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A Place of Freedom
… of being insulted and humiliated at any moment. In the 1960s through to the 1980s through states of emergencies and …
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… ANC respectively. The armed struggled, begun early in the 1960s was intensified in the second half of the 1970s through …
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
Fifty Years of Union - Political Review My assignment is: "Political Review - Fifty Years of Union." I hope I shall succeed in dealing with the subject with…
A Great Cause: The Origins of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, June 1959-March 1960 by Christabel Gurney
ArchiveSocial Mobilization and Racial Capitalism in South Africa, 1928- 1960 by Allison Drew, Los Angeles, 1991
This groundbreaking thesis is noted in particular for its study of the origins and evolution of Trotskyism in South Africa
The ANC, MK and the turn to violence by Paul S. Landau, 1960 - 1962, Johannesburg, South Africa
”Wind of Change”: A speech made to the South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960 by Harold Macmillan
Léopold Sédar Senghor poet, teacher, and statesman, first president of Senegal (1960-1980), and a major pro
A large-scale work and school stay-away takes place to commemorate the Sharpeville shootings in 1960.
Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi, SA artist, is born in Guguletu, Cape. He exhibited three times during the 1980s.
BiographyMohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Africans. The Liberation Struggle in South Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s gave rise to a number of schools of …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny “I want to live not …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… of World War II and continued growing into the 1950s and 1960s. In response to this growth and increased employment …
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
Zachius Botlhoko Molete was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His father was a teacher. He spent 1949 and…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… South Africa. [He moved to the United States in the early 1960s(?)] 1920s As a child I heard Mrs. Sarojini Naidu speak …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… to express his views on political issues. During the 1960s and 1970s Oppenheimer oversaw expansion of the diamond …
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards
Table of Contents Editorial Entries Part 1 Autobiographical Writings Part 2 Corespondence Section 1 General (Dated) Part 2 Corespondence Section 2 General …