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Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Teachers and learners should note that there are many links on this site which deal with the depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
… the latter's meeting with J. B. M. Hertzog . In the late 1920s, he was a member of the ANC national executive …
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
Cornelius Judah Fazzie was born in 1924 Queenstown Eastern Cape,but grew up largely in Tsolo.His migrant father worked in the Western Cape.He began school at…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
… time in India. He became politically active in the mid-1920s and emerged as the leading figure in 1935 when orthodox …
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
… of the Transvaal ANC executive committee from the late 1920s, Tantsi became official Transvaal chaplain in about …
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
… Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in Nylstroom, now known as …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC,…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… to veto the denial of Coloured franchise rights. In the 1920s and 1930s he led a rearguard action against state … a united black political front. In the…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… when he was 17 and found work in a factory in the 1920s. he enrolled in classes at a Communist-run night …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976,…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
Please note that this section is detailed and we have broken it up into 3 pages: Use the page navigation on the right or bottom of the page Introduction …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
The 1970s period was a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
… was forced to go and look for work in Johannesburg in the 1920s. In November 1930 together with her sister Hester, they …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
1920 The Housing Act is passed. This Act made funds available for the government to house the poor. “The resultant estates were required to be racially…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline and struggling to avert state repression. Congress-inspired traditions were also re…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
The Liberation Struggle documents: 1990s
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… in Ladybrand, Ramakaba migrated to Cape Town, in the early 1920s, where he found employment as a labourer at a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… of 1936:The Bills proposed by General Barry Hertzog in the 1920s finally got the two-thirds majority required to be …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of…
BiographyRebecca Bunting
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic who came to …
Ruth Alexander
… hosted a literary and artist salon at her home. From the 1920s on, Ruth Alexander began writing book reviews and …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
1920 - 1929 1921 February, Gandhi: Second week, (Bardoli). Five days' fast in connection with Chauri Chaura incident. November 9-13, Gandhi: (Bombay)…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
… a strong branch of the ANC in Cape Town, and by the late 1920s, aided by the Communist-backed activists Elliot Tonjeni …