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BiographyAndrew Tshabangu
Andrew Tshabangu was born in Soweto, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
BiographyStephen Mini
He was an early leader of the African National Congress (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Gastrow, S. (1992) Who`s Who in South African politics Number 4.p.67. If you would…
Lionel Morrison
Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation…
"People's Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa", The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
ArchiveSharpeville - March 21, 1960 by Petrus Tom
In 1960 before that terrible day of March 21 some workers resigned from work because they were preparing for that day.
ArchiveFighting Talk Volume 14 number 3 August 1960
Fighting Talk - a journal for democrats of all races, africans, indians, coloured and whites, in Southern Africa. Special issue on Africa, 1960.
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… the British and failed. Bambata had resorted to arms in 1906 and also failed. Deputations, petitions, demonstrations, …
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Headquarters Report 1976
The Black Sash National Headquarters Annual Report given at National Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing National Demonstration, international visitor,…
ArchiveDecember 16, 1976: Parents day of pledging s
Circular, issued by the Soweto Students Representative Council, calling for a commemoration on 16 December 1976, of those killed in police violence and a…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…
ArchiveAlexandra: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
Alexandra: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1986 discussing housing conditions, violence, protests, police violence, State of Emergency,…
BiographyLeng Dixon
Leng Dixon was born in 1916 in Cape Town. He joined the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. His father died while he was still young and this had negative socio…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
Margaret Smith was born Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei. [i] Her father, Chisholm MacDonald,…
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
Philip Ate Kgosana was born in 1936 in Makapanstad in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a minister. He graduated from the Lady Selborne…
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…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
Introduction Part One - South African Socialists and the radically-divided working class Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in South Africa", 1907 …
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… ‘Corinthians' tours South Africa (and again in 1903 and 1906). 1898 The Orange Free State Bantu Football Club tours … South Africa for a second time (first…
Archive68. Indian passive resistance, 1946-7
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
ArchiveAfra Report Number 28 1986
ArchiveAfra Report Number 27 1986
ArchiveAmandla-Matla Volume 5 Number 2 1976
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