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EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in …
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… in the period of mass opposition politics during the 1970s and 1980s, SASO and SANSCO didn't need to formulate …
ArticleCode Name Rae book launch soon
… such as Paul David, Steve Biko and Ben Ngubane. During the 1970s, Rajes came into contact with the ANC underground and …
BiographyThelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but received private…
BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
John Hlatywayo was born in 1928, Chipinge, Rhodesia. Hlatywayo originally trained as a carpenter. He studied under Cecil Skotnes at Polly Street Art Centre and…
The Polly Street Era
… awareness of the socio-political situation. By the 1970s most of the cultural groupings that arose out of the … imagery of Dumile was complemente d in the…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…
BiographyS. J. J. Lesolang
S. J. J. Lesolang was born and educated in the Transvaal, he taught at Kilnerton during the 1940s and was president of the Transvaal African Teachers'…
BiographyJohn Bidwell Mancoe
John Bidwell Mancoe was born in 1895 in Reddersburg in the Orange Free State, he graduated from Healdtown and became a teacher. In 1923 he joined the…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
Suzanne (‘Zan’) Louw was born in Cape Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyMax Yergan
Max Yergan was born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield College. From about 1920 to…
Sally Knight Little, SA golf player who won the individual title in the world golf championship in Spain in 1970, is born in Ca
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
Nontetha Nkwenkwe is one of the most remarkable female religious leaders associated with independent churches in the 1920s. Born in King Williamstown in 1875,…
Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela
Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus, after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. She…
BiographyFrank Wiles
Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
Jonas Mosa Gwangwa was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
Born in 30 November 1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South…
BiographyIsaac Bokala
Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks…
BiographyGodfrey Sekhukhune
Mogaramedi Godfrey Sekhukhune was one of the ‘most important’ of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s…
BiographyPaul Herman Robinson
Paul Herman Robinson was born in Durban and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at the Natal Technical College. He did his apprenticeship in…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… compiling of medical boards, etc. Only later in the 1970s and at the beginning of the 1980s were women allowed to …
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… During the first half of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s Britain maintained good relations with South Africa. …
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many black South Africans…
The Pioneers
… on the occasion of her wedding in 1948. Throughout the 1970s Mohl exhibited his work in the garden of his home in … of books, many of which were commissioned…
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
Canodoise Daniel Themba (Can Themba) was born in 1924, in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare,…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
Walton Zacharias Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the African National Congress (ANC) and for…