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The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… Native Representation Act of 1936, which removed the Cape Africans from the common voters' roll and gave them a … came to fruition in the Dadoo-Xuma-Naicker…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… formation of the Independent ANC Fietas, Johannesburg: 'Africans' are moved out of the south of Fietas (between 17th … born. The Transvaal Inter-Race Soccer…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… it was the first establishment of this kind for Africans. According to ‘Bantu World’, Mohl described his … very high percentage of our talent lies buried. It…
ArticleXhosa
… The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The … in 2006 it was determined that just over 7…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Celebrations of the Bicentenary of the Independence of Haiti: Port-AU-Prince, 01 January 2004 Your Excellency, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
… Accordingly, we celebrate the heroic deeds of these Africans who single-mindedly struggled for their freedom and … East Africa for slaves and ruined the…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… the problems of racial interaction. How have Indians and Africans responded to this test? Since the unfortunate riots of 1949, when Africans in Durban gave…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… of separate, communally based political representation for Africans. Allison Wessels George (A.W.G.) Champion founds the … and the Apprenticeship Act…
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton,…
BiographyKlaas Matlala
Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]…
BiographyLothar Neethling
General Lothar Paul Neethling was born in East Prussia. In 1948, the Afrikaners who were supporters of Nazi Germany during World War II came up with a plan to…
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
Pumzile Mayapi was born on 8 September 1956 in Willowvale, Eastern Cape. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in June 1980 when he was still a student…
BiographyRodger Bosch
Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural events. Over the years, he has…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… Human Rights , as well as political rights for all South Africans. With the founding of the COD, many members of the …
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… and I thought and believed that organizations led by non-Africans were more dignified than African organizations and … to me one day, with some degree of…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… and I thought and believed that organizations led by non-Africans were more dignified than African organizations and … to me one day, with some degree of…
EventWorld Health Organization publishes indictment of apartheid
… difference between the life expectancy of White South Africans and Black South Africans. Further, the infant mortality rate of Black South Africans…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… as a hero who has won the hearts of many Zimbabweans and Africans while others see him as a dictator whose rule has …
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… to live up to the hopes and needs of the poorest South Africans, and believed that it should, therefore, be changed … (various photographers). (2012). Africa…
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
John (Jack) Curtis was born on 31 August 1912 in Geelong, Australia, the third of nine children. He left school at 14 to start work and help provide for the…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… to restrict the University of Fort Hare to Xhosa speaking Africans and was to bring the university under the Department … within the ANC which rejected the…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… stings of Colour Bar and race discrimination are felt by Africans in all spheres of life—as mine workers, as municipal … workers, as farm workers, as…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… known as apartheid, had life altering impacts on all South Africans of color. With most of the country’s population … government steadily grew. In this…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… a sense that history was being made. For the first time Africans and Indians, with a few whites and coloureds were … and “Mayibuye!” and cheers from…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… country. He instantaneously became the hero of millions of Africans who rejected apartheid. At Wentworth, Natal … discouragement underlined the extent to…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old, due to the Group…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… were used to restrict the movement of non-European South Africans was in the early 1800’s. However, slaves at the Cape … went hand-in-hand with the…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… as it was the white man’s way to think and dream for the Africans, the Broederbond (1918–1990) already a state within … people of all colours to begin to…
BiographyMary Malete
Mary Malete was the president of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the first president of the South African Confederation of Trade Unions …
Mary Matilda Brown
Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform and was a campaigner…
BiographyVuyani Goniwe
Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile…