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ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.58 No.40 Oct 1960
ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.58 No.46 Nov 1960
ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.58 No.45 Nov 1960
ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.58 No.44 Nov 1960
ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.58 No.43 Nov 1960
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her Standard Six primary…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s
Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden. This research…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… This in turn drew fierce anger from politicians. In the 1960s there were direct confrontation between government and … but withdraw its membership due to…
BiographyBertram Dumbleton
Bertram Dumbleton was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic Julian in Paris. During his…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
ArchiveThe African National Congress in exile: strategy and tactics 1960-1993
A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… people in South Africa. However, in the 1950s and early 1960s the South African government reinforced repressive … the struggle for freedom and equality. In…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Stanford University, 1977. Women's resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath ↵ Sharpeville Massacre. … Archive / african.pictures As the 1950s…
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East London…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
Richard Victor Selope Thema was born in Ga-Mamabolo, Pietersburg district, in 1886. Both his parents were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese…
Politics and Class in the Cape Province during the 1920s
Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984
ArchiveUnemployment in South Africa: dilemmas and challenges for the 1990s
ArchiveViolence in South Africa: on the increase in the 1990s
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
Michael Sedgwick was born on the 20th February 1958 in Claremont in the Western Cape. He grew up in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats. His school career started…
BiographyWilliam H. "Bill" Andrews
William H."Bill" Andrews was born in Suffolk, England, on 20 March in 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13 years old,he immigrated…
Esdras Lusiba Ntloko
Early life and the 1976 uprisingLusiba Esdras Ntloko was born on 18 July 1954 in Queenstown (now Komani) in the Eastern Cape. He became active in student…
BiographyAnton Ndoda Xaba
David Anton Ndoda ‘Mfenendala’ Xaba was born in Sobantu Village in Pietermaritzburg. He left school in the late 1940s and went to work in Durban. He joined…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… be broken, however, by the Group Areas Act of the 1960s. The couple bought a home in Clare Estate, Durban, …
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 1960
Minutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 31 Oct to 3 Nov 1960. Discussed were minutes of previous national conference, resolutions,…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… The relationship between the ANC and the SACP in the 1960s was not always a close one. In fact after 1962 Nelson … the same forms of suppression and…