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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.
BiographyVuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… of inÂdustrial unions of the mass of workers. From the 1920s onward, a fertile ground existed at least to lay down … was that the Communist International…
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…
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…
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…
Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
Testimony of Meshach Pelem, President, Bantu Union, before the Select Committee on Native Affairs, June 11, 1920 [Extract]
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 …
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles,…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… opposite the Rissik Street post office. By the end of the 1920s, the town’s economy had tightened considerably and, … as an area for commercial expansion,…
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father,John Knox Bokwe, in Ugie…
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
Isaac Zakes Nkosi, known to his fans as Bra Zakes, was born in Alexandra Township early in 1919. He started his schooling in Alexandra at a Catholic primary…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In…