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ArchiveConscripts to their age: African National Congress operational strategy, 1976-1986 by Howard Barrell
Introduction Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language CHAPTER 2 - You only win once CHAPTER 3 - Unprepared CHAPTER 4 …
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in Brandfort, Free State. Her father Frederik Johannes Kok was a school principal in Brandfort, where she matriculated in…
BiographyJohannes Jacobus Degenaar
Johannes Jacobus Degenaar was born on 7 March 1926 in Ladysmith. As a young man he was sent to the Cape to study at the University of Stellenbosch, where he…
BiographyMilwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
Mnyaluza Pemba was born on 2 April 1912 at Hill’s Kraal in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der Kemp Mission Primary…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… Crisp publishes Abraham’s second novel, Song of the City. 1946 Mine Boy , considered one of Abraham’s most important … it as one of the three books of the…
BiographyVeerammal Naidoo
… in the Harijan (a newspaper in India ) on 11 August 1946, Gandhi reproduced an extract from a letter he had …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell)…
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His father, Zachariah, who was educated at a Mission school, was the…
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
Dawie de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser…
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in Germiston…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… Indian Congress (TIC). Vandeyar was involved in the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign (against the Asiatic Land …
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane…
BiographyJohn A. Mavuso
Born in 1926 Mavuso worked at different times as a messenger and a shopkeeper. He was a member of the African National Congress national executive committee…
Representation & Reality: Portraits of women’s lives in the Western Cape 1948 - 1976 by Helen Scanlon
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
S.G. Sekano Ntoane was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria. He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran…
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile…
"Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936", Umsebenzl, 16 May 1936
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape…
BiographyAmy Thornton
Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…
BiographySatyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated at St Oswald's School…