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BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of…
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of…
BiographyDennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of…
BiographyLorna Peirson
She was born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a BA(FA) in 1950 from UN(P). From 1941 to 1950 she taught at…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, "The Origin and…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… from their Sotho/Tswana neighbours, which, during the 1950s were manifesting themselves in numerous tribal … recognition by Apartheid's planners, and as…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… occurrence in the gold mines of South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s (and even now) (Dunbar Moodie, Vivienne …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… for human rights. Race in USA A billboard in the 1950s in USA. Image source In the 19th century … and had had taken their land. On the other side, in the…
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training Institution, where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary … with the experience of…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… of an exilic movement that had begun in earnest in the mid 1950s. The future Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer, … audiences to understand the brutality of…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… area were preceded by the Polly Street Art Centre of the 1950s which was later transferred to the Jubilee Arts Centre …
Korean War (1950-1953). South African No 2 Squadron, known as Cheetah Squadron, comprising of fifty officers and 157 other rank
Statement Welcoming The Resolution Of The United Nations General Assembly On The Treatment Of Indians In South Africa, November 1950
Statement on a National Day of Protest, by the Central Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League (Transvaal), May 31, 1950
”United Anti-Fascist Rally.”flyer announcing rally in Durban on May 28, 1950, to be addressed by Dr. J. S. Moroka, [n.d.]
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…
BiographyMabunu Mkize
Tensions between the Ntanzi and Bomvu communities developed in the 1940s, allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, ”was…
BiographyMzinto Ngubane
Tensions between the Ntanzi and Bomvu communities developed in the 1940s, allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, “was…
BiographyNkume Ngubane
Tensions between the Ntanzi and Bomvu communities developed in the 1940s, allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, “was…
BiographyMxolisi Mgxashe
Mxolisi “Bra Ace” Mgxashe was born in 1944. He joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s…
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…
BiographyHammington Silulami Majija
A graduate of Healdtown, he taught in Rhodesia and the Transkei and later worked as business manager of Contact in Cape Town. A prominent figure in the Liberal…
BiographyClifford Bestall
He taught art at the Natal Technical College during the 1970s. He exhibited on major group exhibitions of the period and was invited to hold a solo exhibition…
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,…
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…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… The Witness, From www.witness.co.za By the mid-to-late 1950s SOYA was wracked by internal problems, and debates …