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BiographyHelen Joseph
Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Easebourne, United Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
Alan Robert Lipman was born on 6 June, 1925 in Johannesburg into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II,…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
The Freedom Charter is adopted in Kliptown, bringing the ANC together with Indian, Coloured and White organisations.
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… Wednesday, 11 March 1970 ↵ [3] The O’Malley Archives, Chapter 2, Regional Profile Eastern Cape ↵ [4] …
The British Colonial Secretary addresses a dispatch that the Queen has approved a Royal Charter forming the British South Afric
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
BiographyBen Turok
Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. After…
Let’s talk about the holes in the Freedom Charter by Gareth van Onselen (Rand Daily Mail), 18 March 2015
Britain’s Queen Victoria issues charter to Cecil John Rhodes and others authorising them to establish the British South Africa
Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" the East India
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
Jabulile Nyawose and her husband Petrus Nyawose worked long hours for Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU), focusing on delivery to members and paying attention…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… among the Coloured people of South Africa, 1880-1984, in chapter 11, fordetails of the events leading up to the …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… in South Africa since 1945 . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. (chapter 1) Luthuli, Albert. Let My People Go . London, … People of South Africa . Cape Town, David…
UDF Poster ‘Unban ANC! Freedom day June 26: The Freedom charter for the People’s power’ by UDF, 1986, South Africa
African heads of state of the Monrovia Group, which includes Liberia, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, issue charter for Pan-African
BiographyKate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude)…
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
Florence Mophosho was born in 1921 Alexander Township, Johannesburg. She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified teacher, but…
BiographyEla Gandhi
Ela Gandhi was born in 1940 in Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal. Indians, Coloured, Whites and Africans lived here in harmony although…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… rights cannot be left to individuals or the government, Chapter Nine of the Constitution creates independent national …
The charter of the United Nations is adopted in San Francisco, USA, with SA prime minister, Gen. Smuts, present. The preamble o
BiographyLetsau Nelson Diale
Nelson Diale was born on 1st January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane Maphutha. In…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on…
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon…