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BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
BiographySarah Carneson
Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… began to grow, and new townships were established in the 1960s and 1970s. The Indians were moved out of the town … Boitokong and Hartebeesfontein were…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… legislation, and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of … Pretoria Central Prison. Two decades in…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945. Solomon lived in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where she worked as a community…
BiographyFrank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM)…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… conduct of the struggle for liberation in the 1950s and 1960s were discarded and replaced by an approach that … departure from the non-racial struggle of the…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that were … strategy of the liberation movements from the…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… of the ANC campaigns in the 1950s and MK activities in the 1960s. Some of the leading members who were instrumental in …
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
BiographyLettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a railway worker from the…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
Alpheus Madaba Madiba born in 1901, in Nzhelele in the northern Transvaal, into a Venda peasant family.He emigrated to Johannesburg when he was 17 and found…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… of families units was probably closer to eighteen. In the 1960s Hlangane Msiza died, and leadership of what had by now … which translates to "the place of…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… League. The involvement of youth in politics in the 1960s, whether or not in response to developments in …
Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870– 1960 by Elizabeth A. Eldredge
“Every Secret Thing?” Racial Politics in by Ansuyah R. Singh’s Behold the Earth Mourns (1960)
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.15 1960
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.14 1960
Jim Pothecary, SA cricketer and pace bowler on the 1960 England tour, is born.
SA signs amendments to a multilateral treaty for the safety of life at sea, 1960.
Nigeria, which gained independence on October 1, 1960, becomes an independent republic within the Commonwealth.
Jim Pothecary, SA cricketer and pace bowler on the 1960 England tour, is born.
Remaking African Politics in the 1950s: The “Indian Question” and the Origins of Non-Racial Nationalism
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and his mother Eliza, an…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his wife. His father's descent was English and his mother was…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a…
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of…