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BiographyJohn James Issel
John James Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town. At a tender age, he worked on a vineyard, cleaning grapes…
BiographyBarbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela was born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg. She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. Her…
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
BiographyAhmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… the Malmesburg district and since its restoration in the 1970s, it has become a focal point for a new housing scheme …
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… and the new independent unions increased during the 1970s, particularly after a wave of worker's strikes. The … to mid-1997 . Westport: Greenwood "Lessons…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… and Mkhize continued her work against apartheid. In the 1970s, Mkhize devoted herself to the Release Mandela … "Liberation Struggles and Politics from the…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
… reframing of the poverty question by the end of the 1970s. Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… 5400 Blacks. A manufacturer of buses also operated in the 1970s. A silicon producer provided jobs for 600 people. The … it is Lebowa that is closest to the…
PlaceMamelodi
… future. This is the Mamelodi I know and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. The spirt of Mamelodi and its dynamism …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
African National Congress (ANC) security guards at Shell House killed nineteen Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members following a tip-off that IFP marchers were…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… and work in the Unfashionable Theatre (1971). During the 1970s Harwood hosted the BBC series Read All About It on …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… Family planning programme was implemented in the 1970s to distribute contraceptives freely to black women. …
ArticleThe San
The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as 'Bushmen', a term…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
BiographyBenjamin Ulenga
Benjamin (Ben) Ulenga was born in Owamboland. His father was a labourer, who from age 16 or 17 had to leave Owamboland to work on various English, Dutch,…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were…
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
BiographyJane Alexander
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Jane Alexander is known for her figurative sculptures, often appearing…
BiographySylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… Eddie was an institution builder par excellence. From the 1970s onwards Eddie was involved in setting up publications … the emergence of militant black trade…
BiographyAubrey Levin
Aubrey Levin was born in Johannesburg on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events,…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli family's …