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BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
… at the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1950s, but they were jettisoned for political activism and …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
1980s: Women organise
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
Marcus Garvey, preaching the unity of all blacks, claimed that liberty would come about only through the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
… that time as its full-time secretary-general. During the 1950s, he was arrested several times in protest campaigns. He …
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… year for his figures in black and white. In the late 1950s he created the sets for King Kong, a celebrated South …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… political gatherings. The victims of this Act in the 1950s included Albert Luthuli , Moses Kotane , J.B. Marks , …
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
… and knowledgeable about black life and culture. By the mid-1950s Drum had grown as a publication and had attracted some …
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
… in the ANC as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. He actively involved organising activities of the …
BiographyMichael Gagashe Zondi
… the Swedish Lutheran mission trade school. During the late 1950s he received instruction in Fine Arts at the UN, …
BiographyJosie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen Bonny Mpama, an…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
… in politics. Jibiliza became particularly active in the 1950s as a member of African National Congress Women’s League …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… Movement was the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which struggled for equal rights for … impact on us. I had actually gone to jail in…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
… United Nations on behalf of Africans.he went quiet in the 1950s with his politically activities. In 1952 Nelson Mandela …
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… from both his grandfathers and his father. From the 1950s he recorded Zulu cultural and religious myths in words …
BiographyMargaret Singana
… January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape . In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of fame but, …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960 … dissent. After the mass based resistance campaign of the 1950s,…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
… Zulu custom, maintaining her dedication to music. By the 1950s, her music was widely recorded and played by the South …
BiographyHelen Joseph
… of Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in the 1950s. In 1955, she was one of the leaders who read out the …
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… anti-apartheid politics became her main focus. In the late 1950s, Cobden worked for the multiracial Liberal Party of …
BiographyMohammed Tikly
… in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now Polokwane, in Northern …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976,…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
… remained under banning orders continuously throughout the 1950s and worked in the underground movement. Publicly, …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… the period, for instance FEDSAW and SACTU. During the 1950s a series of boycotts, demonstrations and marches to … organisations opposed to apartheid…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
Please note that this section is detailed and we have broken it up into 3 pages: Use the page navigation on the right or bottom of the page Introduction …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
The 1970s period was a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus…