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BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of…
BiographyEdward Clark Churchill Mace
Edward Clark Churchill Mace was born in Leicester, England, 1863. He emigrated to Australia when he was eighteen and made a fortune from mining. Rendered…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and his…
BiographyHester Elizabeth Cornelius
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her family was very nationalistic, with both her…
BiographyIsmail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert
Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Nkabinde attend…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three…
BiographyHelen Kies
Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape. Despite a very poor childhood, her father ensured that she received an…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of internal resistance during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has a wide ambit and covers a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early colonial…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Mofolo Arts Center (Mofolo Cultural Bowl and Arts Centre) (1970s) Natal Society of Arts Gallery - KZNSA Natal Visual …
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… by state repression. But South African workers - as the 1970s showed vividly - have found methods of laying … of the growth of industry, African workers had…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… government insisted on its implementation from the early 1970s. At the time, the apartheid rulers felt emboldened by … township-based resistance…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
BiographyGideon Mendel
Gideon Mendel was born on 31st August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… tumultuous political period of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Achebe became politically active. Most of his literary …
BiographyMike Hutchings
Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in South Africa in 1980. His earliest…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… Fietas, once an Asian neighbourhood until suddenly, in the 1970s the area was handed over to the whites. People lost …
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… joined these alternative art education centres in the 1970s but was forced to relocate to the Mofolo Art Centre in …
BiographyClive Edward Butler Rice
Clive Rice was born on 23 July 1949 in Johannesburg. His education started at St. Johns College and from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later…
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
Stanley Bongani Nkosi was born on 25 November 1945 in Newcastle, Natal. When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukhatole tear Germiston in the…
BiographyElijah Barayi
Elijah Barayi was born in Lingelihle, (Cradock ) Eastern Cape, on 15th of June in 1930. He was one of eight children of working class parents. Barayi…
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
Neville Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied at…
BiographyZimasile Ngqawana
Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children,…
BiographyProfessor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu
Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South…
BiographyBarney Simon
Barney Simon, South African theatre director (born April 13, 1932, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a long-time force behind…
BiographyDr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)
Dr Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) was born in 1906 in Durban. She grew up in Grey Street, with three brothers and three sisters. Along with her…