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BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… contribution to her community and South Africa’s liberation struggle as a whole. Moreover, she demonstrated … December 1996. Early Years Nokukhanya Bhengu…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1937 Orlando Pirates football club is founded. The SAAFA's (South African African Football Association) Bakers Cup is … Singh Cup. 1955 White Springbok team…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) . Walter Sisulu 's book ' South Africa Behind Bars' is handed out among the … of Documents Act of No 67 of 1952…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… during the mid 1800s, fleeing from the wave of Shaka Zulu's territorial expansion. His paternal grandparents, Isabella … Nombuyiselo Czarina Makalima, in…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… was in Durban in 1980 to work on my PhD research on black women’s struggles against pass laws. By then, I had been married … combined to make me choose my…
BiographyVilla Baker
… Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World … was killed in a heroic attempt to save a fellow miner’s life. Her…
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils , later, her husband, visited … SACP in the late 1950s. She was among…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Publishers.|African National Congress, (1980). The Role of Women in the Struggle against apartheid, 15 July. Available … 29 October, 2014]|African National…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… could monitor their actions and better produce results. Women were thus discouraged from moving with their husbands, … Indian Muslim community [9] . Parsees,…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
… collapsed as a result of her first alleged husband’s (who was a railway worker) abuse of alcohol. She … For instance, from November 1989, Black Sash and…
References and links: Local History
… 2nd ed. Pretoria: Protea Book House. Ferguson S. (ed) 1998. Collins Pocket English Dictionary. s l: Harper … [Accessed: 12 January 2015]. ShowMe, (2008/8), …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… in Johannesburg, South Africa six white English speaking women were brought together by their shared outrage against … with its own supporters. The…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Cape. Thabo Mbeki was named after one of his father’s best friends, Thabo Mofutsanyana , a leading member of the … game, he stuck with it throughout his time…
Janet Burnside Soga
… Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest … to Scotland immediately, but went to Emgwali, where Tiyo's aged…
A List of women involved in the women’s struggle in South Africa, 1900-1994
… Dorothea De Villiers Lilian Diedericks (involved in the 1956 March) Bettie du Toit Sheena Duncan F Brenda Fassie Millicent … Ramphele Mary Ranta Dolly…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… the farm Rhebokskloof and initially attended M.J. Stucki's school at Blauwvallei. She subsequently attended the … Christelike Vrouevereniging (Afrikaans…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… ‘Langalibalele’, his middle name, means ‘bright sun’. Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha became the first convert of the … the Union Missionary Seminary in Brooklyn…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… footnote mentioned once or twice among her better known, women comrades. Her political activism started on 19 May … stop the passing of the Separate…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Women’s League and become one of the founder members of the … of the Anti Pass Law march in Pretoria…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate society from oppression. … commitment to complete well-being…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… at Cofimvaba, Transkei, about 30 miles from his mother’s home at Qutubeni. For a long time during his early life, … basic unit of the organization, full…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… Fellow South Africans, Today, August 9th is National Women's Day. On this day, as a nation, we re-commit ourselves to … remember those twenty thousand women…
Winifred Seqwana
… activity in the region and was a founder of the Langa Women’s Vigilance Association. In March 1947, Seqwana was arrested for her part in a protest … Scanlon,…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
… from the 1970s to the 1990s before being elected Cape Town’s first black woman mayor from 1996 to 1998, after serving as … mayor the previous year. In 1975,…
BiographyMadi Gray
… her mother understood the similarities between Hitler's Nationalist Socialist Party and the National Party in South … she thought was very important in South…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… to protest against the tightening grip of the government’s racist polices were staged by the ANC and other … the Defiance Campaign. Florence Matomela, one of…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… Mayat and her siblings’ lives revolved around their parent’s shop, which was very popular within the community. Later, … political and social activities. She…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… member of Communist Party. Launched the Federation of SA Women in the 1950's. Alie, Mohammed Cassiem, alias Abil Qaise Act No. 44 of … Bacola, Headman…
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
… and founder member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Lilian Ngoyi died on 13 March 1980. She was … eventually helped found the party’s…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… on ‘Problems in Poultry Raising’ at Tuskegee Institute’s commencement ceremony. 13 July-October: In order to pay his … to Budapest, Hungary and works gaining…