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BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…
BiographyJoseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla
Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla…
BiographyFabian Defu Ribeiro
Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee Mothibe). His father came from…
BiographyGoolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
Pahad left India for South Africa in 1919, but returned to India with his father in 1922 to continue with his educational studies. When Dadoo came to India in…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… Caiphus Semenya. Born and raised in South Africa, by the 1960s the increase in oppressive laws created by the … the door in the U.S. entertainment scene and…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… journals. He was involved in politics dating back to the 1960s. He was detained in 1977, the same year as Steve Biko. …
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… would intensify pressure on South Africa throughout the 1960s and beyond. …
Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Alexander was born on 7 August 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, the third of six children[1]. One of her siblings was Neville Alexander…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… many Sactu leaders and members arrested during the early 1960s, and by 1965 Sactu was decimated, leading to frenetic …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… when they become independent during the period from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The Coming of Apartheid Key to …
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
Prof Brij Maharaj was born in 1957 in Merebank, south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN). His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a shop assistant at a…
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
Reginald Dudley Forde was born in Johannesburg on 20 April 1940. He completed his schooling at Clifton School in Nottingham Road and obtained three degrees at…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…
BiographyNgugi wa Thiong’o
The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on…
BiographyRichard Steele
Richard Steele was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The…
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East Pondoland who…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
BiographyCassim Amra
Cassim Amra was born in 1919 in Durban Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He attended Sastri College, Durban where he represented the senior cricket team. Amra was…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Three documents, fundamental changes that…
ArticlePoqo
… fell apart. The PAC in exile (1976-1983) In the 1960s there were conflicts in South Africa between the …
BiographyOliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland …
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… and was offered the King George V chair of history in the 1960s, which she declined. She retired in 1969. Van der …