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BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
There had been periodic unrest at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province) from the 1930s onwards. During the 1950s,…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… College on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay in the early 1960s. Student numbers grew rapidly and in 1971 full …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham…
BiographyJames la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and political activist,…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
The eminent British statesman, Mr. Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Britain turned to Africa, including the Union, "to see." But, in the end, he did more…
ArchiveBechuanaland's Aerial Pipeline, 1960 - 1965 by Garth Benneyworth, 04 December 2017
ArchiveThe Black Sash/Die Swart Serp Volume 4 Number 5 September-November 1960
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… was unable to recover after going underground in the 1960s, their mission set the stage for other women’s … organisations of the time, FEDSAW went…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… bring people closer together, yet in South Africa in the 1960s things seemed to be going from bad to worse. Apartheid … the repression following the…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
Nellie Jibiliza was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the 1960s and early 1970s, came to an alternative view about … merrily while continuing to raise the flag. In…
BiographyBuchi Emecheta
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the Nigerian city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice …
Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman in eighteen tests during 1950s is born.
BiographySoromini Kallichurum
Soromini Kallichurum was born in 1932 in Ladysmith, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… not providing new houses in black townships in the 1960s and 1970s, overcrowding became inevitable. Residents …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… (SACTU) was banned along with the ANC for much of the 1960s and 1970s. 1973 The first direct labour protest breaks …
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… the Third world, notably including Mao Zedong. In the 1960s, debates on the relevance and applicability of …
BiographyPaula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded in 1903. The organization was later…
Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994: Part 2 Corespondence Section 2 General (Undated)
From the book: Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards
Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994: Part 2 - Corespondence Section 1 General (Dated)
From the book: Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards
ArticleBlack South African literature
… full-length published work of this kind. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was followed by several other autobiographies such …
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
ArchiveHarry Gwala, Political Militancy and State Trials, 1960-1977 by Mxolisi Dlamuka
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