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Ida Fiyo Mntwana
… Executive Committee (ANC) Executive Committee during the 1950s, and in 1954 was also elected as National president of … 1956. She led the women’s anti-pass…
The president of Burundian transitional government, Domitien Ndayizeye, and representatives of the three main political parties
… Domitien Ndayizeye, and representatives of the three main political parties …
Hannah Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg.
… Hannah Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg. …
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… the most notable period of Norton's editorship was the 1950s, when the Cape Times threw itself into the battle … Burger began the practice of printing each…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
… the African Iron and Steel Workers’ Union. By the early 1950s she was an active trade unionist and shop steward for … against the extension of passes to…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
… Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited … in New Brighton location in Port…
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
… few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South … Coloured People's Organisation in…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… (ANC) branch in Orlando township, Johannesburg. In the mid 1950s, by which time the ZCA and the ZBA had faded ,Madiba … in the Zeeruat distric,where passes…
Anti-apartheid writer Nadine Gordimer dies by Shaun de Waal(Main & Guardian),14 July 2014,South Africa
… Anti-apartheid writer Nadine Gordimer dies by Shaun de Waal(Main & Guardian),14 July 2014,South Africa …
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
… marabi and kwela are the most important. Founded in the 1950s, mbaqanga soon took on a political dimension. Zakes … recorded an album titled Our Kind of Jazz…
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
… During the ANC boycott of Bantu Education schools in the 1950s, he played a leading part in efforts to organise … Provincial Secretary of the ANC, in the…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
… two former friends remained at odds throughout most of the 1950s. At home with neither the left nor the extreme nationalist wings of the ANC, Ngubane in the…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
… towards the coast in the Eastern Cape. As a young man in 1950s, he worked for a few years as a migrant worker on the … (MK).He recruited President Jacob Zuma…
The Sudanese government signs a temporary cease-fire with Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA
… government signs a temporary cease-fire with Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA …
South African Parliament passes a bill establishing the Transitional Executive Council, whose main purpose is to ensure free an
… establishing the Transitional Executive Council, whose main purpose is to ensure free an …
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, … then worked as a teacher until 1949. In the…
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa's defence policy. The paranoia that … reports to the Senate on the Arms…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
… (from which the Ladysmith group took its name). In the mid-1950s, Nkabinde established himself to the EMI Studios and … vocals for Nkabinde and five other…
A meeting between the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na
… Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na …
A meeting between the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na
… Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na …
The Sudanese government suspends peace talks with the country’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, or SPL
… government suspends peace talks with the country’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, or …
The Ground-nut Advisory Committee, consisting of ten representatives of the main role-players in the industry, is established.
… Committee, consisting of ten representatives of the main role-players in the industry, is established. …
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
… the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing about African-Indian … Marxism, and orthodox Islamic…
BiographyC. M Kobus
… the Cape before qualifying as a lawyer in 1954. In the mid-1950s he served as national secretary of the All African …
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
… and Harbour Worker's Union for Africans,and in the late 1950s was both a provincial and national official of the … a member of the ANC National Executive…
BiographyJ. E. Malepe
… the Transvaal African Teacher's Association. In the early 1950s he identified himself with Selope Thema's …
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
… of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the 1950s. In 1962 he attended an international labor conference …
BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
… a member of the Africans' Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now …
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
… that exposed the prison and farm conditions in the 1950s. He was part of a team of writers that included Henry … Requiem for Sophiatown, which was destroyed…
BiographyBarney William Ngakane
… secretary for the Institute of Race Relations in the early 1950s, he has more recently worked for the Christian …