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BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
Ray (or Taube, her Yiddish name) Harmel was born in Lithuania in 1905. Strongly influenced by some of her six brothers, she joined the-then illegal Lithuanian…
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)…
BiographyChief Justice Raymond Zondo
Chief Justice Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi Zondo (popularly known as Judge Raymond Zondo) was born in the rural town of Ixopo, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1960…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… a leader and inspirer to those who seek to change their lives for the better and seek to break out of the oppression … allow her to objectively understand…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… because they’d been there, on the shadowy edges of lives, ever since I could remember. It rained heavily over … he met and developed a personal relationship…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference presidential Address held at Durban, 1978
… forced removals, independence of Bophuthatswana, Steve Biko, detention without trial. …
ArchiveAZASM: from amidst the ashes shall arise a new nation
… background with red and black; artwork of iamge of Steve Biko behind flag of the Azanian Peoples' Organisation …
BiographyFranco Frescura
… and smear campaigns became a regular feature of their lives during this time, and although both parents took this …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… of black writers talking about the conditions of their lives in their own voices - voices with a distinctive stamp … Black Consciousness (BC) movement, of…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… and manuscripts, which were smuggled out of prison. These writings are referred to as the Govan Mbeki Collection and …
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Headquarters Report to National Conference 1978
… 1978 discussing Pensions, map of removals, death of Steve Biko, October Bannings and Detentions, Cillie Commission, …
EventSchalk van Rensburg testifies before the TRC
… that the death of former Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, might have been caused by poison, as there were known …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… injuring several others. Demonstrators running for their lives at Sharpeville, March 1960. Source: dailymaverick.co.za … as the South African Student…
ArchiveInterview with SASO leaders
… to make an appointment for a formal interview with Steve Biko, which took place the following day. Gerhart was …
South African Labour history
… majority were black. When gold production began, their lives were drawn into a system. The system developed until it affected every part of their lives, from…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… as an Afrikaans writer, even though much of his early writings and early education were in English. He matriculated …
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… authorities acted quickly after coverage of Steve Bantu Biko's murder in September the same year. Biko was one of the leaders of the Black Consciousness …
ArchiveCircular from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… The text of the Commission report was drafted by Steve Biko and the SASO Commission. …
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
ArchiveThe birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… person participating in that first meeting was Steve Biko. Nine years later he died in a South African jail. …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… Africa during apartheid lived oppressed and difficult lives. They had to endure extreme racial prejudice and … domestic workers had to solve in order to…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… by white students. It was this kind of situation that Biko had in mind when he expressed in his column, "I write … Students' Organisation (SASO), and the…
XIII - The Courts
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa In any society … to domination. There are certain things about the death of Biko,…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… mind make him an unforgettable colonial character, and his writings fascinating and enduring monuments, like his passes …
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… in newspapers, there were very few outlets for their writings. Black intellectuals faced limited resources and … conditions, they led multifaceted and…
Woltemade Award
… for exceptional acts of bravery, like risking their own lives to save others. …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… banning order by the the South African government. Steve Biko is introduced to politics as a teenager, when one of … three months. The South African Police…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… day, we salute them, the children of 1976, who gave their lives so that we and future generations of South Africans … our youth to enter the business sector…