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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…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… shook the AAM’s relation to the Labour Party. By the late 1960s, the AAM had lost ground as other issues took centre …
BiographyMary Thipe
Mary Thipe was born in 1917* in Ramhlakoane, a village in the Matatiele district, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) near the Eastern Cape border. Later, as a young…
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…
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), …
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 …
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 …
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…
ArchiveRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
… modern jazz outfit formed in Cape Town in the early 1960s. White composer and pianist Chris McGregor joined …
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…
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…
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 …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
African National Congress (ANC) security guards at Shell House killed nineteen Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members following a tip-off that IFP marchers were…
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…
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…
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 …
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
BiographyBenjamin Ulenga
Benjamin (Ben) Ulenga was born in Owamboland. His father was a labourer, who from age 16 or 17 had to leave Owamboland to work on various English, Dutch,…
BiographyDennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were…
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil.President Lula had little…