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BiographyHilary Mutch
Hilary Mutch (née Hilary Claire) was born on 4 November 1941 in Erith, south-east London into a Jewish family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor…
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
Alan Cormack, the youngest of three children, was born in Johannesburg in February 1924. His father was an engineer with the Post Office and his mother a…
BiographyColleen Lombard
Colleen Lombard (previously known as Colleen Rayson), an anti-apartheid activist, former political detainee, and treason trialist, was born in Wynberg, Cape…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… the great excitement and emotions of the event. Life in 1950s South Africa is also brought vividly into perspective …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive …
BiographyAlexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist…
BiographyLeo Marquard
Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and…
BiographyDr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer
Zac de Beer was born on 11 October 1928. He was the second of four children of Jean Isobel and Zacharias Johannes de Beer, a medical doctor. He attended the…
BiographyConstance Greaves
Constance Helen Greaves was born in Brighton, Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This…
BiographyRobert Gwelo Goodman
Robert Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City Hall, Cape Town (1917) is a painting that has special relevance for…
BiographyViolet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg. She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
An unassuming veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila Weinberg has suddenly died. She…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… His writing inspired the writers of the Drum generation in 1950s Sophiatown, as well as the blooming talent from Cape … attention of those who study South…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… urban landscape by forced removals beginning in the late 1950s, these social relationships powerfully shaped African … Conclusion 192 Chapter V Remaking…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… of Soviet Knowledge of Africa before 1960 In the late 1950s the Soviets, under Nikita Khruschev, began to foster … a Member of Parliament (MP), who visited…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… may have also reflected a calculated strategy. During the 1950s, the ANC downplayed the demand for African majority …
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… met Nelson Mandela. To most of her social circle in the 1950s, for a long time into the 1980s, and certainly for … women to become full members in 1943, and…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… Black musicians. Dorkay House became a musical hub of the 1950s and many artists such as Abdullah Ibrahim and Miriam …
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… the seaside resort in the south east of England. By the 1950s the building had languished and it was set to make way …
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… trade journals for the fishing industry in the early 1950s. Drawn to politics by a strong social conscience and a …
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated pass law. This forced …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… romantic culture that characterised Sophiatown in the 1950s. While Nakasa worked for the Rand Daily Mail, he is …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she began to assume a leadership role – both in the ANC …
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
[Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… from the area’s particularly fertile soils. In the 1950s the area became a popular suburb with affluent …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… them to be undisciplined and weak. In Johannesburg in the 1950s, crime was a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was the …
BiographyAllister Sparks
Allister Sparks was born to Harold Sparks and Bernice Stephen on 10 March 1933 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape. This made him a fifth generation settler, with his…