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| E-0071859 | event | Jan F.E. Celliers (Johannes Francois Elias, S.A. poet, writer and dramatist, is born. He died on 1 June 1940. | 6 Jan 2012 | ✓ |
| B-0007980 | biography | Edgar Arthur Deane | 1908 | ✓ |
| B-0008589 | biography | William “Bloke” Modisane | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008344 | biography | Hannah Lurie | – | – |
| B-0008988 | biography | Magdalena Gertruide Sauer | 1890-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0008511 | biography | Elizabeth Mbatha | 1950 | – |
| B-0008030 | biography | Jeremiah W Dunjwa | 1935 | – |
| B-0008650 | biography | Lionel Morrison | 1935-2016 | – |
| B-0009095 | biography | Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono | 1955 | ✓ |
| A-0059380 | article | Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) | 30 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0009028 | biography | Lucky Shabalala | 1962 | – |
| B-0008834 | biography | Caiphas Nxumalo | 1940-2002 | ✓ |
| A-0068669 | article | Right to Organise Timeline 1500-1994 | 17 Oct 2011 | – |
| B-0093746 | biography | Rashid Lombard | 1951-2025 | ✓ |
| B-0008184 | biography | Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson | 1924-1972 | ✓ |
| A-0125088 | article | Changing Perceptions of Nelson Mandela | 27 Jun 2018 | – |
| B-0099380 | biography | John Moshoeu | – | ✓ |
| A-0063099 | article | Zulu | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0086245 | article | Black Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation | 18 Jun 2012 | – |
| R-0095678 | archive | The Final Prize - Contents and Preface | 17 May 2013 | – |
| B-0008135 | biography | Thelma Gutsche | 1915-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0150418 | biography | Ashlatha Rambally | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0008541 | biography | Andrew Meintjes | 1955-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008802 | biography | Lawrence Nkosi | 1910 | ✓ |
| B-0067965 | biography | Conan Doyle Modiakgotla | – | – |
| B-0008485 | biography | Philemon Mathole | 1916 | – |
| R-0150634 | archive | J.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee | 4 Dec 2020 | – |
| B-0095282 | biography | Elias Mathope Motsoaledi | 1924-1994 | – |
| B-0007883 | biography | Diamond Bozas | 1923 | – |
| B-0008337 | biography | Eric Hendrik Louw | 1890-1968 | – |
Jan F.E. Celliers (Johannes Francois Elias, S.A. poet, writer and dramatist, is born. He died on 1 June 1940.
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a period on the Cape…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyHannah Lurie
She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London (1962-1965). She has held numerous solo…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South…
BiographyElizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
Lionel Morrison
Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono,…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… of Zulu kings. Buthelez's IFP The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked major changes for all Black South Africans. In …
BiographyLucky Shabalala
Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving heads. Shabalala…
BiographyCaiphas Nxumalo
Caiphas Nxumalo graduated from Rorke's Drift in 1971 and during the 1970s was a free-lance artist in Pomeroy. He uses indigenous woods for his sculpture and…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African…
BiographyRashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town,…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… in the African National Congress (ANC) ranks during the 1940s, Mandela was viewed as a major thorn in the side of the …
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly…
ArticleZulu
… the early twentieth century. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans, and …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… they avowedly supported Hitler. Their influence from the 1940s to the 1990s was as salient a part of the context of … strike was the seminal event of the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but received private…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her…
BiographyAndrew Meintjes
Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, he met photographer David Goldblatt…
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…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…
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…
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
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…