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BiographyRev. Joseph J Doke
Reverend Doke Became acquainted with Gandhi during the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to…
BiographyJames D. Ngojo
James D. Ngojo was born in the Cape and worked as a court interpreter in Paarl. He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was…
BiographyBetty Radford
Betty Radford was arrested after the 4 August 1946 miner’s strike, together with, among others, WH Andrews and Moses Kotane. She was the editor of the Guardian…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… of the PAC which was returned, “Izwe Lethu! iAfrika!” (The Land Is Ours! Afrika!) He said the time had come when all …
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South…
BiographyChristina Jasson
Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and textile workers,…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
Suzanne (‘Zan’) Louw was born in Cape Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the…
Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli
Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli, originally a resident in the Witzieshoek Native Reserve, Harrismith District, Orange Free State [now Free State Province], was issued…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
Elijah Thomas Zondi was born on 22 October 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu. He attended the Burnside Community…
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s…
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile…
Michael Mike Matsobane
The Matsobane brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their efforts fell under the non-political YACM (Young African Christian…
BiographyLungile Kepe
Born in 1927 Kepe worked as a labourer. He took part in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the Defiance Campaign…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions…
Lennox Madikane
Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo, the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now…
PlaceSaldanha Bay
Saldanha is a seaside village that lies in the Northern most corner of Saldanha bay - the largest and deepest natural bay in the Country. The Saldanha…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
CHICAGO — Rarely are poets silenced when nations imprison them for speaking out. Mongane Wally Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the government on the importance of pre-school…
BiographyPhillmon Velangetshe Sangweni
Sangweni was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1947. He worked for many years for a carpet company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. Sangweni…
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July 1962 in District Six, Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… what the workers employed in the factories, mines or the land think or from their actions at any given moment. (ii) …
ArticleTuberculosis
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious diseases, causing more deaths than HIV/AIDS and Malaria [1] [2]…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
What is Gender-Based-Violence and who does it affect? Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) is any violent act or action directed at a person on the basis of their…
BiographyHendrik Andries Hanekom
Hendrik Andries Hanekom was born on 17 June 1893. He was the son of Hendrik Hanekom. Hanekom was educated at Beaufort West where he matriculated. He never…
BiographyBheki Zacharia Mvulane
Bheki Zacharia Mvulane died in detention on 29 March, 1985. A fellow-detainee of Mvulane said: "I saw a white policeman in Katlehong Police Station fling…
BiographyDr. Pholile Mpofu
Dr. Mpofu noticed that the field of dermatology tended to be neglected by black doctors, and felt she could have an effect in this field. She was sure that…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… ; Robin Kayser and Mohamed Adhikari, ‘“Land and Liberty!” The African People’s Democratic Union of …
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…