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| B-0009262 | biography | Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu | 1905-1988 | – |
| B-0095274 | biography | Simon Nkabinde | 1937-1999 | – |
| B-0009082 | biography | Joe Slovo | 1926-1995 | ✓ |
| B-0095598 | biography | John Taolo Gaetsewe | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0068272 | biography | Philemon Pearce Nokwe | 1927-1978 | – |
| B-0080979 | biography | Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng | 1913-1990 | ✓ |
| B-0150748 | biography | Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers | 1900-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0065251 | biography | Luis Inácio Lula da Silva | 1945 | – |
| B-0009114 | biography | Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart | 1894-1982 | – |
| B-0068755 | biography | Paul Weinberg | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0007849 | biography | Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld | 1916-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008353 | biography | Moses Mabhida | 1923-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0008382 | biography | Yunus Ismail Mahomed | 1950-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0153551 | biography | Edson Sithole | 1935-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0149622 | biography | Carol Moses | 1968-2019 | ✓ |
| A-0065366 | article | Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle | 30 Jun 2011 | – |
| B-0149290 | biography | Dorothy Cleminshaw | 1922-2011 | ✓ |
| A-0099462 | article | Africa Timeline | 20 May 2015 | – |
| B-0007838 | biography | Peter Becker | 1921-1984 | – |
| B-0008151 | biography | Ellen Phyllis Hellman | 1908-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0007890 | biography | Peter McKenzie Brown | 1924-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0086265 | biography | Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias | 1925-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008841 | biography | Siphiwe Nyanda | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0096208 | biography | Vernon Celliers Berrange | 1900-1972 | – |
| B-0125661 | biography | Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo | 1947-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0076375 | biography | Dr. Percy Yutar | 1911-2002 | ✓ |
| A-0097743 | article | World War I Timeline 1916 | 13 Jun 2014 | ✓ |
| A-0013839 | article | A Culture of Survival | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0008105 | biography | Denis Theodore Goldberg | 1933-2020 | ✓ |
| A-0098751 | article | Sophiatown Timeline | 17 Dec 2014 | – |
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was a…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde was born on 30 November 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was…
BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern Cape.His father was a migrant mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary…
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…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil.President Lula had little…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…
BiographyPieter Arnoldus Beyleveld
Pieter Beyleveld was born in 1916 in the Orange Free State and educated at farm schools. He joined the army at the outbreak of World War II, when many of his…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
Yunus Ismail Mahomed was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up in Jeppe, attending…
BiographyEdson Sithole
Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was…
BiographyCarol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… Muhammad’s daughter Fatima, and had conquered Maghreb by 950 CE and Egypt by 969 CE. Sotho - Tswana states are formed …
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
Peter Brown was born in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo game. Despite this,…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
Advocate Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been…
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
Dr. Percy Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 February–19 December The Battle of Verdun…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
Denis Theodore Goldberg was born on 11th April 1933 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). His parents, Sam and Annie, had both been born in London,…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…