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Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… the most important black union movement to emerge in the 1950s. One measure of the success of independent unions was … had established the huge dormitory…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… the most important black union movement to emerge in the 1950s. One measure of the success of independent unions was … had established the huge dormitory…
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… activity. Sources: South African History Online timelines. 1950s. Website: sahistory.org.za The defiance campaign. …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… and radical transformation of the ANC in the 1940s and 1950s.During their decade-long leadership of the province, … the 1940s as well as Chief Luthuli and…
BiographyMuntu Myeza
Muntu Myeza was born on 3 December 1950 to Jacob and Julia Myeza in Natal where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school…
BiographyElize Botha
Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp, West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She enrolled at the University of…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
Theo Mthembu was born in Newcastle, KwaZulu Natal on 27 February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu…
BiographyWinston Churchill Masakeng Saoli
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as Mpumalanga Province. He was the second of…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… women were engaged in production work in the 1950s, the trade unionists, like the nurses and teachers, …
Pedi
… that a rebellion took place, which was quelled in the 1950s. Later on, families would continue to practice …
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… provisional council of Katanga and towards the end of the 1950s he became president of the Belgian-supported Conakat, …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… photography was his commitment to humanity. From the late 1950s until 1966 he portrayed the everyday lives of black …
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Union concerning a ban on nuclear testing began in the mid-1950s. Officials from both nations came to believe that the …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Chapman, M., 1989. Storyteller and Journalist of the 1950s: The Text in Context. In: English in Africa. … in Michael Chapman’s Storyteller and Journalist of…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
Leo Linda Sihlali was born on 9 September 1915 in Butterworth. He went to primary school in Tarkastad where his mother worked as a teacher. On completion he…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… Frescura. The Suppression of Communism Act, passed in the 1950s gave the government the power to ban publications that …
PlaceWindermere
… in the 1940s. Researchers have indicated that, until the 1950s, few Black South Africans living in the Cape Town … Urbanisation in Cape Town: Windermere in…
BiographyPeter Jones
Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape. Jones after completing High School in 1976, he became politically…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but received private…
BiographyVirginia Engel
Virginia Engel was born on 27 April 1950 in Cape Town. She married Desmond Engel and they have three daughters, Tania, Kim and Liza. Her exposure to apartheid…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
Baruch Hirson, named after his late grandfather, was born on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician…
ArticleEOAN Group
The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and educational centre and cultural association that offered music…
South African Labour history
There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… The period is marked by the introduction in the early 1950s of a series of landmark pieces of legislation, …
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… to the rise of Black Consciousness, particularly in the 1950s, there had been inter-racial cooperation, with blacks … around him, blacks and whites alike,…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - … for a revolutionary road. More decisively than the 1950s, however, the last ten…
PlaceKwaMashu
… implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act during the 1950s. The Group Areas Act was a system used by the Apartheid … of the Act. Durban’s rapid…