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Paul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in Durban in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to…
BiographyJudus Mahlangu
Judus Mahlangu was born on 14 January 1951 in Brakpan, Transvaal. Mahlangu matriculated at KwaPhakama High School in Springs in 1969 where he first studied art…
BiographyVivienne Ncakeni
Vivienne Ncakeni was born in Brakpan, she was educated in the Transvaal and Natal and trained as a teacher. She returned to Brakpan to teach in the late 1930s…
BiographyBarney Simon
Barney Simon, South African theatre director (born April 13, 1932, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
BiographyMalcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti
… Island he circumcised 361 men. However, in the early 1980s, after circumcising a diabetic Swazi man who starting …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… following the Soweto uprising in the later 1970s and 1980s were carried out mainly by members of the June 16 … the imagination of South African youth…
BiographyJanub Gool
Janub Gool, also known as 'Jane', was a founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the…
BiographyDr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's…
”Stand Fast!”, flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
uMkhonto weSizwe flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation (June 1956), Nelson…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… declaration of a State of Emergency throughout the early 1980s meant that the UDF was virtually banned in 1988 and …
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
Selloane Ethel Leisa was born on 22* February 1914 in Ga-Marishane, Northern Transvaal, (now Limpopo Province). Upon completing her schooling, she moved to…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…
Sash Volume 22 Number 2 August 1980
Staffrider Vol.3 No.4 Dec-Jan 1980
Contents and Contributors The Cane is Singing by Narain Aiyer, A Normal Day by Kenny T. Hurtz, My Dear Madam by Nokugcina Sigwili, Poor Business for the…
Staffrider Vol.3 No.3 Sep-Oct 1980
Contents and Contributors Poetry: Mafika Gwala, Nkos'omzi Ngcukana, Ellinor Joosten, Roy Joseph Cotton, Mogambery Isaac, benjlanga, Chirwa P. Chipeya, Morena…