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BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
… family moved to Kliptown, south of Johannesburg in 1947. The family remained in Kliptown for five years. In 1952 … local authorities at the time. Tshiawelo…
BiographyDenis Mayer
… Sailor Malan, protesting the removal of Coloured South Africans from the Voter’s Roll . Mayer travelled outside of …
BiographySaul Msane
… Natal Native Congress (NNC), which aimed at educating the Africans about their rights and acted as a forum for …
BiographySarah Carneson
… tailor and, unusually for the time, employed Coloured and Africans along with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in …
BiographyBilly Paddock
… to Europe, designed to highlight the plight of South Africans and the urgent need for the world to apply pressure …
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… be returned Improved educational opportunities for Black Africans The repeal of hut and poll taxes Representation for Black Africans in the Legislative…
ArchiveAziz Pahad: the unassuming South African diplomat who skilfully mediated crises in Africa, and beyond by Professor Anthoni van Nieuwkerk
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… their marriage due to the political restrictions placed on Africans in cities during this time. Moreover, Nokukhanya … publically burned his pass in Pretoria…
BiographyKerr Alexander
… level, Kerr's wife Mary Robertson Kerr died on 19 November 1947, leaving two sons, William Findlay and Alastair James. A … on the Carr-Saunders Commission on…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… and pressing for a larger and more responsible role for Africans, within the Anglican Church.He was influencial in …
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… was hidden behind the benefits bestowed on white South Africans. It was by leaving the country that he realized that …
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… born editor of the Cape Times and among the first South Africans to edit any of the country's major English language …
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
… in Tanzania. He took up several teaching posts in other Africans countries ”” Kenya, Botswana and Zambia. When …
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… together with Dr. Dadoo and Joe Slovo were the first non-Africans to be elected on to the ANC’s National Executive …
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… for the empowerment of women, children, and Black South Africans. …
BiographyEthel Walt
… herself wholly to the fight for human rights for all South Africans, remaining resolute in her belief that an equal …
BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
… He stated in brief that, 'We are Namibians, and not South Africans. We do not now, and will not in the future, …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… despite the many challenges we face and when many South Africans continue to endure much hardship. Notwithstanding … encouraged and inspired by the…
ArchiveReview of Kora: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep (Unisa Press), by June Bam-Hutchison (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town)
There have always been general assumptions that the KhoeSan people (‘Khoe’ is the correct spelling) are extinct and that their languages at the Cape died out…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… and limit the rights of Black, Coloured and Indian South Africans. Most importantly, these Acts, in combination with … and physical liberation was the duty…
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, South African white arrested in blasts, by Alan Cowell, New York Times, 10 March 1986
Sing Me a Song of History: South African Poets and Singers in Exile, 1900–1990 by Marian De Saxe, University of Sydney (2010)
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… in his life that started by befriending his fellow South Africans, Mohambry Gangathura 'Monty' Naicker and … the ANC and CPSA At the end of 1946 and the…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
… Thus, Sara was used to help emphasise the stereotype that Africans were oversexed and a lesser race. Sara Baartman died …
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… poetry the political and social aspirations of black South Africans in the 1920s, and their bitter frustrations. …
BiographyMoses Josiah Madiba
… training college, Madiba became lecturer and warden in 1947. While warden, he introduced hostel committees … Secondary School. In 1957 Madiba was one of the…
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
… Republic that not only restricted the movement of Africans, but enforced the carrying of a pass, and levied a …
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
… the people behind the signing of the “ Doctors’ Pact ” of 1947 between Dr AB Xuma of the African National Congress … this Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… of 1913, a measure that drastically curtailed the right of Africans to own or occupy land throughout the Union. In 1914 …
BiographyGisele Wulfsohn
… Campaign, she compiled a series of portraits of 31 South Africans who had publicly disclosed their HIV status. Her …