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ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… and is very selective in their acceptance process. In the 1960s and 1970s Inanda Seminary received 1500 applicants, and … part of the African Student…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living standards, … at Fort Hare, applied to the black institutions of the 1960s…
BiographyTito Mboweni
Early LifeAfter completing high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographyRev George Wauchope
Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the…
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first…
BiographyKate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude)…
BiographyMurphy Morobe
Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and…
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a provincial and thereafter appellate judge, Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… the Arthur Bales haberdashery, which first opened in the 1960s and still does a roaring trade today in fabrics, wools …
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… the Council's Executive or Central Committee. During the 1960s the WCC created a programme to fight racism. They …
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… part of the British abstract movement of the 1950’s and 1960s. Portway’s work is often classified as abstract …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… in the armed struggle, prison and exile life Early in the 1960s, TIYC leaders like Ahmed Kathrada played a critical …
BiographyBen Wa Mokoena Arnold
Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold was born on 19 July 1942 in Johannesburg. Arnold attended school in Albertville, Newclare and Coronationville. In 1957 he studied under…
BiographyBen Turok
Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. After…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… against Apartheid from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. It was a time of hope because in the corridors of MTB, … she was barely tolerated and hardly…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… allow them to join a "normal" bourgeois society. In the 1960s again there was a change of tactics, and, in the wake …
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton,…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… he attended Orlando West High School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black People's Convention [BPC] …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… border abductions in this period, dating from the early 1960s when a number of opposition activists who had taken …
PlaceTunisia
… revenue. After a brief trial period of socialism, in the 1960s, Tunisia shifted its economic doctrine toward a mixed …
BiographyAnton Edward Rupert
Anton Edward Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree,…
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
Carel Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka was born in Johannesburg and received his early primary education there. His secondary education was at Headltown near Fort Beaufort in…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017)Thandi Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government introduced…
BiographyBusisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo, popularly known as Busi Mhlongo, was born on 28 October 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. Babla was compelled to leave…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts…