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ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… photographer, Peter Magubane , is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert … trade union activist, and member of the…
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
… Mbeki and others. She was a founder member of the South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU) , which is the predecessor of the Congress of South African…
BiographyBilly Nair
… and resignation of the General Secretary of the South African Tin Workers Union (SATWU), S.V.Reddy, Nair became the … secretly reconstituted South African…
BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
… later at a bakery where he became an organizer foir the African Food and Canning Workers' Union.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist…
BiographyNzimeni Elliot Mfaxa
… and met P. K. Leballo. In 1949 he was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) in Port Elizabeth by Raymond … the ephemeral bulletin of the East…
BiographyDumisani Abraham Mabaso
… Dumisani Abraham Mabaso was born on 20 June 1955 in Soweto. He received his initial basic art training at … printmaking at the Johannesburg Art Foundation…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
… spent ten days in prison after refusing to pay a fine. In 1955 she became Transvaal secretary, then national … her working life as an office assistant for…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
… June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government introduced the Bantu Authorities Act in … however, persuaded the Bunga to accept…
BiographyAndrew Meintjes
… Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office …
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
… factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… Twelve African leaders, mainly from the African National Congress (ANC), issued a Call for African Unity. These leaders included I. B. Tabata, Professor ……
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… Sauda, to teach Masakela the basics of the instrument. In 1955, along with Chief Albert Luthuli and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo … Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe, the…
BiographyMorris Ranoto
… Morris Ranoto was banished on19 January 1955 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, …
BiographyEric Hendrik Louw
… Affairs. He was appointed to the finance portfolio in 1955, became Minister of Foreign Affairs two years later, and …
ArticleSouth African History Online and Southern Methodist University Partnership Project
… South African History Online annually hosts “virtual internships” … South African History Online and Southern Methodist University …
BiographyElize Botha
… cum laude, at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1955. The title of her thesis was Veelheid en binding (On the … matters to the Afrikaans programme…
ArchiveAfrican Women's Voices
… African Women's Voices …
"Africanism"under the microscope
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… A five-day conference of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) held in Cape Town , … Act (No. 28 of 1946) or "Ghetto Act". The Act deprived the Asian…
BiographyMary Eveline Fincken
… Fincken was one of the first staff members of the South African College of Music. When the college was incorporated into the South African College …
BiographyEphraim Mojalefa Ngatane
… work epitomizes the period where the first professional African Artists, mainly concerned with the social conditions … missionary of St Peter's College in…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
… Palacios (1992-1994) Taking Bafana Bafana to the 1994 African Cup of Nations and the 1994 World Cup proved to be … Bafana at home, when SA hosted the 2013…
Communist Party calls on Location Residents to support AII-African Convention for Better Conditions", South African Worker, 26 September 1936
… Communist Party calls on Location Residents to support AII-African Convention for Better Conditions", South African Worker, 26 September 1936 …
BiographySuliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie
… and played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for participation in … played an active role in the Evaton…
ArchiveAfrican market
… Black and white poster. Detailed artwork of an African market. Small branch of yellow branch and purple … African market …
African shield
… White poster with red border. Artwork of a red and black African shield with a black spear and a yellow and black … African shield …
BiographyLettie Malindi
… family later migrated to Cape Town. Matibi had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912 when it was formed, … disabled in Maitland , and became a…
BiographyKenneth Alexander
… Kenneth Alexander was born on the 24th June 1955, in a garage in Limerick rd, Athlone. His parents were …
BiographyFrans Ramaro
… and his cousin Morris Ranoto were banished on19 January 1955 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern …
BiographyWilliam Mtsologane
… the Supreme Court rejected another order of 19 December 1955, which banished him from Rustenburg to Vryburg, …