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| B-0008305 | biography | Chris Ledochowski | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008832 | biography | Cedric Nunn | 1957 | ✓ |
| A-0013843 | article | Sophiatown in Literature | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0153087 | biography | Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso) | 1943-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0068943 | biography | Sydney Sipho Sepamla | 1932-2007 | ✓ |
| B-0007908 | biography | Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi | 1906-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0007873 | biography | Marutle Flag Boshielo | 1920 | ✓ |
| B-0007867 | biography | Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier | 1909-2005 | – |
| B-0007850 | biography | Gerard Bhengu | 1910-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0068535 | biography | Nimrod Boyce Tantsi | – | – |
| B-0067163 | biography | Maggie Mikula | 1941-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0009106 | biography | Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom | 1893-1958 | – |
| B-0068145 | biography | Mavuso Walter Msimang | – | – |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0007828 | biography | Yetta Barenblatt | 1913-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0008217 | biography | Helen Joseph | 1905-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0076346 | biography | Hugh Lewin | 1939-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0093741 | biography | Jimi Matthews | 1955 | ✓ |
| A-0098757 | article | Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa | 18 Dec 2014 | – |
| A-0016985 | article | The effects of WW2 in Africa | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| E-0011311 | event | King Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0150808 | biography | Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0149653 | biography | Stephen Joel Chifunyise | 1948-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149472 | biography | Self Mampuru | 1908-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0149165 | biography | Ernest Malgas | 1937-1998 | – |
| B-0068700 | biography | Arnold Selby | 1918-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0009230 | biography | Sue Williamson | 1941 | ✓ |
| A-0150482 | article | A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners | 15 Oct 2020 | ✓ |
| B-0007902 | biography | Henry Burton | 1866-1935 | ✓ |
| B-0149506 | biography | Richard S. Canca | 1924 | ✓ |
BiographyChris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school…
BiographyCedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
BiographyProfessor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April 1943 in Akure, Ondo…
BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali…
BiographyMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee Thuswa). He attended…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
Boshielo was born to a poor family in 1920 in Phokoane village, in the Sekhukhuneland district in Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo Province. Boshielo joined…
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
BiographyMaggie Mikula
Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959. She then went on to study for a Diploma…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of…
BiographyRahima Moosa
Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. As a teenager, Rahima and her identical…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…
BiographyHelen Joseph
Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Easebourne, United Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a…
BiographyHugh Lewin
Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university he joined the…
BiographyJimi Matthews
Jimi Matthews was born in 1955 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. After school he enrolled at a university that was…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… for colonial rulers. The climate before WW2 By the early 1900s European countries had succeeded in establishing their …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… the workers. One of such incident, which occurred in early 1900s, was widely covered by the media across Europe. This …
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…
BiographySelf Mampuru
Self Mampuru was born in 1908 into the leading family of chiefs of Sekhukhuneland. In the 1930s in Johannesburg he met William Ballinger, who helped him go to…
BiographyErnest Malgas
Ernest Singqokwana Malgas was born August 8th,1937 in Port Elizabeth. Malgas never attended school.He became politicized as a result ,he spend six weeks in…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… [5] Pretoria Local Prison was built in the early 1900s, but after ‘Pretoria Central’ was built. The main …
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
BiographyRichard S. Canca
Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from…