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BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni…
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,…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… up with or knew, as a young man in the 1960s and early 1970s, came to an alternative view about racism and … years, namely why I, as a young Afrikaner in…
BiographyC. M Kobus
C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the…
BiographyDaniel Gordon Gabashane
Gabashane is a graphic artist and ceramic sculptor. He attended the ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift during the 1960s. He was an instructor at the…
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes…
BiographyJames J. Majoro
A clerk and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the…
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…
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
Vuyani Mabaxa grew up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s,…
BiographyDinah Molefe
Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in the Cape, he…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
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,…
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a period on the Cape…
ArticleThe Homelands
… itself independently without White intervention. In the 1970s, the South African government declared four of the …
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign a new customs agreement in Pretoria, to come into operation on 1 March 1970.
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… so many held different views. Towards the middle of 1970s SASO began to assert its ideological stance and … of Winnie Kgware. A watershed period for SASO…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South…
BiographyShulamith Muller
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948…
BiographyKagiso Patrick Mautloa
Kagiso Patrick (called Pat) Mautloa was born 24 September 1952 in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal. Mautloa's family moved to Soweto in 1954. He attended…
BiographyElizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s…
Lionel Morrison
Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono,…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… international perception had changed, as throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Free Mandela campaigns were run in a variety …
BiographyLucky Shabalala
Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving heads. Shabalala…
BiographyRashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town,…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…