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ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Timeline 1944-2011
… African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Timeline …
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…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… the organisation as a liberation movement in favour of the African National Congress (ANC) as the only representative of … from the Non-Aligned Movement, the…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… amongst the Maasai, where he worked as a clerk for an Asian contractor. It was around this time that he took to … a well educated and respected Kikuyu, had…
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 …
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… and Anthropology. Project: Women Participation in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of … because of this passion. She has a…
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…
BiographyVesta Smith
… Smith was eighteen years old. She became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and worked closely with … Walter Sisulu . As an ANC volunteer,…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following his … his job to take up full time employment…
BiographyWilliam Mtsologane
… the Supreme Court rejected another order of 19 December 1955, which banished him from Rustenburg to Vryburg, …
BiographyMfoloe Ramokgadi
… was revoked on 14 May 1952. An order dated 19 December 1955 banishing him from Rustenburg to Vryburg, Western …
BiographyAbel Mabe
… was revoked on 14 May 1952. Another order of 19 December 1955, which banished him from Rustenburg to Vryburg in the …
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
… non-practioners to join as lay members, the South African Society of Artists made a major contribution to the … The South African Society of Artists and its…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… the international working classes. Historically, the South African Communist Party (SACP) has organised protests, … Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… Advocate J. G. Strijdom dies. It was during his tenure in 1955 in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the Freedom Charter, which embraced the ideological…
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
… we can produce indigenous stories that are uniquely South African. Our narrative is primarily dictated by foreign … What are the challenges that face the…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
… a career as a trainer and later as a boxing writer. In 1955, he moved to Dube Village, Soweto where he set about … boxing - is a legend who became the first…
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
… unionist and was later a founding member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). He was also one of … people for the adoption of the Freedom…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
… unionist and was later a founding member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). He was also one of … people for the adoption of the Freedom…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
… from the 1952 Defiance Campaign and joined the African National Congress (ANC) . She came into contact with … of the People, which adopted the Freedom…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project
… South African History Online hosts “virtual internships” with … Meghan Healy-Clancy, Assistant Professor of History and African Studies Program Coordinator…
BiographyOliver Kgadime Matsepe
… also attending confirmation classes at Botshabelo. In 1955 he completed his secondary education when he …
BiographyTom Lebekoe
… was revoked on 14 May 1952. Another order of 19 December 1955, which banished him from Rustenburg to Vryburg, Western …
BiographyMartinus Boshomane
… District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] on 19 January 1955. He professed to be extremely puzzled by his banishment …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… 1953, after finishing his Ph.D. was as a chemist for African Film Productions. Ronnie was appointed as a plant … of the Witwatersrand. It lasted from…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… both the workers and the mining companies. The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months … the strike had become the longest and most…
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… and others, he forged close relations with the local African National Congress (ANC) branch, led by Archie Gumede … was used regularly for meetings by the…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
… the ranks, ultimately becoming the Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s. Together with … to earning two diplomas in music. A…