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Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… under the direction of 'separate development. 9 The 1950s and early 1960s also saw a significant level of … 1946, it failed to enter national politics until…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
In 1975, Peter Johnson, joined the ranks of the uMkhonto we Sizwe and disappeared into exile. Nearly a decade later, on the 26 October 1984, Johnson, now known…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… often uniformed, Christian female organisations. In the 1950s an important sociological study of these church groups, … record suggests. It is true that the…
BiographyHaile Selassie I
Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth name given…
BiographyThamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
"For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for me people. This is…
BiographyMimi Coertse
Mimi Coertse was South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company…
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St Peter's…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… new identities that goes beyond the rhetoric of the 1950s, in which much of our discourse is still frozen. 1 … been a preoccupation of the South African left…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
Nokukhanya Luthuli, maiden name Bhengu, (also known as MaBhengu) was the wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli. Although she never became as public a figure as her…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… country. Thus the Congress alliance as conceived in the 1950s underwent a change as the SAIC and the CPC virtually …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… A member of the African National Congress since the mid-1950s when he was a student at the University College of Fort …
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… Chief Luthuli visited her home in Orlando West in the late-1950s, arriving for supper with other ANC leaders and …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… is torpedoed by the Germans off the Tunisian coast. 1950s Emergence of political parties, who demand …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… Lebowa, which had also shown political awareness in the 1950s and 1960s.The UDF was trying to move into more rural …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… to fighting for Civil Rights in America. During the late 1950s and 1960s Black pop culture and arts exploded in the …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… nonviolent and we persisted with this during the 1950s. There has never been a more violent regime in South … simply by organising yourselves for higher…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… out. He pointedly observed that in South Africa of the 1950s there was no easy way of entry into the dominant caste … Mandela, already an outstanding leader…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… that I first encountered Denis Goldberg during the late 1950s, a decade during which Cape Town experienced … the events unfolding inside South Africa itself…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
1919 Peter Abrahams is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in March 1919 to an Ethiopian father and a Coloured mother. His father passed away when he was young…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
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…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
Fifty-three churchmen were arrested while demonstrating in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished the Black resistance…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… about Hastings Banda’s life before he rose to power in the 1950s, but he certainly had a transnational early life. He …
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… by the British coat of arms, but reinstated in the 1950s. The building was finally completed in December 1891, …