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BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Gastrow, S. (1992) Who`s Who in South African politics Number 4.p.67. If you would…
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…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of the influx control provisions of the 1923 Act in the 1920s. As time passed, the Act was amended to regularise its … townships of Brixton, Newlands, and…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
Marimuthu Pragalathan Naiker, journalist and politician born in Durban in 1920, dies in an aeroplane during a flight between Lo
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… that helped foster growing African nationalism in early 1920s . Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) was …
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… IFP is based on a Zulu cultural organisation formed in the 1920s, originally only called Inkatha. The Zulu word means …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk was born in Vredendal, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… between people of different ethnicities. During the 1920s, Afrikaner nationalism was gaining momentum and was …
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle,…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… of shack settlements throughout the peninsula in the 1920s in places such as Woodstock, Maitland, Windemere and …
Testimony of the Rev. Z. R. Mahabane, President, Cape Province Native Congress, before the Select Committee on Native Affairs, June 15, 1920
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
BiographyChris Qwazi
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the…
BiographyJohn Collins
John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…
EventHistory of December 16
… in 1952 it became the ‘Day of the Covenant’. Since the 1920s, the day was also used by the African National … Minister Hertzog. Thus, 16 December,…