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BiographyJohn James Issel
John James Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town. At a tender age, he worked on a vineyard, cleaning grapes…
ArchiveNatal Midlands Black Sash Advice Office Report
Natal Midlands Black Sash Advice Office Report to National Conference on 15 March 1977 discussing worker's rights, dismissals, unemployment, pensions, case…
ArchiveReport to Black Sash on pension investigation
A report compiled by Black Sash on problems encountered by Black pensioners when collecting their pension money in Grahamstown. The report also includes…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Headquarters Report 1976
The Black Sash National Headquarters Annual Report given at National Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing National Demonstration, international visitor,…
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
Neville Wilson Curtis was born on 16 October 1947, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
ArchiveBiography of Hlabeng Sam Matlole
Biography of Hlabeng Sam Matlole. Hlabeng Sam Matlole was born in 16 June 1924 in Zone 7 Sebokeng. He was a member of VCA Zone 7 area committee treasure and he…
BiographyThomas Madikwe Manthata
Thomas Madikwe Manthata was born November 29,1939 in Soekmekaar in the Northern Transvaal.His parents had no formal education.He completed teacher trainiong…
BiographyMaria Laubser
On 14 April 1886 Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of…
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) reinstated on 3 July 1992…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living standards, prosperity and sharing in the sustained economic boom of that…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley,…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
Jeffry Dumo Baqwa was born on 24th of July 1949 in Pinetown, Natal. He was the second child and oldest son (two younger brothers were to follow). His father…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference 1965: Headquarters Report
The Black Sash National Conference: Headquarters Report on 18 October 1965, discussing: Advice Offices, raids, press support, Apartheid, magazine, publicity…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
ArchiveProgressive Federal Party, Black Sash slam planned removals
Press cutting about the Progressive Federal Party and Black Sash's condemnation of the planned removal of blacks from Kenton on Sea and Klipfontein to Glenmore.
ArchiveThe Black Sash Johannesburg Advice Office Report 1975
The Black Sash Johannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to National Conference on 10 March 1975, discussing: Aid Centre, Pass Laws, Urban Areas Act, Bantu…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference 1971: Headquarters report
Headquarter's Report for Black sash National Conference on 15 February 1971, discussing: Mailing List, Removals Campaign, Rule of Law, Plight of African Women,…
ArchiveSASO on the attack: an introduction to the So
SASO is an organization which continually probes the various areas of Black life and existence, this set of articles looks at the achievements of SASO since…
BiographyHector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima -…
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
The lengthy trial of nine student leaders from the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) ended on this date. They…