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Nqaba Memani
* some sources give the date as 1963
BiographyGreg Marinovich
The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest the…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… of South Africa (TLSA). The TLSA was formed in June 1913, with Dr Abduraghman as an important driving force in …
Reginald Mabuza
Died of natural causes in Angola on 11 November 1983
BiographyFikile Magadledla
Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, on 13 December 1952. As a young boy…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. After…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son 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…
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The…
Bonakele Mali Khana
Bonakele Mali Khana was one of 616 South Africans that died when the SS Mendi sank in 1917.
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… Cathedral, a faithful member of the Anglican community in 1913. But it was Kimberley which would undermine that very … with the main purpose to fight the…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… South Africa, 1910, land in South Africa was divided. In 1913 the government passed the Land Act. This Act decided how … be replaced with the policy of…
BiographyWilliam Ngwendu
Born 1904. Insurance agent. Joined Congress in 1937; active in 1943 anti-pass campaign and 1949 Western Areas train boycott.
ArchiveMinutes of the 50th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, 7-15 July, 1973
Minutes of the 50th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, 7-15 July, 1973. Includes resolutions…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative…
BiographyCedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued…
BiographyBennett Seitshiro
Born 1916. Factory worker. Active in the ANC since 1937; helped the 1946 African miners' strike; and a key Congress figure in Newclare.
Maduna Abednego
Maduna Abednego was released from Robben Island prison on 8 October 1973. His prison number was 1/5392. He was from Zwelithsa Township in King Williamstown.
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… who had been dispossessed of land after 19 June 1913 as a result of racially discriminatory laws or practices … be a person dispossessed of a right in land…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground…
ArchiveThe Black Sash/Die Swart Serp December 1962/January 1963 Volume 6 Number 4 National Conference Issue
A 'Public Health Nuisance': The Vitoria Street Early Morning Squatters Market, 1910-1934 by Goolam Vahed
A 'Public Health Nuisance': The Victoria Street Early Morning Squatters Market, 1910-1934 by Goolam Vahed
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.81/82 1993
ArchiveThe National and colonial question in the first five years of the Comintern, 1919-24
ArchiveLand and Liberty! the Unity Movement and the Land Question, 1933 – 1976 by Robin Kayser
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