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| B-0008146 | biography | Abdool Kader Hassim | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007920 | biography | Sarah Carneson | 1916-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008233 | biography | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0125716 | biography | Ronald (Ronnie) Britten | 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008516 | biography | Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki | 1942 | – |
| A-0016519 | article | The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement | 20 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0095591 | archive | Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari | 6 May 2013 | – |
| B-0149494 | biography | Charles W H Kohler | 1862-1952 | ✓ |
| B-0149851 | biography | Shirish Nanabhai | – | ✓ |
| B-0151969 | biography | Govin Reddy | 1943-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0008285 | biography | Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo | 1879-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0007901 | biography | Sidney Percival Bunting | 1873-1936 | ✓ |
| B-0007885 | biography | Sydney Brenner | 1927 | – |
| B-0141668 | biography | Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0149618 | biography | Ebrahim Badsha | 1931-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0149326 | biography | Alois Mate | – | ✓ |
| B-0148453 | biography | Lot Kgagudi Maredi | – | ✓ |
| B-0150379 | biography | Lettie Malindi | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0151905 | biography | Essop Goolam Pahad | 1939-2023 | ✓ |
| R-0099023 | archive | Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party | 10 Mar 2015 | – |
| B-0149256 | biography | Shapurji Sorabji | 1918 | ✓ |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
| B-0007914 | biography | Rev. James Arthur Calata | 1895-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0008713 | biography | Thomas Patrick Murray | 1918-1975 | – |
| B-0009097 | biography | Enoch Mankayi Sontonga | 1873-1905 | ✓ |
| B-0008992 | biography | Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers | 1915-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008815 | biography | Victor Sidney Norton | 1906-1983 | – |
| B-0009209 | biography | Adriaan Vlok | 1937 | – |
| B-0095733 | biography | Professor Bernard Magubane | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographySarah Carneson
Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, later to…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Three documents, fundamental changes that…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review. His…
BiographySydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, close to Johannesburg, to Jewish parents on 13 January 1927. His father was a shoe repairman who had moved to South…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
Following widespread resistance, the Native Affairs Department (NAD) was forced to abolish the Bapedi tribal authority because of a lack of support. This led…
BiographyLettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a railway worker from the…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers' party The industrialisation of South Africa brought into exÂ…
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
Shapurji Sorabji was born in Adajan, India. He belonged to a well-known Parsi family in Bombay and was a cousin of Parsee Rustomjee, a loyal friend of Gandhi…
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and his mother Eliza, an…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his wife, Florence Mabel Essex. After…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his wife. His father's descent was English and his mother was…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a…