton Keke
Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh High School in East London where…
Diana (Di) Bishop
Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town. She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic. During the celebrations,…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… printed this poster against sending troops into the townships, in 1985. The ECC worked closely with the UDF. … conscription laws, the war in Angola, the…
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a teacher and a minister and…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
BiographyFanie Jason
Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… to delays in housing delivery, and the African designated Townships became dangerously overcrowded. Fed up with waiting, bands of people began to leave the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following June 16. After the first shootings in … had experienced in June. Administrative…
BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
BiographyJo Thorpe
Jo Thorpe was born in 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town. She grew up in Mooi River and completed her high school education at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School…
BiographyDavid Tsolwane Uhuru Hlongwane
… Press, Alice.| Younge, G. (1988) Art of the South African Townships ,Rizzoli, New York.|Siwanqaza, R.Z., ‘ David …
BiographyLucas Radebe
Lucas Radebe was born on 12 April 1969 in Diepkloof, Soweto. When he was 15 years old, his parents sent him away to Bophuthatswana to avoid the violence in the…
BiographyPitso John Mosimane
Pitso John Mosimane was born on 26 July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg. He is a former South African football player and…
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali was born on 17 January 1940 in Vryheid, Natal, where he attended Inkmana High School. His parents were schoolteachers. He moved to…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
Krishna Rabilal was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). A quiet…
June 17
… sanctions. The protest action also spread to other townships around Soweto. In Thembisa, students organised a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… 1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety … one against a synagogue. 8 July, Thousands of…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… than strict policing, Sharpeville, like all other townships created by the NP government, was made to pay for … the town council. The lives of residents of…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni…