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BiographyKewpie
… Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure from District Six . A gender fluid individual who identified … a hidden archive of local queer lives and…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
… to solitary confinement for years during the 1970s. Moved from one prison to the next, she endured some of the worst … eventually became so severe that she…
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
… and also later received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA). In the 1940s … 1951 and 1953 he also served as President of…
BiographyMary Thipe
… used the beer hall as a strategy to keep the men away from the struggle by enticing them with alcohol, therefore keeping them drunk and away from their wives…
BiographyPepsi Mahlangu
… by an unknown gunman in KwaThema, Springs on his return from exile in July 1991. …
BiographyBalelekeng Sam Masemola
… and helped to steer his branch in Alexandra Township away from 'hamba kahle' methods towards militant campaigning. He …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… the Editorial Board of the South African Labour Bulletin from 1976 to 2008 and was chair of the Board from 1978 to 2006. He worked at the University of Cape…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… the suspension of the South African Olympic Committee from the Olympic movement. In 1969 he graduated with an MSc … Council Arms Embargo Committee between…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
… , and 16 months after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, in the midst of South Africa’s transition to … people, so he had to sleep on a special…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… devout Catholic himself, Waterwitch experienced resistance from the Roman Catholic church leaders at the school when, … was inspired by the Sandinista…
Post-detention weapons
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of … began to be rekindled around 1968, peaking around 1976. The ideology of black consciousness…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… the youngster into a torch, causing life-threatening burns from just under his right ear down to his chest and his right … him on his face. He stumbled to…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… Congress (ANC) underground. Singh had just been released from Robben Island after serving eight years. Nyawose was … recruit among Swaziland’s notorious…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… family, classified as Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it … hundred and forty six delegates…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… in Soweto (ANC Women’s League, 2021), and matriculated from the Matatiele Boarding School. Motshekga later studied … Congress Women's League (ANCWL) in the…
BiographyMabunu Mkize
… hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, ”was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, …
BiographyMzinto Ngubane
… hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, “was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, … by Professor S. Badat, Rhodes University…
BiographyNkume Ngubane
… hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, “was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, … S. Badat, on Banishment, Rhodes…
BiographySolomon Madikizela
… Solomon Madikizela, from Amagutyana Location, Bizana District, [Eastern Province, … by Professor S. Badat, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten…
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
… the annual 9 Hour and 1000 km endurances races continuing from the circuits inception until 1988. Three official rounds … 500cc Motorcycle World Championship…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… and steered it through its period of activity, were drawn from the pre-war Trotskyist groupings. They tried to conceal … activity. Unless socialists can cut…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… passports in 1987 and 1988 to take up his scholarships. From 1971 to 1995 Farouk Asvat received numerous death threats from both the Security Police of the…
BiographyAmy Biehl
… She excelled academically and graduated as valedictorian from Sante Fe High School. She went on to study at Stanford …
BiographyMpush Makambi
… and later transferred to Zimbabwe. The PAC withdrew him from active service and he went to United States to further … jogging and was back to his old self…
BiographySarah Gertrude Holland
… to open a school nearby, where she taught rural children from the surrounding area of Ingogo, providing them with a … children were placed in Holland’s care…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… adopted on the eve of the seventies, in 1969. Yet by 1976, the author of this document, none other than Henry … this process of change. Speaking in Lusaka in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… adopted on the eve of the Seventies, in 1969. Yet by 1976, the author of this document, none other than Henry … this process of change. Speaking in Lusaka in…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… and of African Affairs, and is currently the Desmond Tutu Professor in the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the … on a specific topic, informed heavily by…
BiographyTlou Matlala
… Tlou Matlala was banished on 11 June 1952 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now … by Professor S. Badat, Rhodes University, 2012…
BiographyPhuti Matlala
… Phuti Matlala was banished on 7 March 1951 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern …