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BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
William Andrew Hofmeyr, popularly known as Advocate Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa[i] . After matriculating from…
86. Non-racial sport
… organisations were established in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Committed to reunite the disintegrated ranks of the …
BiographySimon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a lot of money; his…
Formation and launch of the UDF
UDF launch at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s moves to form united front against apartheid were set in…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… media. Around at the time but to emerge only in the 1960s as a full-time photographer was David Goldblatt. …
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
… to remain here after freedom was granted to them from the 1960s. Today, this busiest port of Africa, this haven for …
PlaceMali
… an unfavourable climate, periodic droughts since the late 1960s, and low levels of technology. The industrial and …
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… The growth of the South African economy through the 1960s and into the early 1970s... brought about major …
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… later, and some of the other trials that followed in the 1960s, the only official gatherings representative of South …
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated…
BiographyAlex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old, due to the Group…
ArticleDrum Magazine
The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes that…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised…
Chapter X - Final word
… live by it. That was before Sharpeville, before the grim 1960s, before the suppression by force of our non-violent …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… leading figures in the organisation were arrested in the 1960s and given long sentences or death severely crippling …
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
On 29 March 1998, British Airways (BA) prohibited smoking on all flights. Other countries across the world had begun to impose the first restrictions on…
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… The growth of disability rights movements between the 1960s and the 1980s led to the mainstream comprehension of …
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… The growth of disability rights movements between the 1960s and the 1980s led to the mainstream comprehension of …
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… burial registers.The prisoners were arrested during the 1960s and sent to Robben Island during 1962 and 1963. ( link … S. (2009), ‘Forgotten for 40 years,…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
Wendy Heather Woods (neè Bruce) was born on 5 February 1941 in Mthatha (formerly Umtata), Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). An outstanding pupil in school,…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
A study of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a piece on the role of missionaries…
ArticleTswana
(seTswana [language], baTswana [people]) The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Women at the start of the 20th century
It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… details and dynamics of the coups d'état of the late 1960s are not of principal importance to this thesis, …