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BiographyJohn Gomas
… in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the Communist…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). In 1930 the … Student Organisation (DASO),…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… family moved to Elandslaagte, Northern Natal, the centre of coal mining, where they felt that there would be better … bodies. In the early 1920's PR joined…
BiographyWilliam Ngwendu
… Born 1904. Insurance agent. Joined Congress in 1937; active in 1943 anti-pass campaign and 1949 …
BiographyDumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula
… School. From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications…
Watson Mzwandile Majova
… Mzwandile Majova, Paulos Madiba, Aaron Makwe, members of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were … Reconcilaition…
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
… M. Xuma and Mr. M.M. Kotane. IT WAS DECIDED: "That minutes of the last Executive be deferred until the arrival of the … know what methods should be followed…
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
… and briefly took up law studies. He became a member of the national working committee of the Youth League and was … the international boycott movement. As an…
BiographyBennett Seitshiro
… 1937; helped the 1946 African miners' strike; and a key Congress figure in Newclare. …
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
… James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he…
BiographyBenjamin S. Rajuili
… Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare, … on…
ArchiveThe proposed structure and functioning of the Department of Political Education
… Document outlining proposed structure and functioning of the African National Congress Department of Political Education. Includes graphical representation…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… Naval Academy in Saldanha Bay in 1956, winning the Sword of Honour. In 1962 he attended a Royal Navy mine school in … continue his career in the South…
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
… and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one of the first activists of the African National Congress (ANC) to die as a guerrilla fighter. He ran a …
Opening address by CDE Nelson Mandela on the occassion of the signing of a statement of intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research and Policy formulation
… Opening address by CDE Nelson Mandela on the occassion of the signing of a statement of intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research …
Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South…
"Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… "Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi … he was elected treasurer-general of the…
Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002
… M. & Shongwe, D. (2002). Sunny Venkatruthnam , University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa
… President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa …
Speech by President Mandela at the launch of the Canadian Friends of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
… Speech by President Mandela at the launch of the Canadian Friends of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded the freedom of the city and county of Cardiff
… by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded the freedom of the city and county of Cardiff …
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly
… Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly …
Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers' Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers' Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935 …
References and links: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… References and links: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century …
BiographyGlenn Moss
… Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He … claimed, were trying to revive the…
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape . She was the second … Holy Cross that she first read about the African National…
BiographyLeslie Sonny Thuso Monnanyane
… in 1928. He was a labourer. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) during the Defiance Campaign and became a …
BiographyConny Braam
… struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This organisation offered support to the African National Congress (ANC) in exile…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the…