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BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… of the African National Congress in the late 1940s and 1950s, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews exercised a major …
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
… Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe was president of the Cape ANC and chief …
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
… members of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s. Manzini herself became active politically during high …
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
… which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. In 1958 Jassat was arrested with twenty-eight other …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
1840s John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, John Langalibalele Dube is…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… soon promoted to the branch executive. During the early 1950s a large majority of South African activists were banned …
List of major massacres 1950
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… in isolation. In the rest of Africa, particularly from the 1950s onwards, a wave of black nationalism swept over the …
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… secretary of the ANC's Pietermaritzburg branch in the mid-1950s, and had a close working relationship with Chief Albert …
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… ruling class how best to oppress the people. By the late 1950s, Essak decided the he had enough of the Education … In the polemic which wracked the UM in the…
BiographyBasil Coetzee
Basil Coetzee ( ‘Ou B’ or 'Manenberg' as he was affectionately known) was born in District Six, Cape Town, on 2 February 1944. He grew up in the area, and as a…
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…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
… reputation of being both effective and militant. In the 1950s, it played a leading role in the South African Congress …
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… the meantime, his businesses were flourishing and by the 1950s he was focusing most of his energies in running them. …
BiographyThandi Klaasen
… story. Her professional career began in earnest in the mid-1950s, performing initially for ten shillings a show before …
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
… government introduced the Bantu Authorities Act in the 1950s, the Bunga, the council of Transkei chiefs, rejected …
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
… of the lives of millions of South Africans in the 1950s. Nzo got actively involved in the organising of the …
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
… and became a well-known figure in its circles. During the 1950s, he was a member of the Picasso Club, along with Ahmed …
Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s
1990s: Women in the pre-election period
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… of the 1930s from the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 … method through which the ANC sought…
BiographyPeter Becker
… his post as school principal during the latter part of the 1950s, Becker accepted the editorship of the black magazine …
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… those banished after the Sekhukhuni trials in the late 1950s. On 24 June 1963. Nkadimeng was detained as a suspected …
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… via the Friday sermons and public lectures during the late 1950s and 1960s. It was in these sermons and lectures that he …
BiographyGana Makabeni
Gana Makabeni was born in the Transkei. He attended a Communist night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade unionist, and…
BiographyJackson Mbhazima Hlungwani
Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to…