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BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… black middle class stifled since the Native Land Act in 1913 and its post-1948 legislative extension. The strategy …
BiographyJopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
Jopie Fourie was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout and dispatch rider during the South African War, and was wounded and captured in an…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
Trevor Manuel was born 31 January,1956 in Kensington, Cape Town. His father, Abraham Manuel, worked for the Cape Town City Council.Manuel attended Harold…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
Advocate Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been…
BiographyFred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew PLANS FOR 1944 "WE meet at a time when one of the…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… 11 December, Consecration of the Rally Street Synagogue. 1913 Peak of second ostrich boom in the Albany. 28 July, Port …
BiographyThamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali
Jali was born Durban. He is a painter, sculptor and a graphic artist who studied at the Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, 1981-1982. He studied ceramics at the Natal…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… that the Immigrants Regulation Act was passed on June 14 1913. The Act put an end to Indian immigration and restricted …
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
January 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Durban Strikes and the emergence of a new wave of independent non-racial trade unions. This was…
Archive‘Fate Comes to the Mission Schools’: Fire at Bethel, 1953 by Linda M. Chisholm
A History of the Tramway Union in Cape Town 1918 - 1945 by Christopher Giffard
ArchiveInside Indian Indenture: A South African Story, 1860–1914 by Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed
ArchiveCampaign against Passes in the Transvaal in 1919 by E. S. Reddy, 04 March 2012
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.5 1953
Speech by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Liberation Committee, Arusha, 10 February 1983
”Mr X. Tells of Bomb Planning by Rivonia Men”, Pretoria News, 11 December 1963
Hand written court docket, listing the 10 Rivonia Trial accused. 30 December 1963
Foundation Of The African National Congress: A Report In Indian Opinion, 29 July 1911
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