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BiographyArthur Goldreich
… Young Painter Award the following year for his figures in black and white. In the late 1950s he created the sets for …
BiographyHarold Rubin
… and formed his own quartet. The quartet snuck into the black township, Sophiatown, and made music with saxophonist …
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
… prison. After the arrival of political prisoner from the Black Consciousness Movement , he successfully recruited some …
BiographyVesta Smith
… Smith also served on the Executive Committee of the Black People’s Convention (BPC). She was denied a passport by … Congress, member of the Executive…
BiographyRichard Steele
… attending protest meetings. The violence and anger in both Black people and the South African Defence Force (SADF) …
BiographyIsaiah Stein
… club, Manchester United. Edwin Stein was the first Black person to become a Manager of a football team, Barnet …
BiographyIngrid Jonker
… engaged with the cause of the poor and the lot of black South Africans from the position of a common humanity. …
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
… of a worker was intrinsically linked to the oppression of black people. Dlamini was an accused in the Treason Trial of …
BiographySolwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
… the 1940s or 1950s Ngudle witnessed bulldozers demolish black-owned homes in Kensington to make way for a White …
BiographyAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
… was highly regarded by both the British and local Black leaders and when he died in Magaliesberg on 23 July …
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… unique nursery for independence and self-employment among black South Africans and Africans of neighbouring British …
BiographyHelen Suzman
… gender discrimination, especially discrimination against Black women. Suzman was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 36 …
BiographyFeziwe Bookholane
… to read books on her own, because she was the only black nun. She wrote to the Bishop to get a dispensation and …
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
… she became distressed. For instance, from November 1989, Black Sash and other women’s organisations piled pressure on …
BiographyAndrew Mokete Mlangeni
… its secretary for the Johannesburg region, responsible for black groups. In 1951 he formally joined the ANC Youth …
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
… through African eyes (1969) My ups and downs: a black Christian in Southern Africa (1976) The Early Church in …
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… In mid 1906, the Natal colonialist in the face of rising Zulu resentment against the imposition of a …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… for unity among Africans and redefines the challenges that face them in the light of new pieces of apartheid legislation … ', Chief Luthuli introduces the…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… most notably by two strands: those aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and those aligned with … of SASM and its relation to the BCM,…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… had already made an earnest appeal to all leaders - both black and white - to come together with a view to forming a … his appeal for a united front, Chief…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… on New Year’s Eve members of this klops (club) appeared in black face and minstrel costumes. The march was poorly attended and …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… at the same time, during this period there is evidence of black and white children being educated in common classrooms. … growing missionary movement to…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… claimsresponsibility for a series of bombings in the black township of Soweto. The Boeremag sent an e-mail to the … a formula for poison to put into water…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… from wrecks. Persons found guilty of these offences can face a fine and prison sentence. The purpose of this …
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… that bound our minds and gave us back our humanity in the face of an implacable and a menacing enemy. Biko’s philosophy … had been done to Biko! It sent out…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
Ruth Alexander
… the grounds that it was calculated merely to ‘dilute’ the black vote in the Cape. Other key figures from the WEL too, …
BiographyVilla Baker
… stop her from being active in the women’s’ organisation, Black Sash . She marched, in Pretoria, with Helen Joseph and …
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
… to burn the hated pass books that the law required all black people to carry on them. As a member of the Matopo …
BiographyDora Taylor
… meetings, she came into contact with one of the foremost black intellectual, I.B Tabata , who was the founding member …