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BiographyArthur William Blaxall
… Trusted as a friend, he received money in the early 1960s from exiled ANC and PAC leaders and passed it on to former … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas…
BiographyLeslie Massina
… of the accused for the full length of the Treason Trial , from 1956 to 1961.He was banned after 1957 and he left South … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas…
BiographyBarend Jacobus Du Plessis
… as administrative secretary. Following his resignation from the SABC in 1968 he joined the international computer …
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… Cape ANC in a disputed election. He was subject to bans from 1954 into the 1960s and was detained during the 1960 …
BiographyAlbert Nzula
… Nzula's capacities as a leader, and in 1930 he was shifted from the CPSA secretaryship to run the Federation of … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… played an active part in the African National Congress from the time the Nationalist government came to power in … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis…
BiographyChris van Wyk
… eldest of six children, he was fascinated by literature from a very young age. van Wyk rose to fame in the 1970s for … Between South African and Other…
BiographyBee Berman
… designer and actress at The Space Theatre in Cape Town. From 1980, she worked as a theatre and news freelance …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1972
… year has also been one of encouragement and inspiration from inside our country. It has further given proof of the … than the notorious Swanepoel has let it…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1974
… usurpers and colonisers; and later to secure their freedom from domination and oppression by a white minority regime. … in that world - it is the issue which…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… of seven Art SA Today exhibitions took place biennially, from 1963 to 1975. The exhibitions followed other integrated … Association of Arts, further…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… October Friday night, he said he and Timol were driving from Coronationville to Fordsburg, with Timol as a passenger, … vehicle he was then taken to what was…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… was a Kinetophone. 1896 Carl Hertz brought out a projector from England and screened the first production at the Empire … established. SABC commenced test…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
… was Orange Free State provincial ANC president from 1912 into the late 1920s.In May 1913 he was in a … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele…
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
… Organisation (PEBCO) in 1984, soon after their release from Robben Island. Through PEBCO Ngoyi and his comrades took … (2007), ANC mourns the death of…
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
… Sibande was hounded by the authorities and deported from Bethal in 1953. He was charged with treason in 1956, at … From Protest to Challenge, Political…
BiographyNombuso Mchunu
… security branch for questioning. In 1979 she resigned from her work in the union and in 1980 she went to work for …
BiographyBarry “Anderson” Richards
… played in four tests before South Africa was banned from competing in international matches in 1970. In his short …
Diana (Di) Bishop
… in tracking down missing persons, who had disappeared from squatter camps. In 1981, after she and a friend were …
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… to Weltevreden near the present village of Koppies, and from there to Rietfontein in the Heidelberg district … on 28 December 1912. The following year he…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
… in Johannesburg, where he lived with a relative. From 1973 Mayekiso was in and out of jobs, until Toyota … Mawu in May 1986 and, two months later, after his…
BiographyChris McGregor
… Subsequently, he established a vocal group with friends from uMthatha high school. All the exposure in uMthatha and … College of Music as he felt constrained…
BiographyStanley Mabizela
… reflected back to the event that led to his expulsion from the University of Fort Hare; “And I was expelled. You … with us at Fort Hare at that time.... And…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… at the end of the war, and, with financial backing from Silas Molema, chief of the Barolong, he established the … editorship, for six or seven years, after…
BiographyGisele Wulfsohn
… Lincoln to research, write and photograph Bongani's Day: From Dusk to Dawn in a South African City - part of an … Africa’s first democratic elections , 1995…
PlaceGallery 101
… the gallery, whilst works by Robert Hodgins , tapestries from Rorke’s Drift , Edoardo Villa , Daniel Rakgoathe , Tommy … Some of its artistic aspects, which…
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… a former economic advisor to ex-Prime Minister John Vorster. On 8 May 1979, the recommendations of the Riekert … Political History: a chronology of key…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… The uprising of 1976-77 marked a watershed in political relations between the … that white minority rule, shaken, but still secure in 1976-77, would begin to…
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… before the service went nationwide at the beginning of 1976. "The reason for television's late arrival in South … or Nats) was the governing party of South…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… (NEC) and it occurred in two stages. In the first stage, from late 1978, sections of the ANC leadership made concerted … the Strategic Review A number of…