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| B-0150379 | biography | Lettie Malindi | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0151905 | biography | Essop Goolam Pahad | 1939-2023 | ✓ |
| R-0125144 | archive | Tribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker | 4 Jul 2018 | – |
| U-0124554 | event | Rethinking the William Fehr Collection | 4 Jan 2018 | – |
| E-0087609 | event | New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa | 5 Jul 2012 | ✓ |
| E-0012894 | event | Demonstrators strip to deter bulldozers | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0068704 | biography | Madi Gray | – | ✓ |
| A-0065336 | article | Anti-Pass Campaign | 29 Jun 2011 | – |
| B-0149494 | biography | Charles W H Kohler | 1862-1952 | ✓ |
| B-0151969 | biography | Govin Reddy | 1943-2017 | ✓ |
| A-0013837 | article | A growing urban African population | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0007917 | biography | Margaret Roach Killie Campbell | 1881-1965 | ✓ |
| E-0098210 | event | FEDSAW Western Cape Region launched | 27 Aug 2014 | ✓ |
| E-0011458 | event | Gifted writer and actor William Modisane is born | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0094704 | article | Insurrections Ensemble | 28 Jan 2013 | – |
| B-0123473 | biography | Esmé Berman | – | – |
| B-0007894 | biography | Yvonne Bryceland | 1925-1992 | ✓ |
| B-0008523 | biography | Tito Mboweni | 1959-2024 | ✓ |
| B-0008479 | biography | Johannes Maswanganyi | 1948 | – |
| B-0065257 | biography | Rev George Wauchope | unknown-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0067467 | biography | Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0064851 | biography | Ian Mkhize | 1941-2011 | – |
| B-0008849 | biography | Kate O’Regan | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0096314 | biography | Penelope Jane Dunlop | 1960 | ✓ |
| B-0008647 | biography | Murphy Morobe | 1956 | – |
| B-0008278 | biography | Johann Christiaan Kriegler | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0007912 | biography | Ismail Ahmed Cachalia | 1908-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0149450 | biography | S .G. Sekano Ntoane | 1904-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0008356 | biography | Edward Clark Churchill Mace | 1863-1928 | – |
| B-0008082 | biography | Leo Rbc Francois | 1870-1938 | – |
BiographyLettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a railway worker from the…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first … various political cum educational organisations in the 1950s, such as the South West…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
… at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the collection comprises historical …
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… sanctions against South Africa dates back to the late 1950s. In 1959, the Anti-Apartheid Movement which played a …
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… residents to be humiliated and forced to relocate - in the 1950s an event of the same nature saw Sophiatown residents …
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… people had become disillusioned with the ANC by the late 1950s, the PAC claimed, it was because they had seen time and … ANC was relatively weak and had made…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association 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…
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
Margaret Roach Campbell (Killie Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate,…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against apartheid …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… short story Requiem for Sophiatown (destroyed in the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… resistance providing textured renditions of the 1940s and 1950s compositions. He is a remarkable composer in his own …
Esmé Berman
Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and…
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
Actress Yvonne Bryceland, née Heilbuth, was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian before her theatre debut in Stage Door…
BiographyTito Mboweni
Early LifeAfter completing high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographyRev George Wauchope
Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the…
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first…
BiographyIan Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in…
BiographyKate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude)…
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
Penelope Jane Dunlop (P.J. Powers) was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 16 July 1960. She chose PJ Powers as her stage name using her initials and the name…
BiographyMurphy Morobe
Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and…
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a provincial and thereafter appellate judge, Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
S.G. Sekano Ntoane was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria. He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran…
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…
BiographyLeo Rbc Francois
Leo Francois Rbc was born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the…