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BiographyRobert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… small and large Afrikaner capitalists, but by the late 1960s the larger capitalists dominated the organisation. By …
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… at the forefront of the revival of African writing in the 1960s. He published short stories and poems in The Classic … parties and the imprisonment of many…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…
BiographyMike Hutchings
Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in South Africa in 1980. His earliest…
BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
Mtetunzima Ganyile, from Amanikwe Location, Bizana District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was described in the motivation for his banishment as one of…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels was born on 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for the first …
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… Student campaigns against Barclays Bank, initiated in the 1960s, was carried on year after year, especially at the …
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… clandestine SACP’s leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He told the Cape Town based Russian researcher Irina …
BiographyEnos Mabuza
Enos Mabuza was born on 6 June 1939 at the Sheba Gold Mine. He attended the Sheba Mine School until Std 4 and moved to Barberton Community School until Std 6…
BiographyGeraldine Fraser-Moleketi
Geraldine Fraser was born in 1960 in Lansdowne, Cape Town. She received her primary education in Wynberg and matriculated at Livingstone High School in…
BiographyOhm Collins Chabane
Ohm Collins Chabane was born on 15 April 1960 in Xikundu Village, in Limpopo (then Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… cattle byres at KwaMsiza all but disappeared during the 1960s, and today only the Msiza one survives, albeit in a …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… Secondly, it looks at the new historiography from the 1960s to the present, particularly the use of archaeological … of change” swept through the African…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West…
BiographyIsmail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert
Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked by the apartheid state's … Africa, a campaign based on black…
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… Barlow , world-renowned South African cricketer of the 1960s. …
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… and lecturer. He became politically active in the early 1960s when he joined the African National Congress (ANC). He …
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for the first …
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
Mayatula was born in 1921 in Willowvale in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late…
BiographyGideon Mendel
Gideon Mendel was born on 31st August 1959 Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… Party (SACP) drew attention to the fact that, in the 1960s and 1970s, Chaskalson was "an underground member of the …
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… his Masters in Afrikaans and Dutch literature. In the 1960s, Brink, Ingrid Jonker and Breyten Breytenbach were part …
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… so vigorously and effectively that by the middle of the 1960s, nearly every aspect of South African life was …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… time period, located exclusively in the past (ie. roughly 1960s-1990), hides and depoliticises historical processes of … of contract laborers to leave…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
AbstractThis article traces the major segregation laws in South Africa that acted as precedent for the 1954 Native Resettlement Act. This apartheid law…
BiographyEdgar Harry Brookes
Edgar Harry Brookes was born in England on February 4th,1897 and emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the…