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BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi was born in Munhango, Moxico Province in eastern Angola on 3 August 1934. Savimbi's primary education took place at Protestant mission…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… key provisions: The Act integrated land identified by the 1913 Act into African reserves, and thereby formalised the … of land to be added to the African…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
Today, January 8th, we mark the 71st anniversary of our organisation, the African National Congress. We are beginning a new political year. We must therefore…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
BiographyMonica Hunter Wilson
Monica Wilson's parents, Scots Presbyterian missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, 1908. From…
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… [xxi] Ray Alexander Simons, who was born in Latvia in 1913, moved to South Africa in 1929 and was married to Eli …
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… thugs. In the miners' and engineers' strike on the Rand of 1913 twenty-one people were killed and over eighty wounded by …
Khoisan Identity
… which communities lost before the assigned cut-off date of 1913, with the proclamation of the ‘Native Land Act’ , land … especially in the early nineteenth…
BiographyMarapo Seopa
Original residence: Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] Place of banishment: Tabaans Location …
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
I wish to express my deep gratitude for the privilege accorded to me to address this important body. It was with considerable reluctance that I applied for…
BiographyMampe Mosia Makhaya
Mosia Makhaya was born on 6 December 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Makhaya obtained a BA Honours degree specialising in Russian, French and Portuguese…
BiographyZubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her…
BiographyMatsobane Morris Matsemela
Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started working at his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…
BiographyGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953 Durban. She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone Secondary School in…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…
BiographyLulu Dube
Lulu Dube was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline (neè Khumalo) Dube and their last surviving daughter…
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…
BiographyFanie Jason
Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black…
BiographyHeidi Saayman
Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving school she studied at…
Siva Pillay
Siva Pillay was a B.Sc. student at university in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s…
BiographyLutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic worker, washing…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the…