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BiographyM. N. Bhola
M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province. She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s…
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917) Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900 …
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish high…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father,John Knox Bokwe, in Ugie…
ArchiveResistance posters of the 1980s
Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition of posters at Roodepoort Museum, from 26th March to 31st May 1997, at Civic Centre, Christiaan de Wet…
ArchiveDebating liberalism in the 1980s
ArchiveCOSATU: challenges of the 1990s
ArchiveNew-speak for the 1990s
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
Peter Brown was born in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo game. Despite this,…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with whom he first came to…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous…
BiographyWycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi
President of the All African Convention (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in…
BiographyElliot Shabangu
Shabangu was an active organiser at the street level for the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in Dube,…
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. After…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He…
A List of women involved in the women’s struggle in South Africa, 1900-1994
ALiz AbrahamsMagdelene Malotane Adams Rachel (Ray) Alexander-SimonsRuth AlexanderPhyllis AltmanRuth Elizabeth ArndtJacqueline ArensteinZainab AsvatBFrances…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
Due to the fact that Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt with in another chronology.Boer women,…
BiographyJohn Gomas
John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of…
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
This article critically analyses the development of the Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
Levitan was born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in…
BiographyCecil Sols
Cecil Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the…
BiographyEric Miller
Eric Miller was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered…
BiographyWinston Ntshona
Wintson Ntshona was born on 6 October 1941 in Port Elizabeth. He matriculated from Newell High School where he performed in school plays with John Kani. During…