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BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River, Natal on 28 June 1926 to Ramsamy Dharamalingam Moodley and Kanniamah Moodley; who themselves were children of Indian…
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)…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… outside influences until about thirty years ago. In the 1960s, the Department of Nature Conservation began to take …
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
… religious meetings in Swaziland and Botswana in the late 1960s.As a student at Orlando High School in the early …
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto uprising as the…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
Hon Minister Sicelo Shiceka; Hon Premier Kiviet; Members of the Provincial Executive present; Mayors of OR Tambo and Ingquza Hill Municipalities; Hon…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… and even during the contemporary times, that is until the 1960s (Sanders, 1997). However, missionaries were quick to … in the gold mines of South Africa…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… an exodus of political activists into exile. In the 1960s, the Government introduced a number of security laws, … MK bases in independent African countries…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
Parts of it have been referred to as the "Imperial Ghetto" (Badsha: 2001) or the "Duchene" and "Casbah" (Hassim: 2009) or simply "town" by the many who have…
Patrice Emery Lumumba, premier of the Congo (1960-1961), is born in Katoko-Kombe (Kasai).
Gateway to International victory: the diplomancy of the African National Congress in Africa, 1960 - 1994
Censorship and the reading practices of South African Political Prisoners, 1960-1990 by Archie L. Dick
South Africa’s Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960 edited by Les Switzer
The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1960-1970 by South African Democracy Education Trust
ArchiveMkhumbane our home African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960 by Iain Edwards
This study is concerned with all the material structures of everyday life and the nature of power in the African shacklands of Cato Manor Farm. Click to read:…
Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt
An Appeal to Thinking South Africans by Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, 1930s, South Africa
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… an underground military wing known as Poqo ('Pure') in the 1960s. This became the first black political organization in … spread. After the government…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of apartheid grew, the …
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… its real identity as an Indian group area through the 1960s and early 1970s. Historically, Durban Whites had long …
Document 49 - ”The Stay-Home Call: Why did it fail?”. Congress Voice, issued by Emergency Committee of the A.N.C., 2, 2, May 1960
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 49 - ”The Stay-Home Call: Why did it fail?"…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… which decimated elephant populations across Africa. In the 1960s, raw ivory prices remained between $3 and $10 per …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… 1940s membership of the TLSA began to decline and by the 1960s the Apartheid government began banning its leaders. It … vice-president of the TLSA in the mid…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles,…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… many workers to the town to the point that, until the 1960s, it maintained its place as South Africa's third … working class character which it retained…