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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…
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
BiographyWilliam Mosehle Sekhukhune
Over 70 years old, William Mosehle Sekhukhune’s banishment order described him as a half-brother of Paramount Chief Sekhukhune. It was alleged that his status…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… and its white supremacist policy of apartheid in the early 1960s. He was a founding member of the Sestigers , a … in the anti-apartheid movement throughout…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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,…
PlaceTunisia
… revenue. After a brief trial period of socialism, in the 1960s, Tunisia shifted its economic doctrine toward a mixed …
BiographyLeslie Rubin
The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), then a multiracial district of the…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
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 …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
Bessie Amelia Head was born at Fort Napier Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her…
BiographyMpush Makambi
Mpush Makambi was born in 1967 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. At school, Makambi was sporty but boxing was his first love. He turned professional in 1983 with a…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… who could not be absorbed into Atteridgeville. By the 1960s, there were more than 30 people per stand. This … area’s destruction. The decreased demand for…
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,…