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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 …
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…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… Managing Director of the Corporation in 1945. During the 1950s he was involved in the expansion of Anglo American's …
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… that started to bring women together during the 1950s to demonstrate their opposition to the South African … in the 1980s commemorated FEDSAW’s actions in…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… division of labour in the industry was striking. By the 1950s, Coloured women constituted over 30 per cent of the … of the FCWU’s creation of “union schools”…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…
Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
BiographyDundubela Aubrey Mokoena
Dundubela Aubrey Mokoena, was the former executive director of the Black Community Programmes (BCP). November 1978. Soweto. he was released from prison and…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who…
BiographyT W Thibedi
Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
BiographyEsther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… voices were lost as the neat political groupings of the 1950s and early 1960s revived from the 1980s onwards. The …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
Born in 1956, Mofokeng grew up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial experiences with…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… of the 1930s from the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 … method through which the ANC sought…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… of ‘revolution in South Africa’ at the close of the 1950s, to the practical steps taken towards this course of … Bantu Authorities in South Africa's rural…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… mass meeting and collectively condemned the ban on Dadoo. 1950s Defend Free Speech Convention The 1950s began with a new commitment to cross-organisational …
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Nationalism and Working-Class and Popular Resistance 1900-1950s , and The Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance …
Telegram To Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Leader Of The Indian Delegation To The United Nations General Assembly, November 21, 1950
Following the interim Schlebusch report tabled earlier the day, banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 a
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 12 - Blind … disagreed with this apÂproach”¦" Throughout the 1950s, in fact, on the…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle,…