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ArchiveSouth Africa: your choice in black and white
… poster with sepia photograph of white soldiers keeping back black africans. Issued by International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Campaign against…
ArchiveSave their lives
… White poster with back lettering. Artwork of rope noose and six heads. Chain border. List of six names of people sentenced to death for treason. Issued by…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
… mother, who was expecting her second child. They returned to Limpopo where his brother was also born. Mafela’s family moved to Kliptown, south of…
BiographyTheophilus Dymond Field
… the most English of painting mediums. He first came to SA as an opera singer, and settled in Fish Hoek. Between … Namibia and the main theatre of the War in…
BiographyBarend Jacobus Du Plessis
… du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of … of the Students’ Representative Council,…
Dan Tloome
… of the national ANC. In 1947 he traveled to Dakar with J. B. Marks to attend an All-African Trader Union Conference sponsored by … of the ANC in December…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
… significant in his life particularly since he was forced to change schools. The family moved to Primose Park near Mannenberg were they were resettled. In … a…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
… in 1953, he taught briefly in the Free State, then moved to Johannesburg and took up law studies. He joined the circle … when the PAC was formed in 1959…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
… and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to his last day. He threw himself into the work of linking … , Wilton Mkwayi and Dennis Goldberg he…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… and later as a factory worker. In the late 1940s he helped to organise the African Food and Canning Workers' Union and … of the Cape ANC in a disputed…
BiographyChris van Wyk
… in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the … by literature from a very young age. van Wyk rose to fame…
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
… removed in terms of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her family. During the next several years, … decreed that classes throughout South…
ArchiveAfrican National Congress (SA) International Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 1 - 4 December 1987
… Report back notes from an ANC conference with the theme, Peoples of … Against Apartheid for a Democratic South Africa, in Arusha to ANC members in Dar es…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
… Party (NP), and Member of Parliament for Vasco from 1953 to 1961. The De Villiers family moved to Caledon and after his first year of schooling they moved…
BiographyElsie Nair
… a clothing factory, and worked part-time as a dressmaker to supplement her income. She joined the Progressive Garment … of the South African Trade Unions …
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
… When the group disbanded only a year later she went on to lead the rock band Hotline . The band lasted for seven … biggest hits of the 1980s. The band…
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
… started primary schooling in the Villageboard and went on to attend the Saint Patrick Catholic School in the North-end Port Elizabeth . When her father…
Chapter 8
… its discussions revolved was the question of unity. It had to deal first with the unity within the African section … We sympathise with the workers who were…
BiographyEmile Maurice
… of Art, University of Cape Town in 1977 and then went to the USA where he obtained his MA graduate degree in art … African National Gallery (SANG). Emile…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Coloured Advisory Council.Gow was sent after high school to the United State were he earned degrees at Wilberforce and … army in World War One and fought…
BiographyGreenwood Dumisa Ngotyana
… and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came to Cape Town as a labourer, worked as a garage attendant, and … In 1953 he spent six months in…
BiographyCharles Kwelemthini Sakwe
… the court of the Gcaleka paramount chief, he was elected to the district council of Idutywa, and later, at the age of 29, he was appointed to the Transkeian…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … ABSTRACT TOPIC: Telling Our Own Stories – Bringing to Life of a…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference In … (1973) the British Trade Union Congress (TUC) began to engage much…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… Convention" in Johannesburg. The Convention was called to protest the Suppression of Communism bill and a ban … stay at home on 1st of May as undermining…
BiographyJustice Zac Yacoob
… Durban's Arthur Blaxall School for the Blind from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he studied for a BA and from 1970 to 1972, completed an LLB at the…
BiographyZola Budd
… Africa, the world track and field establishment refused to recognise the record. However, she was later to claim the world record officially, while…
BiographyMizream Maseko
… identification of the sitter as a Xhosa male impossible to determine. Several monochromatic watercolours in sepia are … techniques ranging from pale washes…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
… studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 with her husband, Dr Hobart Kay, finally … also joined SASA in early 1919, and sent…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
… (Greenberg)[i] and has taught five of her daughters to make pottery, Bongi Nala (eldest, age 40), Jabulani (Jabu) … pot and shards (AD 600-800) while…