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ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: rejection of foreign investment
… involvement of foreign investors and this letter sent from BPC to 31 foreign firms calls on foreign investors to …
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… into the nationally-political Black People’s Convention (BPC). The goal of the militant/African-biased BPC was to unite shattered/disparate fragments of the…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape, however, there are other…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 14 April 1925. His parents, Carl August and Elsie May Eglin were…
BiographyDean Hutton
Dean Hutton is a genderqueer artist living in Johannesburg interested in portraiture as co-authorship; social media as narrative; technology as self-reflection…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St Peter's…
UDF Poster ‘People’s power apartheid paliament. Don’t support Apartheid’ by Transvaal Anti presidents Council (Anti PC)’, 1984, South Africa
The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during 1973 the government for political reasons banned a to
BiographyMngqingo Pikani
At a 1953 meeting in Lusikisiki, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] betterment and the Bantu Authorities (BA) were rejected in the presence of the Paramount…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… Organisation (SASO) and the Black Peoples' Convention (BPC) and other liberation movements. There is much discussion …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… leading to the arrest of most Black People’s Convention (BPC) and SASO leaders, including Myeza. Myeza died in car …
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Organisation (SASO) and the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) helped organise a 'Viva Frelimo Rally' at Curries … Strini Moodley , Zithulele Cindi and Gilbert…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
Todd Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…
Political assassination: Nic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement, is
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… a new political movement, the Black People Convention (BPC) was formed after a three day long conference in …
Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, announces that the attorney-general of the Transvaal is to prosecute thirty of the 357 people
Cabinet decides to replace the SAAF trainer Harvards by the Swiss-made Pilatus PC-7 MK2. The joint venture will include twelve
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…
BiographyNöel Robb
Nöel Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife,…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… wing of their organisation, the Black People’s Convention (BPC) under the Presidency of Winnie Kgware. A watershed …
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… levelled at black organisations – against ANC, PAC, BPC and student groups such as SASO, SASM, NA YO, etc – Steve’s BPC branch saw to it that every story…
BiographyBheki Cele
Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 April 1952 to Albertina Mtshali and Gillford Cele at uMuzumbe Mission Hospital near…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never…