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A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and patronised the bank. It began to diversify in the 1960s, setting up industrial and other enterprises, so that … as a result of the economic boom that…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this…
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…
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…
The Peoples's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
… religious meetings in Swaziland and Botswana in the late 1960s.As a student at Orlando High School in the early …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… 1919 by Clements Kadalie ). In the 1950s and early 1960s there were various protests against the National … Pan-Africanist Congress (an offshoot of the ANC)…
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…