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BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and his mother were…
ArchiveANC International Solidarity Conference, Arusha, 1-4 December 1987: Message
Message delivered by Teodata Hunguana, Minister of Information, People's Republic of Mozambique, at the African National Congress International Solidarity…
ArchiveVisit to Pietersburg 16 and 17 October, 1982
This is a report by Ishmael Mkhabela the Relation Officer of Council of Churches regarding his visit to Pietersburg on 16 and 17 October 1982.
ArchiveSummary of Congress reports and recommendations for 1981
Summaries of reports presented at the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
BiographyVicky Sampson
Vicky Sampson was born in 1969, to Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
Barend Jacobus Erasmus was born to Barend Jacobus Gerrit Wessel Erasmus and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father…
BiographyViolet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg. She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
Jonas Mosa Gwangwa was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…
Sizakele Sigxashe
Sizakele Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities…
BiographyZainunnisa “Cissie” Gool
Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political leaders, her father was the prominent…
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
Caesarina Kona Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955. Her father was a policeman and her mother worked as a domestic worker. At a young age she was forcibly…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
TRAC, the Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention of giving communities under…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for Drum Magazine, South…
BiographyVesta Smith
Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
The homeland known as Ciskei, between the Fish and the Kei River, was created between 1961 and 1982 by the then Nationalist Party Government.. This was done as…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… in 1979, MK attacks increased to 136 in 1985 and 281 in 1989. (Lodge, 1992: 178). After 1985 MK also sought to root … to boycott classes around education…
BiographySonja Schlesin
Sonja Schlesin was born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… 1950-1960. Staffrider , Volume 8 Numbers 3 and 4, 1989, p 91. Davenport, T.R.H. South Africa: A Modern History …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… in talks with the ANC. Botha suffered a stroke in January 1989, and the NP chose FW de Klerk as the party leader, and in August 1989 de Klerk became the…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
‘The laws of Queen Victoria had been hidden. Natives should fight to regain them’. Gumede - Harris, 8 November 1923. INTRODUCTION The mission with which…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
BiographyLinda Komape
Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with her…
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
Canodoise Daniel Themba (Can Themba) was born in 1924, in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare,…