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ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the fifties brought about … entertaining stories published in…
Henry Mutile Fazzie
Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of the…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
”The A.N.C. is Alive”, flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
… taught Afrikaans at secondary school level until the late 1950s.During the 1957-59 uprising in the Hurutshe reserve …
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
Gallery
… on the applicable image However, it was not until the 1950s that the Women’s struggle really gained momentum. In fact the 1950s is often referred to as the …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… to achieve national liberation developed during the 1950s – and this bond extended into the exile years and … bond built up in exile post 1950. From the…
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
David Hepburn Craighead was born on 18 December 1918, in Benoni, in what was known as the Transvaal Province (Gauteng). He was born to parents of English and…