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BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
BiographyJohn Watt (Jack) Grossert
… ink, wash, pencil, charcoal. He carved in wood. 1930-33 he studied under Professor O J P Oxley at Natal …
Dan Tloome
Born in the Orange Free State, Tloome became involved in trade union work in the 1930s and joined the Communist Party. In 1941 he was chosen vice-president of…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
… Zachius Botlhoko Molete was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed …
BiographyAlbert Nzula
… undermined Nzula's capacities as a leader, and in 1930 he was shifted from the CPSA secretaryship to run the …
BiographyEmily Isabel Fern
… at the Wits Technical College Art School from 1926 to 1930. In 1933 she went to Paris, where she studied in the …
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
Richard Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… relations with the ANC were sometimes uneasy, in December 1930 he accompanied an ANC deputation to the Native affairs … An Epic of South African Native Life…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
… editorship of Professor JJ Smith. After that she is from 1930 for three years translator at the census office … she wrote: Sterker as die Noodlot (Stronger…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… he does not mention in his autobiographical notes. In 1930 he was baptised at Ohlangeni and for a short time he was …
BiographyDouglas G. Wolton
… Lenin School in Moscow. Returning to South Africa in late 1930, armed with Comintern orders to Bolshevize the CPSA, …
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
… Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the …
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended St. Matthew's…
BiographyHelen Joseph
… She then came to live in Durban , South Africa c. 1930, where she met and married dentist Billie Joseph. Her …
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Letter from Krestintern to Maphutseng Lefela, 2 February 1930 Document 85 Letter from J. Tsuene to D. Banderas, 25 March 1930 Document 86 Letter from…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… of the previous decade, and in the elective Congress of 1930 he was elected to the position of President General. …
BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… the terms of office of presidents J.T. Gumede (1927-1930) and Pixley Seme (1930-1937). In 1932 he was a member of the so-called revival …
BiographyDaniel Simon Letanka
… Shortly after Seme's election as ANC president-general in 1930, Letanka was dismissed from the Congress executive, …
BiographyAmos Langdown
… Amos Langdown was born on 7 May 1930, in Plettenberg Bay. He was involved for many years in …
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…
ArchiveMapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930 by Kalpana Hiralal
… migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930 by Kalpana Hiralal …
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…
BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
There had been periodic unrest at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province) from the 1930s onwards. During the 1950s,…
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Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract] …
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… about communism and joined the Liberal Party in 1954. In 1930 Manilal who was on a short trip to India joined the …
BiographyFranklin Kaye Kendall
… the SANG he advised on its new building, which opened in 1930. Kendall is now forgotten as an artist, but chiefly …
BiographyCaptain Lancelot Andrew Ariba
… this Colonial Mutual Life Building in Durban, which in the 1930 was the tallest building in SA. In Cape Town he was a …
BiographyBertram Dumbleton
Bertram Dumbleton was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic Julian in Paris. During his…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
… look for work in Johannesburg in the 1920s. In November 1930 together with her sister Hester, they both began work in …