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BiographyBantu Holomisa
Major General (Retired) Bantubonke (Bantu) Harrington Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyMotsamai Keyecwe Mpho
Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho was born to a peasant family in Maun Bechuanaland (now Botswana) on 3 February 1921. His family came from a non-Setswana-speaking ethnic…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 59 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South…
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann," 26…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942…
Commission of Enquiry into the Occurrences at Sharpeville (and other places) on the 21st March, 1960, Volume 2, Johannesburg, 15 June 1960
Commission of Enquiry into the Occurrences at Sharpeville (and other places) on the 21st March, 1960, Volume 1, Johannesburg, 15 June 1960
ArchiveIn 1986 there were 153,000 empty white school places: In 1986 there was a shortage of 193,000 places in black schools.
White poster with black lettering and black border. Star newspaper editorial 8th July 1987.
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…
BiographyGibson Magwaza
Gibson Magwaza, from Nongoma District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] was banished for coming into conflict with Chief Cyprian Dinizulu and the state. A document…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… 1881 1 October, Pixley ka Isaka Seme is born in Natal. 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on “The …
ArchiveEnvironment 1996
ArchivePress 1986
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994: Editorial Entries
From the book: Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards
Statements by students arrested at Morris Isaacson High School on October 22, 1976
The statement of six students arrested at Morris Isaacson High School on 22 October 1976, detailing their detention and torture
Nicolaas Claassen Rautenbach, Boer soldier who was executed in 1901 by the British
Nicolaas Claassen Rautenbach, Boer soldier who was executed in 1901 by the British because he had stolen fourteen donkeys and some ammunition from them, is…
BiographyRajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were from Kimberley in the…
BiographyLaurent Kabila
Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyBertram Dumbleton
Bertram Dumbleton was born in 1896 in George, Cape Province. He trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and the Academic Julian in Paris. During his…
BiographyElizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was born in 1866 in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were much…
BiographyRicardo Rangel
Ricardo Rangel was born on 15 February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his father was a…
BiographyEthel Ruth Prowse
Born in Queenstown in 1833, Ruth Prowse is known for her significant contribution to South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in…
BiographyDeputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Dikgang Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 47 - "Answer to Government's Apartheid Unions"…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 87 - "Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention", The…