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BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop of…
BiographyMartin Lutuli
Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the…
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was…
ArchiveOxford : 1960s - 80s : State repression intensifies
Brown, red and black poster. Photograph of hundreds of rope nooses. Quote from Max Coleman. Photographs of Ahmed Timol, Neil Aggett who died in detention and…
ArchiveOxford: 1990s: the move to democracy
Brown, black, red and white poster. Photograph of De Klerk, Mandela and Mbeki, past, present and future presidents, with hands held high at Mandela's…
ArchiveANC Youth League in the 1990s
Paper following discussion between South African Youth Congress and the African National Congress Youth Section Secretariat regarding launching the youth…
ArchiveA study of strikes in the 1970s
ArchiveOxford: 1970s: the youth take charge
Brown, red and black poster. Large photograph of the Soweto Uprising in June 1976. Quote from Nelson Mandela. Short bits of history and photographs from 1970…
Liberation Struggle in South Africa 1950s
BiographyRobert Edward Jansen
Legendary Cape Town jazz musician, Robert Edward Jansen was born on 5 August 1949. The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of South Africa’s most…
BiographyC. S. Ramohanoe
C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal African National Congress (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
Jaydew Nasib Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was…
BiographyGana Makabeni
Gana Makabeni was born in the Transkei. He attended a Communist night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the…
Documents, speeches and articles relating to From Union to South African Republic 1900-1976
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The Â…
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
Dr Oshadi Mangena was born in a toilet on 12 June 1931 when her father’s employer refused to allow her mother to wait for an ambulance inside her home, as she…
BiographyNell Kaye
Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade unionist, and…
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
James Randolph Vigne was born in 1928 in Kimberley and grew up in Port-Elizabeth. He went to school at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown where he enjoyed a…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
Jordan Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in Ladysmith, he entered…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
George John Golding
George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher and school principal in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg…
BiographyJ. E. Malepe
A leader of the African National Congress Youth League during the 1940s, he was elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in…