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Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… the border in Morocco. Source: Pretoria News Library. The 1960s period marked an important watershed in South Africa’s … Source: South African National…
BiographyEnver Hassim
Enver Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His father made a living as a middleman and…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of the liberation organisations and … building consisting of only 52 cells and…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… as the neat political groupings of the 1950s and early 1960s revived from the 1980s onwards. The colloquium seeks to …
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles,…
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
Philip Ate Kgosana was born in 1936 in Makapanstad in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a minister. He graduated from the Lady Selborne…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… During the 1960s most of Africa’s countries had gained independence … (PLAN), and an armed insurrection started. During the 1960s, Angola was a Portuguese…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… there was a rapid expansion of education during the 1960s and 1970s, but the momentum dropped in the 1980s. One …
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… Most historians consider the first half of the 1960s as a period in which the Nationalist Party (NP) … Africa to want to maintain good relations with the UK…
Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
Isaac Zakes Nkosi, known to his fans as Bra Zakes, was born in Alexandra Township early in 1919. He started his schooling in Alexandra at a Catholic primary…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…
Pedi
… system than a means of household subsistence. In the early 1960s, about 48% of the male population was absent at any given time. From the 1930s to the 1960s,…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… leading figures at the University of Dar Es Salaam in the 1960s and 70s. He is known for numerous political essays and … for use in the data collection of…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
[This statement was to have been made to the court before the passing of sentence, after which I had been found guilty of burning my pass, guilty of disobeying…
South Africa signs multilateral treaty embodying results of the 1960-61 Tariff Conference pertaining to the General Agreement o
South Africa signs a treaty with Great Britain for the continuation of the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyHaile Selassie I
Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth name given…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
BiographyT W Thibedi
Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… overt political activity being suppressed throughout the 1960s, the NEUM also became dormant. Some of its influential …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… eyes of the apartheid government - terrorist. In the early 1960s, Mandela was increasingly on the radar of the apartheid … a troublemaker at first,…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… did not change radically for the next twenty years, by the 1960s its dialectic had begun to move from its crude … not feature high on the Government agenda…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… most major centres in South Africa. The SABC grew in the 1960s and 1970s as more radio stations, broadcasting in …