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BiographyFrances Baard
… South Africa. As a budding activist she drew her influence from Raymond Mhlaba and Ray Alexander . She was a trade unionist and a women's leader from the…
ArchiveThe history of the Black mans struggle for l
… of the Institute of Black Studies, Wilgespruit, 13-18 July 1976, traces the history of the political development of South Africa from the first Dutch…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On 13 October … he could and did tear my life to pieces, set me apart from my fellows and deny me association…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… working class in the class struggle. SWAPO claimed support from all the Namibian local tribes. In an attempt to divide … as a liberation movement which…
BiographyRev. Joseph J Doke
… of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from this position if his pro-Indian sympathies were …
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
… a defendant in the Treason Trial for its full length, from 1956 to 1961. He moved to Swaziland after 1961. …
BiographyBetty Radford
… was taken against the newspaper for publishing extracts from the Africa Mineworkers’ Union’s evidence to the Lansdown …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… squads were in operation inside and outside the country from 1969 to 1994 [3] . Vlakplaas was one of these squads and … along the banks of the Hennops river …
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… is accurate, not romantic: an image of actions springing from emotion, knocking deliberation aside. The city is … born. An important black leader who does,…
BiographyStephen Mini
… also among the first leaders of the Natal Native Congress from its founding in 1900 -1901. He became its president in … • Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977)…
BiographyClive Van den Berg
… a BA(FA). He lectured in Art History at UN(P) in 1982. From 1983 he was a lecturer at the Technikon Natal. He has …
BiographyAlan Wieder
… numerous academic articles, hais books include Voices from Cape Town Classrooms, Teacher and Comrade, and most …
BiographyChristina Jasson
… was acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and people hoped that … protesting against the government’s…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… was established. After the formation of A.N.S.B. students from Universities of Bloemfontein, Potchefstroom and Pretoria withdrew from NUSAS. Stellenbosch was…
Samuel Chibane
… to attack government installations, stealing bombs from a government arsenal and sabotage. He was convicted …
BiographyPatrick O’Connor
… O'Connor was born in Bloemfontein. From 1960 to 1964 he studied at WITS where he obtained a …
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
… a midfielder for Orlando Pirates in the 1960s, died from a car crash. At the time his mother abandoned him. Sono …
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
… in 1956. He was one of the accused in the Treason trial from December 1956 until charges against him were dropped in …
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… suspected the extraordinary story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth . … Empire. All the 204 slaves freed by…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… as indentured labourers. His father was born in Inanda and from humble beginnings became a successful farmer. Ramgobin … Winnie Mandela , who was banished to…
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
… African National Congress (ANC) of planning to remove him from power in Ciskei. In August 1992 he prevented ANC marchers from King Williams Town to enter…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… he spent rainy days studying Mathematics from textbooks found in a storeroom. In 1927 he joined The … note to guide him. If his judgements were not always…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… everything that I had learned for my PhD, I had to unlearn from the lectures he gave... That's when I became interested … movement. He worked with with his…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
… ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, … gained an independent following he began to…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… a prosecutor and later a magistrate. In 1977, he resigned from the Department of Justice, and in June of that year was … on its steering committee. Langa…
BiographyEthel Walt
… her courage and conviction forced her to move away from this comfort to fight against the injustices of … (now North West Province), who had already been…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… struggle. Towards his release, he was transferred from Robben Island to Leeukop prison on 6 May 1983 and … of the Central Committee on 12 August 1985. He…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
… western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant family of Tswana origin. … Lazar Bach, then chairman of the CPSA,…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… prefect in Zimasa Higher Primary School in Langa during 1976. He was involved in protests on the ground, as well as … member and executive member of Langa…