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ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
The 1970s period was a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while at high school. She studied for two years at a …
BiographyAlois Mate
… However, on the contrary, resistance continued into the 1950s. Mate's order was revoked on 8 April 1964, the reason …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… to strengthen their apartheid policies. From the early 1950s, Lamontville was a nursery and a microcosm of the …
BiographyBoas Moiloa
… , was a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s. He was from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico …
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline and struggling to avert state repression. Congress-inspired traditions were also re…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… (SACP) represented several anti-apartheid figures in the 1950s and 1960s in political cases in court and helped plan …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
The Liberation Struggle documents: 1990s
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
… Movement of South Africa in which he became active in the 1950s. From 1959, he held various positions such as Area …
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
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…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… the next fifty-five years. They set up home in the late 1950s in Palmboom Road, Newlands, Cape Town and lived there … academic of note, having lectured on…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1950-1959 1950 A.K.M. Docrat, a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act. He was jailed for thirty…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… in the trade union and anti-apartheid movement during the 1950s. After the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), he …
BiographyElijah Barayi
… and an able speaker. He was arrested in the early 1950s for his participation in the Defiance campaign .He was …
BiographyBarney Simon
… working under director Joan Littlewood in London in the 1950s. After returning to Johannesburg, he supported himself …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… across the Eastern Cape during the increasingly repressive 1950s. Mini was tasked by the South African Congress of Trade … Stevedoring and Dockworkers' Union…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
1970 11 June, It is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… of the African National Congress in the late 1940s and 1950s, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews exercised a major …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of University College of Fort Hare.African students are prohibited from attending formerly "open…
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
… which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. In 1958 Jassat was arrested with twenty-eight other …
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
… members of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s. Manzini herself became active politically during high …
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
… Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe was president of the Cape ANC and chief …
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… soon promoted to the branch executive. During the early 1950s a large majority of South African activists were banned …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…