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BiographyCaiphas Nxumalo
Caiphas Nxumalo graduated from Rorke's Drift in 1971 and during the 1970s was a free-lance artist in Pomeroy. He uses indigenous woods for his sculpture and…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… Armstrong; performing in the musical “King Kong” in the 1960s and at the Guildhall and then Manhattan schools of … That list captures only a fraction of his…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
Document 69 - We Must Learn New Methods of Work”, Congress Voice, issued by the Emergency Committee of the A.N.C., 2, 2, May 1960
South Africa concedes that almost two million Black people have been relocated since 1960, but maintains that only 456,860 were
BiographyRashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town,…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… treason 1959 Heads the ANC’s Constitutional Commission 1960s 1960 Tambo is detained in South West Africa (Namibia). …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… policies. Although revelations in the press, in the 1960s, about Afrikaner Broederbond membership began to erode …
BiographyFrederick John Harris
Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party In 1962 in the Transvaal, as…
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly…
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
Stanley Basil Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… no direct connection was made with worker struggles of the 1960s as these scholars and others incorrectly believed that the 1960s was a period of…
BiographyMafabela Jacob Mafobela
Mafabela Jacob Mafobela was a victim of the 1960 Sharpeville killings
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… league. This fact concerned the Black Sash less in the 1960s when the organisation allowed all races to join. … by opening up offices throughout country…
BiographyTseko Naphtali Maine
Tseko Naphtali Maine was killed in the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960.
BiographyJohn Motsoahae Mailane
John Motsoahae Mailane was killed in the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960.
BiographyAndrew Meintjes
Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, he met photographer David Goldblatt…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…
BiographyDiamond Bozas
Diamond Bozas was born at Isipingo. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London. He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts…
BiographyEric Hendrik Louw
Louw was a politician and a diplomat. During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…
BiographyFranz Hodi
Hodi worked at Mariannhill under Sister Pientia Selhorst C.P.S. between 1960 and 1967. Exhibitions: 1965: DAM (Bantu Inter Faith Art Exhibition). …
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St Peter's…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… and electricity. A Post Office was erected in the early 1960s, and a telephone exchange followed soon after. The … railway station, as well as a coal…
BiographyKeable Mote
Keable Mote was born in 1898 in Leribe, Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers'…
BiographyBobby Hendricks
Hendricks was born in Caledon on 7 February 1936. He started his music career as a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). Later, he…
BiographyStephen Tefu
Stephen Tefu was born about 1910, he was recruited to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Pretoria at a time when the party was at a low ebb. Shortly…