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ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
An unassuming veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila Weinberg has suddenly died. She…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… National Congress as its Women's League structure in the 1940s. …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was …
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the economy was …
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… used were those of petitions and delegations; by the 1940s the more radical leaders of the ANC Youth League …
Dora Nginza
Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
Herbert Henry Curson, the eldest son of Henry Charles Curson, was born on 22 September 1892 in Upper Umzimkulu, KwaZulu Natal. His schooling was completed at…
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…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… of a dossier of trials of cases of beatings in the late 1940s, including one case in which a worker had been beaten …
BiographyMpush Makambi
Mpush Makambi was born in 1967 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. At school, Makambi was sporty but boxing was his first love. He turned professional in 1983 with a…
BiographyWilliam Khanyile
At a young age, around the early 1960s, William Khanyile began selling the New Age newspaper in Pietermaritzburg. By then he was already interested in Marxism…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
Nellie Jibiliza was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active…
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… are which flared up in the late 1930s and early 1940s in response to police raiding for liquor. In a sense … easy to depict the beer riots of the late 1930s…
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… Die Burger, in 1915 he became its cartoonist until the 1940s. Boonzaaier died in Cape Town in 1950. In 1973, his …
EventThe first OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg
… willing to negotiate with the Shopworkers' Union in the 1940s, and OK Bazaars employees were seen to be relatively …
EventKenya is granted independence
… The campaign for independence in Kenya dates back to the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African …
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
BiographyNgugi wa Thiong’o
The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on…
BiographyRichard Steele
Richard Steele was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second…
BiographyEzrom Legae
Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata Legae was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1938. He attended school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied…
BiographyKalushi Drake Koka
Kalushi Drake Koka was bornin Pietersburg on the 9th of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after completing his matric. In 1960, he became actively…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The…
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
Nokutela Dube was the first wife of Reverend John Langalibalele Dube, the first President General of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC- later…
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East Pondoland who…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…