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BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member…
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
Richard Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string…
BiographyMichael Gagashe Zondi
Michael Zondi was born on 10 March 1926 in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at Mtulwa, Natal. He…
BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
Dr Emmanuel Bonginkosi "Blade" Nzimande was born in Kwa-Dambuza, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of…
Diana (Di) Bishop
Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town. She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic. During the celebrations,…
BiographyCameron Mbulelo Madikizela
Cameron Madikizela graduated from Fort Hare. He was a member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA). He taught…
4. Conclusion
… He also helped organise circumcision schools. In the 1970s he moved deep into the mountains and earned extra …
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, born Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah on 21 September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region…
BiographyC. S. Mabaso
C. S. Mabaso was born and educated in Natal and worked at various times as a teacher, a shopkeeper, and a clerk. For about 20 years he also was the secretary…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
Elijah H. Mdolomba was born in the Cape and educated at Healdtown. At the time of Bhambatha Rebellion in 1906, he was chaplain to a loyalist African army unit…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… of the organization’s history, noted in the late 1970s that “no Afrikaner government can rule South Africa … the mining and farming sectors (characterized in…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
Archibald Jacob Gumede was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana Gumede a former ANC…
Anwar Al Sadat, president of Egypt (1970-81), is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, forty miles north of Cairo. He achieved peace with Isr
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
He was an author, illustrator, sculptor, heaven-herd and philosopher. He lived in the Ceza district where he received training as an inyanga from both his…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
Dorothy Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… interrupted by the political instability both in the 1970s and 1980s. As a youth, he joined the Congress of South …
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`…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… power and the conflicts that took place in Defy in the 1970s and 1980s over representation and working conditions. …
BiographyCedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued…
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…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… and social structures of the country. In contrast, the 1970s was a period during which the apartheid state began to … The re-emergence of resistance politics…
BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali…