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ArchiveDawn Volume 10 Number 4 April 1986
Dawn, a monthly journal by the Umkhonto we Sizwe, documented the guerilla attacks on strategic targets within the Republic.
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 8, 16 April 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 6, 19 March 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 4, 20 February 1960
Contact Volume 3 No 2, 23 January 1960
ArchiveContact Volume 3 No 2, 23 January 1960
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographyMonica Hunter Wilson
Monica Wilson's parents, Scots Presbyterian missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, 1908. From…
BiographyGraham Goddard
Graham Goddard was born in 1956 in Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past…
BiographyAlex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
As the Union Parliament prepares to assemble for its new session, the people of South Africa face the grim prospect of more fascist attacks from the Strijdom…
BiographyVukile Ntuli
Ntuli was born in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his primary school education at the Ndaleni Practising School, Richmond, at the Ndaleni…
Press statement by Tsietsi Mashinini, chairman of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, August 18, 1976 (handwritten)
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976
Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946
Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the Communist Leagueof South Africa, 3 March 1936
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas,…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… practising artists, was greeted with much optimism, and by 1906 it was confidently described as a society "with no rival … also in the Society's Rooms at 42…
BiographyNarainsamy Pillay
Narainsamy Pillay, the brother of Veerammal Naidoo, was jailed in November and December 1908 for brief terms with hard labour due to hawking without a…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg, daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni…
BiographyJoseph 'Headman' Shabalala
Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
"let Me Live - Letter To A European": June 19468 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and…