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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…
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. …
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
… From 1986 to 1990 she served as the legal advisor to the African National Congress (ANC) Legal and Constitutional … Technology and in 2003, she was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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’…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
… into one umbrella civic organisation, the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee (CAHAC). CAHAC was one of the … sought after by the Security Police as well as…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
A literacy Museum in the House where two famous, Afrikaans poets and writer brothers, N.P van Wyk Louw and W.E.G. Louw, were born. There are very Interesting…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… is documented about his early life, but like many young African men of his generation, Mkhize would have grown up in … of what would become formal apartheid…