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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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
BiographyMaboza Mackay
Member of the Pan African Congress
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 …
BiographyL.W.H Ackermann
Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 -
Amos Ndwalane
Struggle veteran Amos Ndwalane, who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990, was allowed out of his…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…
Robert Mokxotho Matji
Robert Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… Seminary, north of Durban. It was his first encounter with Africans as equals, where he attempted to go off-script from … made the English Channel more…
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…
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…