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Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… divisions. These policies were at their height during the 1960s and 1970s. influx control ”” (under apartheid) the …
BiographyEphraim Chaka
Ephraim Chaka was born in 1924. His family came from Ladybrand, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He was married to Mirriam Chaka and together…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… the struggle of the Palestinian people. In the 1960s and 1970s, Parry’s distinctive formation as a literary …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… isolate white South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… Roberto, secured funding from Israel after visits in the 1960s, and FNLA troops were sent to Israel for training. …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… Coloured people from the voters’ roll. Throughout the 1960s Bibi maintained some level of political work, mainly … vulnerable to government harassment during…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… of support from newly independent African countries in the 1960s, by the mid-1970s the ANC was on the ascendancy, … is significant that the growth of the ANC…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… leaves little doubt that Mandela was at a point in the 1960s (between 1960 and 1962) an official member of the … was in control during the murky exile…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… Whites developed a system of supremacy that by the 1960s had become the most elaborate system of racial … decolonisation. The first, taking place mostly in…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… reasons for these removals. First, during the 1950s and 1960s, large-scale removals of Africans, Indians, and …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… soon changed in the post- Sharpeville period of the early 1960s, when the imprisonment of political detainees and …
BiographySamir Amin
Samir Amin was a prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker. His work on capitalism, colonialism and (under)development was one of the most important…
BiographyBarend Jacobus Du Plessis
Barend Jacobus du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
… it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African …
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… Chinese socialism seemed to be consolidating with its late 1960s ‘Cultural Revolution’, socialist Chile under Allende …
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
Jayaseelen “Jay” Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo…
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto. He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high school education at…
BiographyJannie “Jan Bek” Momberg
Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. He later studied at Stellenbosch University…
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb an. In 1961 his family was…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
Isaac Bangani Tabata (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After attending Fort…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
Dr. Silas Modiri Molema (Silas Modiri) was born in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
Thenjiwe Mtintso, was born on 7 November 1950 in Soweto, Johannesburg where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… June 1959. The proliferation of beerhalls early in the 1960s, followed by the lifting of prohibitions relating to … Native Resettlement Board (NRB). For the…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… and was a member of the Zulu Royal Dynasty. In the early 1960s he was elected president of the World Council of …