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BiographyIssy Heymann
Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…
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…
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…
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
BiographyLeslie Rubin
The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), then a multiracial district of the…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
BiographyDan Sleigh
South African novelist and historian Daniel (Dan) Sleigh was born on 3 November 1938, on a farm, Geelbeksfontein, near Langebaan in the Western Cape. He was…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
The Natives Representative Council was established in 1937 in terms of the Representation of Natives Act 12 of 1936. That Act formed pan of the Bills which…
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…
ArchiveApril 1986: ECC members paint a mural at Cowley House
Coloured photographs of ECC members doing community work, in April 1986 and 1987.
ArchiveEast London Advice Office Annual Report 1975 to 1976
East London Advice Office Annual Report to National Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing case statistics, wages, marriage birth and death certificates,…
ArchiveThe Durban Unrest: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
The Durban Unrest: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1986 discussing Civil Unrest, confrontation between Inkatha and COSATU, foreign aid,…
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…
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…
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…