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BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and…
BiographyEzrom Legae
Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata Legae was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1938. He attended school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
Abdulla Ismail Kajee was born about 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… rights of Black people in South Africa. However, in the 1950s and early 1960s the South African government reinforced …
BiographySheila Weinberg
Sheila Weinberg was born in Johannesburg on 1 October 1945, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the South African…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s. What was seen as backward and uneconomic …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.3 1950
Albert van de Sandt Centlivres (79), chief justice of SA (1950-1957), dies.
ArticleThe missionaries
… of many Black women and men of South Africa in the early 1950s and 1960s, and naturally played a key role in mission …
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…
The Peoples's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble
BiographyDawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England. In the 1950s, Indians from all over Durban were moved to Chatsworth … houses replaced the poor settlements and by…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…
BiographyFrank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM)…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… health sectors. The Job Reservation laws passed in the mid-1950s protected most of the skilled jobs for Whites and …
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew - Introduction
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… laid down the foundation for the ANC’s campaigns in the 1950s. At the same time, rapid migration into urban areas … the passing of various racially…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… were particularly prominent in these campaigns. In the 1950s there was no distinct youth resistance to developments …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… responses to developments in the 1930s through to the 1950s that either strengthened their claim as ‘the … The effects of this were only felt fully during…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities … apartheid. He became Native Affairs…
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and his mother Eliza, an…