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BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923,he was one of seven children in a rural family that was later…
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
BiographyBrigalia Bam
Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work,…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… early 1930s, which sustained the gold mines well into the 1940s, when the War effort promoted the growth of a secondary …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… followed. All articles supported the boycott. By the late 1940s membership of the TLSA began to decline and by the …
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto uprising as the…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the…
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but…
BiographyJean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and she…
BiographyWelcome Mandla Koboka
Welcome Mandla Koboka was born in Johannesburg in 1941. At age twenty he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly Street Art Centre. He…
BiographyOmar Badsha
Omar Badsha was born in Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal) in June 1945. He grew up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… members of the African National Congress in the late 1940s and 1950s, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews exercised a …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… examinations which he achieves with a first class pass 1940s 1942 Is unanimously elected as Chairperson of the …
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East London…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and…
BiographyDavid Hartman
Dave Hartman was born in 1961 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. His mother was born…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be … than in their actual style of decoration. Since…
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early age and received…
BiographyEthel de Keyser
As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a marriage that lasted 10 years. She…
BiographyMike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded the Boycott…
BiographyFlorence Matomela
Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx control regulations…
Wendy Schwegmann
Wendy Schwegmann was born in 1954 in Zululand, where she spent her youth. She has a diploma in Interior Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate…
BiographyNomkhosi Mary Mini
Nomkhosi Mary Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National…
BiographyMthuli ka Shezi
Mthuli ka Shezi was a leading Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) intellectual. He was also a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the…