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Almost 200 Black families, who were removed from their land in Eersterus, east of Pretoria in the 1950’s, receive R17 million f
”National Day of Protest and Mourning, Stay at Home on Monday, 26th June! “flyer issued by [twelve persons], June 15, 1950
Report of Emergency Meeting of the National Executive of the ANC. Issued by the Secretary-General of the ANC, 26 July 1950
The Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 rears its ugly head. The predominantly White Congress of Democrats is banned by the
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, and sentenced to three years`…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Alleged date the Suppression of Communism Act, No 44 of 1950 is passed in parliament. 26 June is given in several sources, and
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…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
BiographyBrigalia Bam
Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work,…