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| B-0008802 | biography | Lawrence Nkosi | 1910 | ✓ |
| B-0008485 | biography | Philemon Mathole | 1916 | – |
| A-0059687 | article | Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU) | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0016643 | article | State policies and social protest, 1924-1939 | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0095282 | biography | Elias Mathope Motsoaledi | 1924-1994 | – |
| B-0007883 | biography | Diamond Bozas | 1923 | – |
| B-0008337 | biography | Eric Hendrik Louw | 1890-1968 | – |
| B-0009022 | biography | Sam P. Sesedi | 1895-1960 | – |
| B-0068114 | biography | John S. P. Motloheloa | – | – |
| A-0087607 | article | Boipatong massacre - 17 June 1992 | 5 Jul 2012 | – |
| B-0008152 | biography | Bobby Hendricks | 1936-1999 | – |
| B-0068545 | biography | Stephen Tefu | 1910 | – |
| B-0009053 | biography | A. J. Sililo | – | – |
| B-0068238 | biography | Howard S. Ngcobo | 1923-1960 | ✓ |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008506 | biography | Rafique (Rafs) Mayet | 1955 | – |
| B-0008833 | biography | Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0009031 | biography | Dorothy Shanley | 1920-2001 | – |
| B-0009175 | biography | Simon Tyeku | 1904 | – |
| B-0068193 | biography | Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker | 1922-2003 | – |
| B-0093702 | biography | Berney Perez | 1948 | – |
| B-0141662 | biography | Stanley Basil Lollan | 1925-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0009064 | biography | Debi Singh | 1913-1970 | ✓ |
| B-0098638 | biography | Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa | 1941-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0007831 | biography | Hymie Barsel | 1920 | – |
| B-0008083 | biography | Esther Franks | 1900 | – |
| B-0009173 | biography | Henry Daniel Tyamzashe | 1880 | – |
| B-0008504 | biography | C. J. Mayekiso | 1913-1969 | – |
| A-0068708 | article | Zulu Community | 18 Oct 2011 | – |
| R-0095591 | archive | Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari | 6 May 2013 | – |
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… of the WEAU with bored but stubborn indifference. By the 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… several splits and fusions. Economically the late 1920s and early 1930s were difficult years. There was a … to tighten control of Black workers by passing…
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the…
BiographyDiamond Bozas
Diamond Bozas was born at Isipingo. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London. He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts…
BiographyEric Hendrik Louw
Louw was a politician and a diplomat. During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in…
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…
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]…
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…
BiographyDorothy Shanley
Dorothy Shanley was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest and trial of Dorothy…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyHymie Barsel
Born in 1920 Barsel worked as a clerk. During the 30s he was assaulted when taking part in demonstrations against the Blackshirt Movement. He was secretary of…
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…
Zulu Community
… as land was expropriated and enclosed. Therefore the 1920s saw fundamental changes in the Zulu nation. Many were … workers in Natal in the early twentieth…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… of black politics shows that the latter half of the 1920s was a high point in black resistance. Both the … trade union movement, which had been growing…