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| B-0008329 | biography | Jock Leyden | 1908-2000 | – |
| B-0068648 | biography | Ismail Vadi | 1960 | – |
| B-0080664 | biography | Mme Makwena Matlala | – | ✓ |
| B-0008243 | biography | Lungile Kepe | 1927 | – |
| R-0095678 | archive | The Final Prize - Contents and Preface | 17 May 2013 | – |
| A-0016522 | article | uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) | 20 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0065448 | article | Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89 | 4 Jul 2011 | – |
| B-0068265 | biography | Joseph Nkatlo | – | – |
| B-0144777 | biography | Thomas Mbeki | 1900 | ✓ |
| A-0068893 | article | Oliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011 | 28 Oct 2011 | – |
| B-0068302 | biography | George Edward Peake | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0008348 | biography | Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla | 1948 | – |
| B-0009200 | biography | Jean van der Poel | 1904-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0098965 | biography | Welcome Mandla Koboka | 1941-1997 | ✓ |
| E-0013717 | event | Miriam Makeba, South African singer, dies | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0009227 | biography | Walter Gilbert Wiles | 1875-1966 | – |
| B-0007806 | biography | Omar Badsha | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0068769 | biography | Fani Mkhize | – | – |
| B-0093704 | biography | David Hartman | 1961 | – |
| B-0009166 | biography | Stephen Vukile Tshwete | 1938-2002 | ✓ |
| A-0016660 | article | Women at the start of the 20th century | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0099944 | archive | Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About | 3 Nov 2015 | – |
| B-0008619 | biography | Doe Molefe | 1950 | – |
| B-0067953 | biography | Dilizantaba Mji | – | – |
| P-0098968 | place | Steadville, Ladysmith | 27 Feb 2015 | ✓ |
| B-0121658 | biography | M. J. M. Williams Shope | 1919 | – |
| B-0009039 | biography | Mark Shope | 1918-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0096633 | biography | Mthuli ka Shezi | 1947-1972 | – |
| B-0093742 | biography | Julian Raymond Cobbing | 1944 | – |
| B-0068549 | biography | Mike Terry | 1947-2008 | – |
BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
Mme Makwena Matlala
The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal (now Polokwane,…
BiographyLungile Kepe
Born in 1927 Kepe worked as a labourer. He took part in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the Defiance Campaign…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… the Treason, “Fischer”, Rivonia and ARM trials (in the 1950s and 60s), extending into each decade of the century … campaigns in the two founding decades of…
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…
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…
BiographyJoseph Nkatlo
Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the December 1960 consultative conference of African leaders in…
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)…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Tuch and OR joined the law company of Solomon Kowalsky. 1950s 1951 24 July, Qualifies as an attorney 1952 Establishes …
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the…
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but…
BiographyJean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and she…
BiographyWelcome Mandla Koboka
Welcome Mandla Koboka was born in Johannesburg in 1941. At age twenty he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly Street Art Centre. He…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… Makeba built her reputation in the music industry in the 1950s singing for the Cuban Brothers and the Manhattan …
BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
Walter Gilbert Wiles was born in Cambridge, England in 1875. Wiles was one of the five artist-sons of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Of all the five sons, he was…
BiographyOmar Badsha
Omar Badsha was born in Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal) in June 1945. He grew up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the…
BiographyFani Mkhize
Fanio (also documented as Fanozi and called Chicken Man) Mkize was born in 1950. When Mkize was retrenched from Clover Dairies he earned a living dealing in…
BiographyDavid Hartman
Dave Hartman was born in 1961 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. His mother was born…
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East London…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … who did not belong to any political…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… many white men left to join the army. It was only in the 1950s that black women joined the industrial workforce in … restrictions on the trade union movement…
BiographyDoe Molefe
Doe Molefe was born in 1950 in Dukathole, Germiston. Molefe began making highly original post-boxes at an early age. He is currently self-employed, running a…
BiographyDilizantaba Mji
Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… importance of Mbeki’s presence in Ladysmith in the early 1950s. One veteran of the struggle reported: Nelson Mandela … Things changed when Mbeki was…
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early age and received…
BiographyMark Shope
Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an…
BiographyMthuli ka Shezi
Mthuli ka Shezi was a leading Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) intellectual. He was also a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the…
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD…
BiographyMike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded the Boycott…