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Percy Fisher, born in 1891 in Durham, England, miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922 miners’ strik
… England, miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922 miners’ strik …
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families…
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
… resistance element of his work implicit. From the 1960s up to the 1980s, Sihlali painted hundreds of … graphic media, along with sculptures. In the mid to…
Mama Beshenga
… During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the …
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
… military training in the Soviet Union. In the mid-1960s Matlou was co-opted into the ANC's National Executive …
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
… became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views …
BiographySamuel E. K. Mqhayi
… Mqhayi's poetry while both men were in prison in the mid-1960s (until stopped by the authorities). The South African …
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
… as the Union Council for Coloured Affairs. Later in the 1960s, discouraged by the futility of opposition to the basic …
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
… a strong organisation, but it survived into the early 1960s after Nyaose had been jailed for his part in the PAC's …
George John Golding
… orientation was toward acceptance by whites.In the early 1960s Golding founded the conservative Cape …
BiographyHarold Strachan
… led him to house-bannings and prison terms during the 1960s and 1970s. Before his arrest, he worked underground …
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
… strike and was release after paying a fine. He died in the 1960s. …
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… extensively on political missions. For a period in the mid-1960s in Britain he edited a magazine called Crisis and …
BiographyJackson Mbhazima Hlungwani
… finger. Hlungwani’s earliest extant sculptures date to the 1960s, although it is the work of the 1980s and later that …
BiographyDeton (Tito) Zungu
… Pinetown, Natal, where he worked in a dairy. Later in the 1960s he worked in Durban, first as a gardener and then as a …
BiographyMax Yergan
… including the Katanga secessionist movement of the early 1960s. In 1952 he returned to South Africa during the …
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
… creation of the Soweto Urban Bantu Council in the early 1960s. Mpanza died in 1970, but his organization, the …
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… charges were withdrawn against him a year later. In the 1960s he was forced into exile and worked in Zambia with the …
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
… in 1958. They settled in Mamelodi , Pretoria in the early 1960s. Ribeiro opened a butchery and enrolled for a BCom … made an indelible impression on the…
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
… ,who had been twice banned,had been active in the early 1960s was convicted of furthering the aims of the ANC. …
P.W. Botha, the Minister of Defence, reports to the Senate on the progress of the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of So
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to … on the progress of the Arms Industry and…
BiographyLeslie Massina
… after 1957 and he left South Africa for Swaziland in early 1960s. …
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… election. He was subject to bans from 1954 into the 1960s and was detained during the 1960 state of emergency. In …
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… for the state in numerous political trails in the 1960s and 1970s.He completed the tenth grade and joined the …
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
… intellectual”. Themba left Johannesburg in the early 1960s to teach in Swaziland. While here, Themba’s work was …
BiographyLuli Callinicos
… , a journal which was edited by Ruth First . During the 1960s, Callinicos taught English literacy to workers in the …
BiographyMweli Skota
… in Africa reissued in altered form in 1932 and in the mid-1960s). In the early 1950s he was associated with Selope …
BiographyGertrude Shope
… Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) . In the late 1960s she was provincial secretary for the FEDSAW. Shope got …
ArchiveSeeing and Being Seen: Politics, Art and The Everyday in Omar Badsha's Durban Photography, 1960s - 1980s
… Art and The Everyday in Omar Badsha's Durban Photography, 1960s - 1980s … Art and The Everyday in Omar Badsha's Durban Photography, 1960s - 1980s …
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… in the resistance to forced removals in the province in 1960s and the documentation he had collected, over the years, … violence. John Jacques William…