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BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban. She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
BiographyHarold Rubin
Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting privately with Roza…
BiographyCassim Amra
Cassim Amra was born in 1919 in Durban Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He attended Sastri College, Durban where he represented the senior cricket team. Amra was…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
BiographyRica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… membership to these organisations. By the end of the 1970s, South Africa was largely isolated from participating …
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
Ishmael Mkhabela began his political activism in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action…
BiographyBoas Moiloa
Boas Moiloa, from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal [North West Province] is described by Advocate George Bizos’ as ‘a dignified, elderly…
BiographyJoey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in Wellington, Cape…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… For the young Gerwel, heavily influenced in the 1960s and 1970s by Steve Biko's Black Consciousness Movement and the …
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of Sidney Percival Bunting and Rebecca…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… located in Chapel Street, but was moved in the early 1970s to a larger building, the old Kimberley Sanatorium – …
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… to question prevalent orthodoxies. Much later, in the late 1970s, in prison, Mandela would fall out with Govan Mbeki …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… and cup matches, and huge crowds continued well in the 1970s. In 1971, the National Professional Soccer League came …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… Thabo Mbeki served as RC assistant secretary in the early 1970s, 22 before being succeeded by Simon Makana. All of … with university administrations and…
Work In Progress
… with guerilla and sabotage activities of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The impetus for the publication came …
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in…
BiographyGeorge Mokate Ramafoku
George Mokate Ramafoku is the only person, banished post-1948, who was also banished prior to 1948. His banishment order, of 8 May 1935, notes that Chief…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… arrest and imprisonment by the Kenyan government in the 1970s. Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) One of Nigeria’s great …
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… 1974, after 14 years in power and with the pressure of the 1970s, Diori was removed from power in a military coup led by …
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… an excellent entry point for both historical reflection on 1970s South Africa and critical engagement with contemporary …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… phase out its money-losing passenger services during the 1970s, ending its shipping services altogether by 1977. …
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… in 1936, he was restored to power in 1941. However, by the 1970s, his apparent indifference to the Wollo famine resulted …