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Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… and was vice-captain of his rugby team. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was the captain of his university …
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…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
… The Three Jazzolomos and later The Jazz Dazzlers in the 1960s. The Jazz Dazzlers was previously known as the Shanty …
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time…
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
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
1960 21 March, In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
On 30 March 1960, Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to the police headquarters…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and attend formal learning facilities such…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane, Vella…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… three people or it'd be an illegal gathering”. “In the 1960s our union was the hardest hit of all the unions because …
Esmé Berman
… Hodgins who worked as the assistant editor. Since the 1960s Berman also worked as a freelance writer and …
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
… After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act in the late 1960s , actor Ben Kingsley said it was one of the best …
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
… and lectured on the use of photography in medicine. In the 1960s, he invented the first instantaneous X-ray, which …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… into the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid 1960s, his first assignment was to concentrate on mobilising …
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… for some years while living in Durban in the late 1960s before returning to politics when she founded the …
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
John David Rheinallt Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… Beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums, 1920s to 1960s. The resonances of the old location photographic …
BiographyWilliam Khanyile
… At a young age, around the early 1960s, William Khanyile began selling the New Age newspaper …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1960-1969 1960 19 February, Dr Monty Naicker called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) organised an …
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
… meted by prison warders particularly in the early 1960s. He was placed in the Landbou Span (agriculture team) …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in full swing. This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy …
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…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… Africa. She never considered going into exile but in the 1960s and 1970’s she lectured at universities in the United …
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…