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BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he…
PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
… the old Wanderers club and Sport Grounds , in the 1940s. The Civic Centre development in the late 1960s took up …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… jive and bebop an American jazz style developed in the 1940s. Masekela had also joined the pit band and worked as a …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… money to their families in the rural areas. By the mid 1940s, every African residential area in cities around the … ”” shifted to the women. However, by the…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim was born in Durban on 29 May 1936. Ebrahim cut his political teeth in Trotskyite circles while studying at Sastri College and Natal…
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN) on 2 August 1940. His grandparents had come to South Africa…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Club and Modern Youth Society, flourishes during in the 1940s and 1950s." 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 … Dubow, S. & Jevees, A. South Africa's…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… nationalist circles particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. For instance he published a number of publications …
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali was born on 17 January 1940 in Vryheid, Natal, where he attended Inkmana High School. His parents were schoolteachers. He moved to…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
Edward Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where his father…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and his…
BiographyHester Elizabeth Cornelius
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her family was very nationalistic, with both her…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Nkabinde attend…
BiographyHelen Kies
Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape. Despite a very poor childhood, her father ensured that she received an…
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…
BiographySandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He…
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a…
BiographyGideon Mendel
Gideon Mendel was born on 31st August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… society in relation to the Jews in the 1930s and early 1940s. An Australian Professor of Anatomy said in 1926 that …
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
EventBram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds
… a close ally of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s. …
BiographyMike Hutchings
Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in South Africa in 1980. His earliest…
Zulu Community
… the KwazuluKwaZulu Homeland The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans and …
BiographyRaymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
Raymond Chikapa (Ray) Phiri was born in 1947 in Nelspruit (present-day Mbombela) in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He grew up with a passion for music,…
BiographyElijah Barayi
Elijah Barayi was born in Lingelihle, (Cradock ) Eastern Cape, on 15th of June in 1930. He was one of eight children of working class parents. Barayi…