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South African Labour history
There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the…
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…
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 …
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, …
PlaceMankweng or Turfloop
… prospects for a better future. Mankweng developed in the 1960s when the University-College of the North was …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… African affairs into which its miscalculations of the 1960s had thrust it. Several developments delivered this … at large re-emerged following the quiescence…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… outreach, UN partnership While most of the early 1960s trials were indirectly funded by Canon Collins in the … Girlie, who started compiling press clippings…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
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…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… in 1982. Calls to expel the DRC came as early as in the 1960s when the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Joost de …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the beginning of 1969 for the …
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… property. This conflict spanned over 10 years in the mid 1960s to late 1970s. The first-ever democratic election of an …
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…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
Following widespread resistance, the Native Affairs Department (NAD) was forced to abolish the Bapedi tribal authority because of a lack of support. This led…
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 …
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…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in … works dealing with student radicalism and unrest in the 1960s, encompassing…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… to support the non-racial Congress Alliance. Early in the 1960s, following the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous …
The melody of freedom
… South African jazz, which was developed further in the 1960s. Jonas Gwangwa and Hugh Masekela were members of the … Africa's borders went through a difficult…
BiographyWilliam Tilden McClain
William Tilden McClain, son of Mary and Harry McClain and an elder brother to David Jack McClain was born on 14 January 1923 in Shelbyville, Indiana. McClain…