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| P-0153307 | place | Grassy Park, Cape Town | 3 Feb 2026 | ✓ |
| B-0096208 | biography | Vernon Celliers Berrange | 1900-1972 | – |
| R-0072471 | archive | 4. Conclusion | 16 Jan 2012 | – |
| A-0064884 | article | History of elections in South Africa | 4 May 2011 | – |
| A-0059662 | article | Garment Workers Union (GWU) | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0150858 | biography | Diana Ferrus | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0150302 | biography | Arthur Nuthall Fula | 1908-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0149551 | biography | Ashley La Grange | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0149587 | biography | Bongani Mnguni | 1953-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0150385 | biography | Terry Bell | 1942 | ✓ |
| A-0099571 | article | The Youth Struggle | 8 Jun 2015 | ✓ |
| P-0016785 | place | Chad | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| E-0012455 | event | The first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0124457 | biography | Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender) | 1934-2021 | – |
| B-0068475 | biography | Maniben Sita | 1926-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0080864 | biography | Mary Moodley | 1913-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0007870 | biography | David Wilcox Bopape | 1915-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0122124 | biography | Jane Gool | 1902-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0007909 | biography | Amina Cachalia | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008038 | biography | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim | 1937-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0008230 | biography | Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils | 1936-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008327 | biography | Norman Levy | 1929-2021 | – |
| B-0068699 | biography | Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo | 1955-1991 | – |
| E-0012656 | event | Kaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0065371 | article | Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA) | 30 Jun 2011 | – |
| R-0124649 | archive | Remembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018 | 24 Jan 2018 | – |
| A-0099460 | article | 50 Facts on Africa | 20 May 2015 | – |
| B-0149616 | biography | Adelaine Florence Hain | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0084103 | biography | Dr. Abu Baker Asvat | 1943-1989 | ✓ |
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
… farm Montagu's Gift, north of Zeekoevlei , in the early 1900s. In those days this was all rural farm land but by 1920 …
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
Advocate Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been…
4. Conclusion
The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town officials continued to…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
Introduction The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, Transvaal and…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice (née Stuurman) Fula –…
BiographyAshley La Grange
"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
PlaceChad
Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa[i]. Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for where the human species originated[ii]. The area which is now…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
On 5 June 1981, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) reported that 5 gay men in California were suffering from a rare pneumonia (Pneumocystis…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His…
BiographyManiben Sita
Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, (Marabastad, Pretoria) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly politically-active family…
BiographyMary Moodley
Mary Moodley, or Aunty Mary as she was known, was born on 14 March 1914 in Jaggersfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the…
BiographyJane Gool
Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from India,…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
Amina Cachalia (née Asvat) was born on 28 June 1930, Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited Durban, to visit his…
BiographyNorman Levy
Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and coloured…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…