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Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of…
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who…
BiographySylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
Magwaza Alfred Maphalala was born on 6 April 1948 in Bergville, Ladysmith in Natal. He was an only son. Maphalala completed his schooling and matriculated in…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
Johnson Mlambo was born in Johannesburg on 22 February 1940. He did his secondary school education at Kilnerton. After completing his studies, he worked at…
BiographyLennox Sebe
Lennox Sebe was born on 26 June 1926. He completed his matric at the Lovedale College. Upon his completion he went to attend a teachers college. Sebe had a…
BiographyBenjamin S. Rajuili
Benjamin S. Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare,…
BiographyIssy Heymann
Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the twentieth century by Mahatma Gandhi. It was not…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris South African social scientists have severely neglected the…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac…
ArchiveContact 1963, Volume 6 No 11, 31 May 1963
ArchiveContact 1963, Volume 6 No 10, 17 May 1963
BiographyBarasarthi Naidoo
Barasarthi Naidoo, the eldest son of Thambi and Veerammal Naidoo, was born on 22 December 1903. At a farewell banquet for Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923 1 Two years have gone by since our last…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… children and waifs and strays' (Children's Protection Act, 1913). Within this dual system, the disciplinary regime of … pieces of legislation. The Children's…
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown…
BiographyVukile Ntuli
Ntuli was born in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his primary school education at the Ndaleni Practising School, Richmond, at the Ndaleni…
BiographySam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa …
BiographyMohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief. He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION On the second day of January 1920, seventy…
BiographyNdhlovu Msutu
The documentation related to Ndhlovu Msutu’s banishment noted that he was appointed Headman of Msutu’s Location, Peddie District, [Eastern Province, now…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… Panama Railroad Company and used as a cruise ship, and in 1913 she was sold to the Royal Mail Line who renamed her the …
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme was born in Durban on 15 March 1944 and his parents were Patricia and Francoise Virgile Bonhomme.He attended St Augustine’s Junior…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… freedom and individual liberty. Speaking in Kimberley in 1913,I referred to our position in straightforward, and as I …
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…
BiographySadie Forman
… and writer, emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa in 1913. In 1952, Forman married Lionel Forman , a young fellow …