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BiographyEsther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed…
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…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… of white supremacy in the early 1930s. [17] In the 1960s, white women were encouraged to have babies in …
BiographyDali Tambo
Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane Tambo. When…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of…
BiographyNokuthula Orela Simelane
Nokuthula Orela Simelane was born in 1960 in Mzinoni Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga. She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula and Thembisile) of…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) Kantor…
BiographyBarbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela was born on 18 July 1941 in Johannesburg. She was the second of four children born to Pauline and Thomas Selema Masekela. Her…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… of the black consciousness literary movement of the late 1960s/early 1970s, a ‘thoroughly urban imbongi’ (p.168), …
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… in the forward areas and inside the country. Unlike in the 1960s when the Party existed in an organised form only in … As shown above, by the 1980s, with the…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… of states that emerged from nationalist movements in the 1960s. The Congo was used as a tool in the Cold War. This …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… founded and molded after the events that occurred in the 1960s and earlier, especially the Sharpeville Massacre of …
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… was challenged as a result of the Cuban revolution in the 1960s. Dubious accounts of it, particularly books by Che … operational strategy in the ANC, MK and…
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyAnthony Richard Stubbs
Anthony Richard Peter Stubbs was born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1923, and educated at Eton, at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the College of the…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key…
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
… sports ground. Owing to the construction of the N2 in the 1960s, only the dovecot has survived from the original farm …
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… South African Development Trust (SADT) purchased it in the 1960s and leased the land to the first rent paying tenants. …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… isolate white South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… movements, protests, theatre and hip-hop during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Willemse cites an alternative history … … [A]partheid and National Party…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… the almost total crushing of the mass movement by the mid-1960s, meant that the ideas and policies of radical …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… The real assault on labour tenants came in the 1950s and 1960s when the last vestiges of an independent African …
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… black colleges set up by the government in the early 1960s. In 1951 van Schoor and Leo Sihlali of CATA set up the … Committee and a leading figure in the…