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BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
BiographyJoe Slovo
… changed to South African Communist Party (SACP)] from the 1940s. As an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar, he became well …
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
Yunus Ismail Mahomed was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up in Jeppe, attending…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
… was briefly engaged to the poet I. D. du Plessis in the 1940s , but he broke off the engagement. Until her death she …
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… politics and African nationalist thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African National Congress (ANC). … on historical developments, in a very real…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
With no discernable change in government policies, some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1990s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1970s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
BiographyHugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play piano as a…
BiographyEnver Hassim
… studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1940s, and became politically aware around that time. Wits at …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… considerable popularity, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s: star groups such as The Jazz Maniacs, The Merry … first African recording to sell more than 100…
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
ArchiveThree decades of South African school history textbooks: historiographical influence, change, and continuity from the 1970s to the 1990s
Honours thesis in History submitted to the University of Cape Town by Lynda K. von den Steinen.
BiographyEsther Barsel
… as a secretary for the Friends of the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Their romance blossomed on the long train journeys …
BiographyIsaiah Stein
Isaiah Stein was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents died, during his teens, he…
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful business…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s the TIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … which it helped form along with the NIC…
Letter from Max Gordon 6 to Fanny Klenerman 7, 21 December 1940
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… stories – most of which remain unpublished. By the mid-1940s, he had completed two English novels; however, his …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… (South African Indian Congress). However, in the 1930s-1940s the NIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … in militant struggles. Like the TIC, in…