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| R-0123746 | archive | What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017 | 18 Jul 2017 | – |
| A-0123626 | article | EOAN Group | 28 Jun 2017 | ✓ |
| E-0011414 | event | German South West Africa is put under South African administration | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| E-0011317 | event | Harry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0123540 | biography | Francis Wilson | 1939-2022 | – |
| B-0066410 | biography | Ruth Alexander | 1888-1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008178 | biography | Hassan Howa | 1922-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0008146 | biography | Abdool Kader Hassim | 1934-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008233 | biography | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0125716 | biography | Ronald (Ronnie) Britten | 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0120967 | biography | Wangari Maathai | 1940-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0148002 | biography | Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa | 1924-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0148784 | biography | Oupa Ronald Madondo | 1948-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0150021 | biography | Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela | 1960-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0148782 | biography | Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu | 1920-1991 | ✓ |
| R-0151013 | archive | Webinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank | 21 Jul 2021 | – |
| B-0008516 | biography | Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki | 1942 | – |
| A-0016519 | article | The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement | 20 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0099027 | archive | Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU | 10 Mar 2015 | – |
| A-0062707 | article | Xhosa | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
| B-0149851 | biography | Shirish Nanabhai | – | ✓ |
| B-0151969 | biography | Govin Reddy | 1943-2017 | ✓ |
| P-0096805 | place | Umlazi | 7 Jan 2014 | ✓ |
| B-0008789 | biography | Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo | 1903-1957 | – |
| B-0008304 | biography | Potlako Leballo | – | – |
| B-0149215 | biography | Winston Field | – | ✓ |
| B-0141668 | biography | Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty | 1929-2000 | ✓ |
| B-0149326 | biography | Alois Mate | – | ✓ |
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… East Rand, where gold had been discovered in 1887. By the 1940s, his birthplace of Benoni was a bustling, relatively …
ArticleEOAN Group
The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and educational centre and cultural association that offered music…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… in the country, especially in the south.Since the late 1940s the South West Africa (SWA) issue was debated year …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in Kimberley on 28 October 1908 to Ernest Oppenheimer and Mary Lina Pollock. Oppenheimer completed his primary education…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, later to…
BiographyWangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. Maathai is internationally renowned for her unrelenting efforts in…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
Oupa Ronald Madondo (known as MK Scorpion) was born on 20 May 1948 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals…
BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. It…
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her Standard Six primary…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… black women leaders. Based in Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s, she was an outspoken, independent voice in the Party …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… than was the case in the 1950s. But if, already in the 1940s, 158,000 black workers could be organised in the CNETU, …
ArticleXhosa
… in South Africa's gold mines. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans. In …
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
PlaceUmlazi
… Map The formation of the Umlazi Township In the early 1940s the government had plans to convert the Umlazi mission … of the Group Areas Act in Durban…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange Free…
Potlako Leballo
He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and…
BiographyWinston Field
Winston Field was born on 6 June 1904, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom, where he was brought up. He moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1921. He…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…