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BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… the Kilnerton Training Institute, a Methodist School for African children living near Johannesburg. Kilnerton Training … along with his kinsmen, Makgatho may…
ArchiveTowards a school for PHC personnel at Alex Clinic and the Institute for Urban PHC
… for PHC personnel at Alex Clinic and the Institute for Urban PHC …
Sir Benjamin D’Urban assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
… Sir Benjamin D’Urban assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. …
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… of Black Consciousness, and became active in the South African Students Organisation (SASO) regional secretary in … under the Suppression of Communism Act…
BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
… of the Wilderness and Knysna coastlines resulted in these areas being colloquially referred to as "Wiles country". In … of the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII…
BiographyEthel Walt
… the then Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Her family relocated to Yeoville, Johannesburg, Transvaal … a comfortable life afforded to middle-class…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement
… the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement. They included two districts in … the opening of four hitherto Whites-only…
BiographyEzrom Legae
… one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under one roof. During the 1950’s, it became the cradle of the first professional African…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December … the period after 1930, including the CPSA-inspired African Federation of…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… became ill with cancer and someone had to take over the family’s men’s outfitting business. David undertook the … access to the mining operations of the most…
BiographyPeter Clarke
… Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother … Town had become an ‘affected area’…
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
… play a crucial role in the liberation struggle, aiding the African National Congress (ANC) from her home (which would … to the struggle to varying degrees…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… Benjamin D'Urban was born in Suffolk, England and joined the British … as well as British Guiana in 1831. On 16 January 1834, D'Urban assumed office as…
Former President John Vorster says he has decided to withdraw from politics for family reasons.
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political … Vorster says he has decided to withdraw…
ArchiveSome thoughts on housing in South Africa: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1975
… Some thoughts on housing in South Africa: Paper presented at the Black Sash …
Darkey Ephraim Africa, political activist and MEC Local Government, Housing & Development, North West Government since 1994
… Africa, political activist and MEC Local Government, Housing & Development, North West Government since 1994 …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up. Most of his … on several committees of the National Union…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Trade Unions (Transvaal) (CNETU). Formation of the African Mine Workers Union. Food and Canning workers Union is formed. 1946 August, African Mine Workers…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… on 21 March 1960. Political movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist … detention, Monty Berman, a former member of the…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… injustice. Due to the Group Areas Act , Govender and her family were forced to move to Durban’s flatlands where the … Women’s Committee. Govender would…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… Mission and began a line of Christian believers in his family. Nokukhanya recalled that her parents were eager to … John Dube , founding member and first…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… Nora and Ganese Govender. When he was a year old, the family moved, first to Umzinto and then to Port Shepstone, … was drawn to those who suffered most under…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
… Boards Congress in Durban , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives' … in 1937. In 1939 he was on the deputation of the…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black … trade union movements…
The schools’ boycott spreads to universities and to rural areas and the ‘homelands’.
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political … The schools’ boycott spreads to…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… The 1946 mine workers' strike was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president was J.B.Marks, he was also a leader in the South African Communist…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… was disrupted by an outbreak of typhoid fever in 1916. The family then moved towards the Glen Grey District (present day … colonial sources could be…
ArchiveEconomic restructuring in post-apartheid South Africa: the role of local government rural and urban development
… Discussion paper prepared for a seminar between the African National Congress Department of Economics and Planning, Congress of South African Trade Unions…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
… rebellion of 1914; but unlike other members of his family, Kotze senior had not been a devout member of the … Mokitini. In 1964, Rev. Mokitini was elected…
BiographyCheryl Carolus
… 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was employed as a printer’s assistant and … as head prefect in matric. She was a…