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BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member…
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
Philip Vundla was born in 1901 and attended Healdtown for some years before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of 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…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh was born in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her…
ArchiveThe politics of nonracialism: White opposition to apartheid, 1945-1960
Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This thesis is concerned with the development…
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
Hettie Du Preez
Hettie du Preez has made an outstanding contribution to the struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a prominent figure in…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
ArchiveUniversals Rugby Football Club 1960 - 1982
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… family was later dispossessed of the house and farm in the 1960s under the Group Areas Act , making way for the township …
BiographyRichard S. Canca
Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from…
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… stiffening of Apartheid in the late 1950s and early in the 1960s. In some cases it is their experiences reflected in …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… “non-racial” from the recently-formed PAC in the early 1960s. The ANC-PAC schism radically transformed the … of this picture held true for Durban before the…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who…
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