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4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… based on the MK one to those recruited. 24 In the late 1960s, despite heavy repression by the state, underground … charges’. 27 In this period from the early…
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…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… Blue Notes embody the beauty of South African jazz in the 1960s, and the dynamics of its struggles during and against … generation that lived through the…
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 …
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
Dawie de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser…
BiographyElize Botha
Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp, West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She enrolled at the University of…
BiographyHermione Stephanie Lombard Faure
Stephanie Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
Florence Mophosho was born in 1921 Alexander Township, Johannesburg. She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified teacher, but…
BiographyDonald James Woods
Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), into the Mhinga traditional royal…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…
BiographyJackson (Balisile)) Nkosiyane
Jackson (Balisile) Nkosiyane, Twalimfene Joyi, Bangilizwe Joyi and McGregor Mgolombane were all banished on 30 May 1958 from Thembuland, Umtata District, …
BiographyKgalabi Jafta Masemola
Kgalabi Jafta Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many others, was born at Bon Accord near Pretoria on 12 December 1931. He…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… By the time he turned to photography for a living in the 1960s, Johannesburg, the gold rush capital, had more than two … in his studies of Some Afrikaners,…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
Oupa Ronald Madondo (known as MK Scorpion) was born on 20 May 1948 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… joined the industrial workforce in large numbers. By the 1960s, the bulk of the productive workers in South Africa …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… movement, particularly between the 1940s and the 1960s. Although the CPSA had strong transnational influences … the flight of South African activists into…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… for Civil Rights in America. During the late 1950s and 1960s Black pop culture and arts exploded in the United …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… in the whites-only Parliament of South Africa. During the 1960s, as the European powers granted independence to their …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… years when the struggle regained momentum. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he continued to do underground work of …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… AND ARABS INTENSIFY TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE 1960s? Carefully read Sources 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D and then …
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… repression, to develop an external mission. By the mid-1960s the political and labour movements had been …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… support to various liberation movements from the early 1960s onwards. Based at a large house at 10 Kropotkina …
BiographyJoel Mabi Lengisi
Joel Mabi Lengisi was born in 1920 at the Sitholeni Location, Engcobo, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], Lengisi later moved to East London African…
BiographyRonald Vernie Dellums
Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on 24 November 1935 in Oakland, California. Dellums’ parents were Willa Terry Dellums (mother) and Vernie Dellums (father). His…
BiographyRonald Vernie Dellums
Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on 24 November 1935 in Oakland, California. Dellums’ parents were Willa Terry Dellums (mother) and Vernie Dellums (father). His…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… as early as 1908 in the southeastern corner of Cameroon. 1960s An HIV viral variant known as HIV-2 is found in West … that Noe contracted HIV/AIDS in Africa…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…