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BiographyGavin Jantjes
… structural oppression and discrimination lived in South Africa under the Afrikaner Nationalist Party. The sheet, … and the whole of Jantjes’ work was banned…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
… degree in theology in 1921. He returned to South Africa strongly affected by the Garveyist movement, and his … thinking and was closer to the Communist…
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One …
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… before the National Party (NP) came to power in South Africa. His early education took place in the … collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s. South…
BiographyGana Makabeni
… night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s. In 1926 he was …
BiographySally Gross
… into the treatment of the intersex community in South Africa. Gross was increasingly politically active. Her anti-apartheid stance led her away from South…
BiographyJonathan Neil Rhodes
… an interview. He forged a relationship with Epilepsy South Africa and publicised his own hardships. This brave step drew … to Kathryn Pahl, National Director…
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
… the authorities decreed that classes throughout South Africa were to be conducted in Afrikaans. With several of her … , of the long history of women's…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
… After a few years abroad, Motaung returned to South Africa and immediately started proceedings to form his own … Leadership Award by Henly Managenment…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… Nationalist party came to power, Gerard Sekoto left South Africa for Paris. He was employed as a pianist purely by …
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
… groups and campaigned for a sporting boycott of South Africa. In 1954 to 1963 Fihla worked as a cleaner at Barclays … a bachelor's degree through the…
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
… former townships and the marginalised communities of South Africa. He was educated at the University of the Western Cape … level, but was a leading cricket…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
… also obtained his BA degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) while furthering his medical studies. During … of the United Nations Organisation,…
EventAfrican’s Claim is presented at the conference
… in Bloemfontein, the document the African's Claim in South Africa, presented by the Atlantic Charter committee which was … Xuma, A,(1943), Africans' Claims…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… community of Woodstock, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. His father, a factory worker, was active in the … War and, most critically, the question of …
BiographyRandolph Hartzenberg
… however in reality and especially in the context of South Africa, most people are excluded. Hartzenberg has exhibited … Breadline/Waterline, Cape Town and…
BiographyMagnus Malan
… viewed domestic and foreign threats to white rule in South Africa as a “total onslaught” that could only be answered … activists, David Webster and Anton…
BiographyClements Kadalie
… 1918 after a journey which him through most of Southern Africa countries arrived and settled at Cape Town. He … renamed the Industrial and Commercial Workers…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
… for public venues in Johannesburg and elsewhere in South Africa, soon followed by locations in Europe and the United … Mahlangu’s work is featured in…
BiographyRegina Buthelezi
… represented in public and private art collections in South Africa and abroad. …
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
… of times. Gradually he came under the impression that Africa was changing and that the culture of his people would … of Four Paths: The Story of a Strange…
BiographyMary Moodley
… She joined the Garment and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa (GAWU) and mobilided her fellow colleagues to join the … ‘Number 2 Branch’ of the Garment…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… Yet the twenty-one years that Gandhi spent in South Africa were critical in the ‘Making of the Mahatma’. The … Colonial Natal in the 1890s Indians arrived in…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … upon whose broad shoulders so much of the wealth of South Africa has been built,…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Football, like other sporting disciplines in South Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South African … the White body of the Football Association of…
BiographyStanley Silwana
… first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 … A documentary History of African…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
… on trial. Pius Langa would later go on to become South Africa’s Chief Justice. Martins and two other MK members, … training at MK bases in Angola before…
ArchiveInternational Press Conference by the Honourable P W Botha, Prime Minister of the RSA on the talks between the Five Western Powers and the RSA Government regarding South West Africa
… Western Powers and the RSA Government regarding South West Africa …
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… a regional organiser of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA). He held the position for few months and quit … Committee of the Media Workers…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… there in 1964. Olive joined the Teachers League of South Africa as soon as she qualified as a teacher. While attending … were revoked and they immediately…