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ArchiveTransvaal Rural Action Committee: Vigilantes: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
Transvaal Rural Action Committee: Vigilantes: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1986 discussing rural violence, forced removals, rent…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
ArchiveThe Black Sash Durban Advice Office: Report to National Conference 1976
The Black Sash Durban Advice Office Report to National Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing Case Statistics, wages, Trade Unions, worker's rights, housing,…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
June 18, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Amandla! Magazine — A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Grahamstown 1976
Minutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Grahamstown on 16 to 18 March 1976, discussing: National and regional reports, finances, Advice Offices,…
BiographyPercy Ndithembile Konqobe
Percy Ndithembile Konqobe was born in 1939 in Nigel, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province). He completed school through standard six (now Grade Eight)…
BiographyJan Bouws
Jan Bouws, accomplished musician, composer, lecturer and author, was born in the Netherlands in Purmerend on 28 July 1902. He trained in Musicology at the…
BiographySibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu
Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the…
BiographyMampe Mosia Makhaya
Mosia Makhaya was born on 6 December 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Makhaya obtained a BA Honours degree specialising in Russian, French and Portuguese…
BiographyRosa Hope
Rosa Hope's The Old Miii was shown on the SASA 35th Annual Exhibition in 1937, and acquired by the SANG, as noted by critic Melvin Simmers (qv.), for its …
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…
BiographyBafana Cyril Dlamini
Bafana Cyril Dlamini whose nom de guerrre in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His…
BiographyAnna Tempo
Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner with her welfare work…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…
BiographyFlorence Louise Zerffi
Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the…
BiographyWillie Bester
Willie Bester was born in Montagu, Western Cape, 1956. Bester’s mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents, is a record of the second resistance movements waged by Indians in the country; the first was waged by…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
It is time for intensified mass action against the racist structure in our country. The heroic youth and masses in many parts of our country have stood against…
'Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers' organisations in South Africa", Freedom, 5,4, August-September 1946
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
William Andrew Hofmeyr, popularly known as Advocate Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa[i] . After matriculating from…
ArchiveThe African National Congress in exile: strategy and tactics 1960-1993
A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
Archibald (also known as ‘Archie’) Mafeje was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew At the beginning of October 1936 the all African…