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Mahomed “Chota” Motala
Mahomed Motala was born in Dundee on 14 June 1921. In 1938 Motala matriculated at Sastri College and studied medicine in Bombay, India, from 1939. It was at…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many black South Africans…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), to a middle class Indian family.[i] From an early age Jana…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
… Durban in 1948 and another in Malvern, Durban in the midÂ1950s. However, both medical practices had to be closed as …
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographyDr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper
Sathasivian “Saths” Cooper was born on 11 December 1950 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… that African women did not have to carry passes until the 1950s, and were thus not as easily controlled as African men. …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… Frescura. The Suppression of Communism Act, passed in the 1950s gave the government the power to ban publications that …
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… of non-white residents in Claremont that began in the 1950s, designating the area a whites-only residential area. …
PlaceNyanga Township
… responsible for the removals in the Cape during the 1950s and 1960s. In mid-1952 the municipalities of Goodwood , …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… and took part in many of the resistance campaigns of the 1950s. The state, sensing the threat that an organised Black …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… had limited participation in political activities of the 1950s. It openly threw its support behind the demonstrations …
BiographyBettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her mother had passed…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a…
4. Conclusion
The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town officials continued to…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… and it became the biggest Indian political rally since the 1950s. This was followed by mass leafleting, press statements …
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… laid a firm foundation for the Congress Alliance of the 1950s and the United Democratic Front (UDF), the broad …
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… and it became the biggest Indian political rally since the 1950s. This was followed by mass leafleting, press statements …
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… to the banners of reason and progress (52). From the early 1950s “such a will had become hegemonic at the level of the …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… an alliance of the anti-apartheid forces of the 1950s composed of the ANC, the SAIC, the South African …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… the heritage of struggle in black sport before the 1950s. It laid the foundation from which the anti-apartheid … for racial integration, equality, and human…
BiographyZolile Malindi
Zolile Malindi was born on 16th of May in 1924 Gqogqora village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
While African elephants have been hunted for several centuries, the exploitation of elephant herds on a massive scale began in the 1970s. Organized gangs of…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… often uniformed, Christian female organisations. In the 1950s an important sociological study of these church groups, … record suggests. It is true that the…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
ArticleA history of Soweto
The consequence of this promising wealth was that a great number of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck…