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ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… it expanded its workforce considerably. By the mid-1950s, ESCOM had 13,000 employees. Many of these salaried …
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his father, Mdabuli Albert…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
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]…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… urban settlement in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s. The Western Areas was also the centre of political … 1934, from 12 000 to 24 000, and again to…
Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 by H. J. and R. E. SIMONS
ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.48 No.44 Nov 1950 Special Diwali Issue
Document 18 - Letter from C. I. R. Fortein to John Gomas, 29 April 1950
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in the 1950s. She was one of the organizers of the historic …
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
Dr Arthur David (Kin) Bensusan was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College,…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later enrolled for a…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… activist released at this time and active in NEUM in the 1950s and 1960s was Neville Alexander. This was at the height …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… Pieterse and a whole group of young minds in the late 1950s, for example, were significantly in advance of much of …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… the earliest gender perspectives and critique within 1950s black journalism (Guldimann, 1997). Head became …
”Report on the National Day of Protest, June 26, 1950.” Issued by the Secretary-General of the ANC and initialed by Nelson R. Mandela, June 26, 1950
BiographyEphraim Mojalefa Ngatane
Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
Introduction Part One - South African Socialists and the radically-divided working class Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in South Africa", 1907 …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… formally charged. Xuma was never arrested or banned in the 1950s, but the South African security police occasionally …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… given chiefs immense political influence. The 1940s and 1950s were therefore marked by increased frustration on the …
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
"Never before in the history of South Africa have the national leaders acted so swiftly and with complete oneness of purpose in their determination to beat…
Dr James Moroka Address at the Opening SAIC Conference, 16 September 1950
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, focusing on the work of one artist … that was no luxury, since “it was not…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development…
Letter to Defence and Aid Fund for the Rivonia Trial, from Richard Gill, 1960s
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… Settlement came from Boipatong Township established in the 1950s. With the apartheid government not providing new houses …