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Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the…
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
Mali was once part of the Great Songhay Empire, but came under French rule in 1892. After almost seventy years of colonial rule, Mali was renamed the Sudanese…
Over 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
John Akii-bua, 400-metre hurdler who won Olympics-gold in 1972, is born in Uganda.
Restricted vision (Some comments on the 40 hour famine)
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thenjiwe Mswane
Dear Students Movements of 1976, Imagine if the 16th of June 2016, looked like this. Like this cold winters morning in Johannesburg, except across the…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… and improvisational. Black Music and Musicians of the 40s and 50s With the removal of the slumyards beginning in …
The SA rugby team beats Wales 40-11 in Johannesburg.
BiographyHymie Barsel
Born in 1920 Barsel worked as a clerk. During the 30s he was assaulted when taking part in demonstrations against the Blackshirt Movement. He was secretary of…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events witnessed at the country’s tertiary education institutions this year would have been very…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the…
The Star reports that construction workers have discovered a mass grave containing human bones and ammunition 400m from the for
Nigeria’s military government orders the immediate release of at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler Gen.
All-in African Conference (25-26 March) with 1,400 delegates from 145 religious, cultural, peasant, intellectual and political
Forty miners are trapped 2 400m underground after the earthquake at Stilfontein. One miner died and another is still missing.
Swedish Foreign Minister, on a visit to Cape Town, reveals that her government gave about $400m in humanitarian assistance to o
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… trade unionist campaign nationally during the 1930s and 40s failed, but he is credited with having united Black wage …
APDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
This pamphlet analysis and illustrates the results of the elections held in 1981, in which the government offered the SAIC to the Indian people. The liberatory…
1946-1986: 40 years of struggle for a living wage and conditions
Black and white poster showing living conditions of miners in 1946 and 1986.
Indian Opinion Vol.50 No.40 and No.41 Oct 1952
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
While he was being detained in jail in Port Elizabeth, Barney Pityana read in a newspaper about Stephen Biko’s death. Forty years later, he recalls the shock…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…