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| B-0008178 | biography | Hassan Howa | 1922-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0008146 | biography | Abdool Kader Hassim | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007920 | biography | Sarah Carneson | 1916-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008233 | biography | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0125716 | biography | Ronald (Ronnie) Britten | 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0148002 | biography | Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0148784 | biography | Oupa Ronald Madondo | 1948-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0150021 | biography | Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela | 1960-2020 | ✓ |
| R-0151946 | archive | The exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo | 21 Feb 2023 | – |
| B-0008516 | biography | Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki | 1942 | – |
| A-0016519 | article | The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement | 20 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0141697 | biography | Joel Mabi Lengisi | 1920 | ✓ |
| B-0149336 | biography | Alfred Msutu | – | ✓ |
| B-0149851 | biography | Shirish Nanabhai | – | ✓ |
| B-0151969 | biography | Govin Reddy | 1943-2017 | ✓ |
| R-0151015 | archive | Webinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha | 21 Jul 2021 | – |
| B-0008285 | biography | Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo | 1879-1966 | ✓ |
| R-0099943 | archive | Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made | 3 Nov 2015 | – |
| B-0141668 | biography | Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0149618 | biography | Ebrahim Badsha | 1931-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0149326 | biography | Alois Mate | – | ✓ |
| B-0148453 | biography | Lot Kgagudi Maredi | – | ✓ |
| B-0150379 | biography | Lettie Malindi | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0151905 | biography | Essop Goolam Pahad | 1939-2023 | ✓ |
| B-0068305 | biography | Martin Plaut | 1950 | – |
| B-0008034 | biography | Bettie du Toit | 1910-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0007914 | biography | Rev. James Arthur Calata | 1895-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0008713 | biography | Thomas Patrick Murray | 1918-1975 | – |
| B-0009097 | biography | Enoch Mankayi Sontonga | 1873-1905 | ✓ |
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographySarah Carneson
Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, later to…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
Oupa Ronald Madondo (known as MK Scorpion) was born on 20 May 1948 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals…
BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. It…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Africa’s transition from informal racial separatism in the 1920s to formalized statutory apartheid in the 1950s and …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
BiographyJoel Mabi Lengisi
Joel Mabi Lengisi was born in 1920 at the Sitholeni Location, Engcobo, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], Lengisi later moved to East London African…
BiographyAlfred Msutu
Alfred Msutu was appointed Chief of Tyefu Location in the Peddie district, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] in January 1905. He was, however, suspended…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… activists creating worker literacy groups in the late 1920s; it emerged in the writings of Peter Abrahams and Alex … religion. The two complementary focuses…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… deprived of the company of women and children. But in the 1920s and 1930s many black women, especially young women, … White women, as we have seen, were…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
Following widespread resistance, the Native Affairs Department (NAD) was forced to abolish the Bapedi tribal authority because of a lack of support. This led…
BiographyLettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a railway worker from the…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…
BiographyBettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her mother had passed…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and his mother Eliza, an…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his wife, Florence Mabel Essex. After…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe…