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BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
PlaceSomalia
… added to the difficulties faced by the Republic in the 1960s. The Pan-Somali struggle was not ended by the formation …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… or negative growth for several years prior to 1994. In the 1960s South Africa’s economic growth had ranked as one of the …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
Elizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole MorganAbstractElizabeth Davenport has been an integral part of the Black Sash movement from…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…
PlaceWindermere
Situated beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… SAVAGE was United States Vice-Consul in Durban in the late 1960s. Steve Biko was a frequent guest at his social events …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… in drive-in cinemas, whose popularity soared in the 1960s. (Springbok radio was the English language commercial …
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
Former South African minister of law and order, Adriaan Johannes Vlok, was born in Sutherland, Cape Province. He started his career in the department of…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… of rapid urbanisation episodically in the 1920s, 1940s and 1960s, all of which impacted dramatically on national …
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a private project undertaken to extract rubber and…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
King Goodwill Zwelithini became the eighth Zulu Monarch following the death of his father, King Cyprian in 1968 and brief regency that lasted until 1971 when…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
Set in the Roodepoort Civic Centre on Christiaan de Wet Road, the Roodepoort Museum capably covers Roodepoort’s long and diverse History, which dates back to…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
On 1 January 1972, for the first time in the history of the South African Police (SAP), policewomen were enlisted as 'full members of the force'. Two white…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. Ngoyi became politically active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a member of the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
Abstract: This paper focuses on the life on Lefifi Tladi. Tladi is an artist, poet, and jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
Five people were killed and many others injured at the University of Zululand (Ongoye) after the outbreak of political violence at the institution on 29…
English Settlement in South Africa
British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, Chief Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… in English and is payment in alcohol) was outlawed in the 1960s, there are still farmers who practice this system of …
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and his mother were…
EventGabon gains independence from France
On 17 August 1960 Gabon, the last of the four territories, which had formed French Equatorial Africa, achieved independence. Gabriel LÁƒÂƒ©on M'Ba become the…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated pass law. This forced Black people to carry…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… into personal liberty, into accepted norms of justice. The 1960s became the years of political trials, of detention … though I never became a good saleswoman…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
On 3 January 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. Sisulu, better known as Lungi, was born on 20 August…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
The Gandhi Development Trust recognises on this important occasion of the centenary of Phoenix Settlement, the outstanding contribution, dedication and devoted…
PlaceAngola
… Southern Africa up until the after the 1990s. Up until the 1960s Angolan people was coerced into travelling to South … was also opened up for investments,…