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BiographyMoses Mphahlele
Moses Mphahlele was the Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Transvaal during the 1920s, he was born in Pietersburg and received his…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… to new measures passed by the apartheid government in the 1950s. One of the factors that loomed large in the general … a year earlier. The May Day protest…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… society, including the urban areas, were passed in the 1950s. Among others, two pieces of legislation passed in 1950 … from the city became undisguised…
BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… Malan as his deputy. NP Ascendancy and Apartheid (1939-1950s) The split decision in 1939 to take South Africa into … of Africa (founded 1919 by Clements…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographyCharles Nupen
Charles Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts…
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
Hoosen Mia Haffejee was born on 6 November 1950. Haffejee grew up in Pietermaritzburg and completed his primary schooling at St. Paul’s School and Marion…
BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
BiographyPaul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… of a progressive trade union movement, and during the 1950s Port Elizabeth became the heartland for a number of …
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… - the first time since the political “stay at home” of the 1950s – and to exercise the power of factory based mass …
Polokwane an Overview
… and the homelands in the region. The uprisings of the late 1950s and mid-1980s in Sekhukhuneland had a marked effect on …
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her…
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
Letter on plans for June 26, from the Rev. J. J. Skomolo to Professor Z. K. Matthews, June 16, 1950
St. Peter's Mission 16-6-50 My dear Chief; I am writing you a private letter. The national executive has agreed on the sit down strike on June the 26th…
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC in an Emergency Meeting on May 21, 1950
Post-Mortem on a Tragedy.” Editorial on the events of May 1, by Jordan K.. Ngubane, in May 20, 1950
Denis Warburton Begbie, SA cricket player in five tests (1947-1950), is born in Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal.
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… house, one Mr Lavisa. Mbeki excelled at school. The mid-1950s were the years in which the nationalist government …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… the league began withdrawing from the organisation in the 1950s, fearing state repression. In 1953 Neville Alexander … 1952 and served as vice-president of…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. Today Africa has millions of people who have HIV/AIDS. …
A Place of Freedom
… of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid in the 1950s. In 1920 Manilal confessed to a friend: For a …
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… segregated lines. A mini population boom began in the 1950s and 60s, and the White population increased from 2186 …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… Campaign and the Congress of the People. During the 1950s the National Party (NP), which came into power in 1948 … conspicuous and prominent in national…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown |1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s …