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BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Mthembu was born on 5…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaBetween 1921 and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
During the 1990-1994 period of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the first democratic elections the South African Students Organisation …
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith in the 1960s and 70s, and later used her political skills in an …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
Janet Mary Cherry was born in 1961 in Cape Town, where she was raised. Janet comes from a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… of independence which swept the African continent in the 1960s, integration schemes became an increasingly important …
BiographyReggie Williams
Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
Percy John ‘Jack’ Hodgson born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John Hodgson. An…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… support for the AAM died down until 1973. In the late 1960s, many AAM activists feared that the world had forgotten …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
Women in South Africa, since the turn of the century, have emerged as primary catalysts for protests against, and as challengers of, the apartheid regime…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade union federation based on the African…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… does not do justice to the work of the AAM during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite the lack of international … the ANC President, as Rector of Glasgow…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… poltical prisoners. 1970 When Sisulu was imprisoned in the 1960s, he began leading the first structured political …
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is South Africa's oldest University! UCT is also one of Africa's leading Teaching and Research Institutions, with a number of…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
Early Life and Teaching Career Matsie Angelina Motshekga (popularly known as Angie Motshekga) was born on 19 June 1955 in Soweto, Transvaal (now known as…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… movement to be politically defeated. Only from the 1960s, with the systematic use of torture, with mass removals …
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… the West the most sophisticated weapons - ever since the 1960s - and had boasted shortly before its defeat of its …
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… the West the most sophisticated weapons - ever since the 1960s - and had boasted shortly before its defeat of its …
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… was constructed by the Apartheid Prison authorities in the 1960s. Tuan Matarah also known as Sayed Abduraghman Motura …
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… in the country. In spite of the progress achieved in the 1960s, there were, however, a number of questions that still …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Act and the Transkei Constitution Act were passed in 1963. 1960s Proclamation No 400 and Proclamation No 413 Emergency …
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… who left the mainstream Dutch Reformed Church in the 1960s. He launched Pro Veritate, a political journal focusing …
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he … consequence of the mass arrests and bannings…