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BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. It…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
BiographySammy Marks
The entrepreneur Samuel Marks was born in Lithuania in 1843. He arrived on African shores in 1868 where he began his career by hawking cheap jewelry and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… trades. Such educational levels make it difficult for Africans to be apprenticed since they lack the means to meet … is legislated on a broad front to…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… is unique and worthy of remembrance. He was one of the few Africans who served with deeds more than with words. CONGRESS … ground among Europeans, and…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… the towns were the White man’s creation and domain, and Africans were only allowed into towns when their labour was needed. The act had drastic implications…
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… in 1941, the Commission of Inquiry into Company Law in 1947 and the Commission of Inquiry into the Income Tax Act. …
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
Jabulile Nyawose and her husband Petrus Nyawose worked long hours for Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU), focusing on delivery to members and paying attention…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… 1936) of the land in South Africa for whites; it prevented Africans””two-thirds of the population at the time””from … was harsh, with illnesses and…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… they were fighting against passes. Despite the efforts by Africans to organise themselves politically, none of the … of various racially discriminatory laws…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… 1936) of the land in South Africa for whites; it prevented Africans””two-thirds of the population at the time””from … was harsh, with illnesses and…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… of Alfred Cronin and "native photographers" who subjugated Africans through photographic categorization, and the social … agitation of resistance…
BiographyThemba Thomas Mazibuko
Thomas Thembe Mazibuko attended Orlando West High School and became a member of the South African Student Movement(SASM). In 1974 as a member of SASM he and…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South Africans against the apartheid regime reached its height in … was created which included limited…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… during voting. To realise its objective of removing Africans from Sophiatown and settling them in Meadowlands, … agreed on was the need to ensure that Blacks…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… as the white colonial government sought to force Africans off their land to become cheap labourers in the …
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… ambitions that were curtailed by Europeans, and 2) Africans were not capable of doing missionary work because … career had a controversial nature to it…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… networks, the handbook reached large numbers of South Africans. On one occasion, the Health Secretariat distributed … on the incredible diversity of the…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… Luthuli and Professor Z.K. Matthews called on all South Africans to mark a national day of mourning for the victims … joined the stay away. Policemen in Cape…
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC) at Chesterville in Durban just before it was banned in 1960. He then went underground and embarked on a…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… with the "kaffirs" (a derogatory name for Black South Africans). I expressed my surprise, saying that I had never … my hatred of the endemic racism amongst…
BiographyLex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… South African government to give full recognition to the Africans participating in the war. 15-17 December, At the … to protests against the shooting and…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
Jacob Morake was born on 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night,…
BiographyMaboza Mackay
Member of the Pan African Congress
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… settled in the only accommodation in the area offered to Africans, namely; Top Location, and later, Sharpeville. This … piece of legislation intended to…
BiographyL.W.H Ackermann
Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 -