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| B-0009138 | biography | Canodoise (Can) Themba | 1924-1968 | ✓ |
| B-0008063 | biography | Walton Zacharias Fenyang | 1877-1957 | ✓ |
| B-0068451 | biography | Richard Gert Sibande | 1907-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0096273 | biography | Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa | – | – |
| B-0095262 | biography | Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande | 1958 | – |
| B-0007856 | biography | Diana (Di) Bishop | – | – |
| E-0011543 | event | Kader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008053 | biography | Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp | 1907-1946 | – |
| B-0095199 | biography | Peter Hain | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0149333 | biography | Rebecca Bunting | – | ✓ |
| B-0008370 | biography | Fikile Magadledla | 1952-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0007915 | biography | Luli Callinicos | 1936 | ✓ |
| B-0008813 | biography | Tu Nokwe | – | – |
| B-0080525 | biography | Bokwe James Mafuna | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0068449 | biography | Gertrude Shope | 1925 | ✓ |
| R-0110169 | archive | SASPU National, 1980 - 1987 | 22 Feb 2016 | – |
| B-0008009 | biography | Leng Dixon | 1916-1968 | – |
| B-0009217 | biography | Aidan Walsh | 1932-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0068237 | biography | Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo | 1931 | – |
| B-0150555 | biography | Stephanie Urdang | – | ✓ |
| R-0099022 | archive | Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948 | 10 Mar 2015 | – |
| B-0008305 | biography | Chris Ledochowski | 1956 | ✓ |
| R-0076684 | archive | The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon | 8 Mar 2012 | – |
| E-0011654 | event | African National Congress Youth League is founded | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008280 | biography | Krotoa (Eva) | 1643-1674 | ✓ |
| B-0008832 | biography | Cedric Nunn | 1957 | ✓ |
| A-0097658 | article | The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970 | 22 May 2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008171 | biography | Oscar Hollander | 1864-1977 | – |
| B-0144754 | biography | Raymond Basil van Staden | 1961-2010 | – |
| B-0149455 | biography | Paul Mokabe | – | ✓ |
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
Canodoise Daniel Themba (Can Themba) was born in 1924, in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare,…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
Walton Zacharias Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the African National Congress (ANC) and for…
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
Richard Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string…
BiographySylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa
Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s…
BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
Dr Emmanuel Bonginkosi "Blade" Nzimande was born in Kwa-Dambuza, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of…
Diana (Di) Bishop
Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town. She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic. During the celebrations,…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… movement as a member of the ANC for the rest of the 1950s. Early in the 1960s, following the banning of the ANC, …
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp was born in Carolina, Mpumalanga, 1907. She was a daughter of Bertha Everard, had a brief career cut short by her death in a…
BiographyPeter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain was born on 16 February in 1950 in Nairobi Kenya but he grew up in Pretoria after his south african born parents returned home in 1951.His…
BiographyRebecca Bunting
Rebecca Bunting (nee Notlowitz) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic…
BiographyFikile Magadledla
Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, on 13 December 1952. As a young boy…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her…
BiographyTu Nokwe
Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer. When her father…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
BiographyGertrude Shope
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years…
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… discrimination in education. The mass militancy of the 1950s influenced the union in the latter half of the decade …
BiographyLeng Dixon
Leng Dixon was born in 1916 in Cape Town. He joined the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period…
BiographyAidan Walsh
Aiden Walsh was born in Durban in 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to…
BiographyAbednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
Born in Natal in 1931, he studied at Adams College and Ohlange Institute, where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a Durban textile plant,…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a family staunchly opposed to apartheid. Her father, a lawyer, worked in the…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 1 - The … Congress (ANC) arose as a mass organisation in the 1950s as the black working…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… the racist laws that targeted them, to how by the 1950s closer inter-ethnic ties were forged with the other …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… Programme of Action led to the Defiance Campaign of the 1950s." Further reading: Constitution of the ANC Youth …
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao, a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry…
BiographyCedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South …
BiographyOscar Hollander
Oscar Hollander was born in Cologne, Germany, 1864. He lived in SA from 1889; date and place of death not known. Information on Oscar Hollander, who apparently…
BiographyRaymond Basil van Staden
Raymond Basil van Staden was born on 27 January 1961 at the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied Security Management, Forensic…
BiographyPaul Mokabe
Mokabe was one of the students who stood up against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in African schools in 1976. In 1977, Mokabe…