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BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
BiographyHarold Rubin
Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting privately with Roza…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… extremely high. After the Second World War in the late 1940s, there was a large increase in the number of gangs in …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… Department was changed to The Department of Defense in the 1940s In the 1980s, the MX-Missile was renamed "The …
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
Dawie de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser…
BiographyBernard Lazarus Sigamoney
Reverend Bernard Lazarus Emmanuel Sigamoney was a political activist, Christian minister, sportsman and champion of non-racial sport, trade unionist and…
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of Sidney Percival Bunting and Rebecca…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… 1930s and 1950s (the bulk of these having joined in the 1940s), with only two having joined the Party in the 1960s. …
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the…
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
Steven Eli Friedman was born on 31 March 1953 in Johannesburg. In 1971 Friedman began studying at the University of Witwatersrand. While at University, he…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
Ishmael Mkhabela began his political activism in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action…
BiographyBoas Moiloa
Boas Moiloa, from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal [North West Province] is described by Advocate George Bizos’ as ‘a dignified, elderly…
BiographyJoey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in Wellington, Cape…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… elected as the first general secretary of the FCWU in the 1940s. In 1941, the recently formed FCWU organized a …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… African/Indian racial dynamics in Natal. Beginning in the 1940s, tumultuous debates among black intellectuals over the … Champion (president of the Natal ANC…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… Levy Norman Levy entered liberation politics during the 1940s, finding his niche in the left wing of the liberation …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During the 1940s, he enrolled at the University of Fort Hare where he …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… most durable in the history of South African unionism. The 1940s also saw the establishment of the African Mineworkers …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… International of South Africa (FIOSA) emerged in the early 1940s after a split in the Trotskyist Cape Town-based Lenin … not without reservations. FIOSA died…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… Biography by Doreen Musson The years between 1930 and the 1940s were ones of profound change in the structure of South … John Gomas in the Cape." Throughout…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
Prof Brij Maharaj was born in 1957 in Merebank, south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN). His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a shop assistant at a…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…
BiographyAlan Stewart Paton
Alan Stewart Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal on 11 January 1903. His father, James Paton, a Scottish immigrant and civil servant, came to…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
Baruch Hirson, named after his late grandfather, was born on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician…