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ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.56 No.41 Oct 1958
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ArchiveHead Office Reports: Report of General Secretary to NSA - 56th NUSAS Congress 1978
Report from the Head Office of the National Union of South African Students to the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union, University of Cape Town,…
BiographyFrances Baard
Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape. She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…
PlaceTerrace houses, 46, 48 and 56 Barnet Street, Gardens
The three double-storey units form an integral part of a row of similar late-19th century terraced houses with fine Georgian and Victorian architectural…
Thomas William Bowler (56), SA painter, dies in London.
BiographyViolet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg. She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the…
BiographyNzimeni Elliot Mfaxa
Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa was born August 26, 1926 at KwaGusha Farm in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually took up work as a…
Sir Henry Bale (56), chief justice of Natal, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her early childhood. She attended the Thokoza Primary School and then…
BiographyElias Phakane Moretsele
Little is known about Elias Moretsele's youth. At an early age he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC,…
Winnie Mandela, former wife of President Mandela, is overwhelmingly re-elected as president of the ANC’s Women’s League by 656
Jonathan Ayliff (56), Cape attorney, politician and colonial secretary, dies in London.
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…
BiographyMotsamai Keyecwe Mpho
Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho was born to a peasant family in Maun Bechuanaland (now Botswana) on 3 February 1921. His family came from a non-Setswana-speaking ethnic…
BiographyRica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general election.
South Africa concedes that almost two million Black people have been relocated since 1960, but maintains that only 456,860 were
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave him up for adoption when he was nine…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…
BiographySarah Carneson
Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was…
BiographyIshwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba
Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba was born on 5 November 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa where he was also raised. His parents emigrated to…
BiographyErnest Methuen Mancoba
Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a teacher at the…
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