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ArticleZulu
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number…
ArticleThe San
… reflected in the rock art of the later Stone Age. In the 1950s, several thousand San people were still hunting large …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s Congress activists had built, if not…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, later to…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… as a native reserve, with an area that in the late 1950s was estimated at 33,300 km2. The name is originally …
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by boycotts, strikes …
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… labour. [11] The Growth of Local Industry By the early 1950s, impetus grew for the removal of Makweteng. The Group … were difficult on the mine; strikes…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, born Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah on 21 September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
Dulcie Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was born on the 20th August 1935 in Royal rd, Maitland and grew up on the…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… Afrikaans. Although this policy was on the books from the 1950s, the government insisted on its implementation from the …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… been an integral part of the Black Sash movement from the 1950s to today, when she continues to promote equality in …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… 1950- 1970 A mini population boom began in the 1950s and 60s, and the White population increased from 2186 …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… democratic resistance to the apartheid state in the 1950s. On 6 April 1952 while white South Africans celebrated …
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was born in Bloemfontein on 25 September 1969 to Ewie and San-Marie Cronje. He attended Grey College in Bloemfontein, a…
The melody of freedom
… until Monday morning. The Jazz Maniacs stood well into the 1950s when mbaqanga became popular and the band could not … was no luxury, because it was not…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933, the family immigrated…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… cusp of rising resistance against Apartheid from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. It was a time of hope because in …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… World War II. He became a member of the NP cabinet in the 1950s. In 1953 he was elected to Parliament as member for …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance In 1981, a meeting was held in …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… close to her heart for the rest of her life. [3] In the 1950s she married Amos Mswane, and they had four children. … Sheldon, "Liberation Struggles and…