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BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s…
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
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… policies. Although revelations in the press, in the 1960s, about Afrikaner Broederbond membership began to erode …
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… it was destroyed by the Group Areas Act from the 1960s, leading to fierce resistance that continued into the …
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…
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,…
BiographyLucky Shabalala
Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving heads. Shabalala…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyMafabela Jacob Mafobela
Mafabela Jacob Mafobela was a victim of the 1960 Sharpeville killings
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy affectionately known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a century. He…
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…
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). …