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The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour…
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… which kept him at work for the greater part of the 1960s. Later his reputation was such that that he could rely …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… history, breaking through the cloud of repression of the 1960s. Phil Bonner, in Chapter 2, gives particular insights …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… alternative press: voices of protest and resistance, 1880s-1960s >, (Cambridge University Press), pp.83-98.|Makhanda, L, …
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
Pik Botha was born on 27 April 1932 in Rustenburg, Transvaal.His father was a school principal. Pik as he is affectionately known attended the Hoer Volkskool,…
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
Father Trevor Huddleston was born on 15 June 1913 in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England to Ernest Huddleston and his wife. Soon after, the family moved to Golders…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… of Things Then is a biography of South Africa from the 1960s until 1990. It embodies an overview of the changing and …
4. Conclusion
The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town officials continued to…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… and racism. State repression intensified in the 1960s while resistance attempts and protests failed. By the …
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
John (Jack) Curtis was born on 31 August 1912 in Geelong, Australia, the third of nine children. He left school at 14 to start work and help provide for the…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
Introduction The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, Transvaal and…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… organisations and the harsh repression of the early 1960s. As Brooks and Brickhill put it, the activists of SASO … had also not witnessed the harsh…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… being condemned by African Mothers' Union workers in the 1960s: 'they cannot read or write, the only thing they can do …
PlaceLeliefontein
… the devastating 1902: ' Leliefontein Massacre '. From the 1960s until 2016, Leliefontein was a major helicopter Base …
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
Abdul Samad Minty was born on 31 October 1933 in Hartebeesfontein, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). Minty grew up in Johannesburg where he…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: This essay discusses…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His…
BiographyManiben Sita
Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, (Marabastad, Pretoria) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly politically-active family…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
Amina Cachalia (née Asvat) was born on 28 June 1930, Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the…
BiographyJane Gool
Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from India,…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… stew. Ernest Cole was a black man who did a book in the 1960s on what it meant to be a black man in South Africa. It …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
Ron Press was born in 1929. His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 years. He…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
On 5 June 1981, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) reported that 5 gay men in California were suffering from a rare pneumonia (Pneumocystis…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Conference on Fifty years since the 1973 Durban strikes Durban…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
The Reverend Theo Kotze was born at the Heads in Knysna, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 19 May 1920.Kotze came from Afrikaaner stock. His father, a lawyer…