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ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940 - 1949 1940 Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr Yusuf Dadoo's role as an activist in…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1940-1948
1940 - 1948 1942 August 9, Gandhi is arrested in the early hours of the morning under the Defence of India Rules following the "Quit India" resolution and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After he became embroiled in general student dissatisfaction with boarding…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
… and became the secretary of its Pretoria branch during the 1940s. In the late 1940's, he formed and led the Dairy …
BiographyHarold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… It was only intermittently applied until the end of the 1940s.The African National Congress (ANC) through its …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
BiographyAnton Edward Rupert
… Stellenbosch, where he formed the Rembrandt Group in the 1940s, which was renamed Rothmans in 1972. His company grew …
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
… of Table Mountain. Daniels had a number of jobs in the 1940s, including work as a delivery boy in Cape Milliners, a …
BiographyJackson Mbhazima Hlungwani
Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde was born on 30 November 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
1840s John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, John Langalibalele Dube is…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
1900 7 May, Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of University College of Fort Hare.African students are prohibited from attending formerly "open…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
1970 11 June, It is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in…
BiographyNorman Catherine
Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
1940 9 October, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. 1959 Tshabalala-Msimang matriculates from Inanda Seminary. 1961 Tshabalala…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… members of the African National Congress in the late 1940s and 1950s, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews exercised a …
BiographyAnton Ndoda Xaba
… Village in Pietermaritzburg. He left school in the late 1940s and went to work in Durban. He joined the African …
BiographyRica Hodgson
… the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early 1940s, until her retirement in 1996 as secretary to the late …
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
How did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and focus It is important to understand that the focus of THIS section…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in the 1940s. In 1952 Mafekeng participated in the African National …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… Institute for the Blind in Roodepoort, in 1942. The 1940s were a decade of momentous change throughout the world. …