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BiographyBhekisisa Harold Nxasana
Harold Bhekisisa Nxasana was born on 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… identity searching within the organization throughout the 1950s, the majority of the members were generally unconcerned … this stigma did not remain, as the…
BiographyVictor Poto
Victor Poto was born in 1897 at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was installed as…
BiographyBerney Perez
Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. He worked as an office machine technician while studying…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… an alliance of the anti-apartheid forces of the 1950s composed of the African National Congress, the South …
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyProfessor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April 1943 in Akure, Ondo…
BiographyDebi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in…
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the…
BiographyStanley Silwana
Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended…
Alleged date the Suppression of Communism Act, No 44 of 1950 is passed in parliament. 26 June is given in several sources, and
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… its landmarks: playing in the Huddleston Jazz Band in the 1950s on a horn donated by Louis Armstrong; performing in the … the destruction of apartheid. A…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack … the ebb of the movement there. Thus, well before the 1950s, the lack of a…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…
BiographyEsther Franks
Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… the heritage of struggle in black sport before the 1950s. It laid the foundation from which the anti-apartheid … for racial integration, equality, and human…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… a member of the clandestine SACP’s leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He told the Cape Town based Russian … and discussions with Moses Kotane at…
BiographySelf Mampuru
Self Mampuru was born in 1908 into the leading family of chiefs of Sekhukhuneland. In the 1930s in Johannesburg he met William Ballinger, who helped him go to…
BiographyErnest Malgas
Ernest Singqokwana Malgas was born August 8th,1937 in Port Elizabeth. Malgas never attended school.He became politicized as a result ,he spend six weeks in…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… that Coloured politics took another direction in the 1950s. Before the introduction of Apartheid, there were … a major campaign like the SAIC and ANC in the…
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… and development in the context of South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, and explaining its strategic political …
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… of the African National Congress in the late 1940s and 1950s, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews exercised a major …
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…
BiographyDavid Phaswane Mogano
David Phaswane Mogano was born on 2 September 1932 in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal, Mogano was educated at Mogano Higher Primary School in Pietersburg. He…
BiographyThomas Mbeki
Little is known of his background except that he was Xhosa-speaking and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… echoed the million-signature campaign of the ANC in the 1950s. Elleck began to work for the Community Resources and … activist who had been involved with…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the rights of Black people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the early 1960s, showed the intension by the South … leading to the decision to take up…