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| B-0009169 | biography | Rick Turner | 1941-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0009268 | biography | Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0068113 | biography | Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0124272 | biography | Sunny Girja Singh | 1939-2025 | – |
| B-0149616 | biography | Adelaine Florence Hain | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0149851 | biography | Shirish Nanabhai | – | ✓ |
| B-0122626 | biography | Frank Alexander Landman | 1918-1990 | – |
| B-0008149 | biography | Bessie Amelia Head | 1937-1986 | ✓ |
| B-0068704 | biography | Madi Gray | – | ✓ |
| B-0084103 | biography | Dr. Abu Baker Asvat | 1943-1989 | ✓ |
| B-0125334 | biography | Isaac Williams Wauchope | 1852-1917 | ✓ |
| B-0009211 | biography | B J Vorster [John Vorster] | 1915-1983 | ✓ |
| B-0153080 | biography | Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize) | 20 January-1967 | ✓ |
| B-0148789 | biography | Harry Heinz Schwarz | 1924-2010 | – |
| A-0150349 | article | Nelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s | 17 Jul 2020 | – |
| B-0007855 | biography | Stephen Bantu Biko | 1946-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0145906 | biography | Cecyl Esau | 1955-2021 | ✓ |
| A-0096690 | article | The Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 | 25 Nov 2013 | – |
| A-0068539 | article | References and links: Local History | 12 Oct 2011 | – |
| A-0099427 | article | The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria | 13 May 2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008431 | biography | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 1936-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0099749 | biography | Jomo Kenyatta | – | ✓ |
| A-0016566 | article | Freedom Charter timeline 1948-1961 | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0060696 | article | 15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937 | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0059846 | article | Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960 | 31 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0068893 | article | Oliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011 | 28 Oct 2011 | – |
| A-0099579 | article | Women’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas | 10 Jun 2015 | ✓ |
| A-0064360 | article | Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989 | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0072839 | article | African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) | 19 Jan 2012 | – |
| A-0059677 | article | The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
Early LifeJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi – his praise name) was born on 12 April 1942 at Nkandla in northern Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He is the first…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
Sunny Girja Singh was born in Cato Manor (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father, Girjabaksh, came to…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
Bessie Amelia Head was born at Fort Napier Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the…
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi described Isaac Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
Overview Balthazar Johannes Vorster (also known as BJ Vorster or John Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after having served…
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…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
1959-1960: Formation, Sharpeville and Banning For many years there was tension inside the African National Congress (ANC) between those with more moderate…
References and links: Local History
Books Cameron T. (ed) 1986. An Illustrated History of South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. Carruthers V. 2000. The Magaliesberg. 2nd ed. Pretoria:…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
1948 26 May, DF Malan's National Party government follows up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate", South African Worker, 27 February 1937 The traditions of the labour movement in South Africa young…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli,…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
1900s 1917 27 October, Oliver Reginald Tambo (OR) is born in the village of Kantolo, Mbizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989 1980 January 24, The Bulgarian Communist Party awards Dadoo the Order of Georgi Dimitrov. October 20 - 22, Dr Yusuf…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political…