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BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs'kia [Ezekiel]…
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy affectionately known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a century. He…
BiographyKeable Mote
Keable Mote was born in 1898 in Leribe, Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers'…
BiographyBobby Hendricks
Hendricks was born in Caledon on 7 February 1936. He started his music career as a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). Later, he…
BiographyStephen Tefu
Stephen Tefu was born about 1910, he was recruited to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Pretoria at a time when the party was at a low ebb. Shortly…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban, and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…
BiographyHoward S. Ngcobo
Howard S. Ngcobo was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
BiographyBhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the…
Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
Stanley Basil Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
BiographyVictor Poto
Victor Poto was born in 1897 at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was installed as…
BiographySimon Tyeku
Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961. Tyeku was born in 1904 and…
BiographyNarainsamy Thumbi Naicker
Born 4 April 1922 in Pinetown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Attorney prominent in the South African Indian Congress. He was active in Natal politics as a…
BiographyBerney Perez
Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. He worked as an office machine technician while studying…
ArchiveLily White Rugby Football Club Images from 1900's - 1978
ArchiveWinter Rose Rugby Football Club Images from 1900 - 1986
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
BiographyDebi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in…
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the…
BiographyStanley Silwana
Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… heavy industry grew slowly in Russia, and by the early 1900s it had only established itself in a handful of cities …
BiographyEsther Franks
Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
IntroductionNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… and Ireland filled the region in search of gold. By the 1900s the British empires in Australia were already well …
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…