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BiographyMichael Davis
… with- and tracked- the leisure activities of South Africans. Davis contributed to Frontline magazine and to … the photographs revealed the frustration of…
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
… and a crusader for better housing for Johannesburg's Africans. He was an eccentric who often rode horseback in … moved to Johannesburg, where in 1944 he led…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
… Black individuals who came to be called the New Africans. The personalities organised themselves into units … people within their limiting environment. Some…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
… by the conservative Rheinalt Jones .He often defended Africans in court and aided African leaders.In 1943 Basner … (ANC) in lobbying at the United Nations on…
BiographyHarriette Emily Colenso
… of Zulu Affairs and in his efforts to protect the Africans of Natal and Zululand against the threatening … kept in touch with the activities and opinions of…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… Dhlomo (R.R.R.), a prominent Zulu writer among Black South Africans in the early twentieth century. Together, R.R.R and … The notion that Dhlomo’s early work…
Bonakele Mali Khana
… Bonakele Mali Khana was one of 616 South Africans that died when the SS Mendi sank in 1917. …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… became active in social work among poor White South Africans. He devoted much attention to welfare work and was … his republican sentiments again manifested…
BiographyProfessor Harold Jack Simons
… Liberal Party leader] and Jack Simons, two great South Africans." Simons was a research fellow at the University of … resistance to white domination: the…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
… and publishes research into indigenous knowledge of Africans prior to colonisation. Pheko is an Advocate to the … as: African Renaissance Saved Christianity…
Women delegates to the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
Cape Town: 1. Dora Tamana – African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Retreat Women’s Vigilance Association. 2. Esther Nose – Retreat Women’s…
ArchiveWhat an Educated African Girl Can Do - Alfred Xuma
ArchivePhotographs as Sources in African History by Robert Gordon and Jonatan Kurzwelly
ArchivePhotographs as Sources in African History by Robert Gordon and Jonatan Kurzwelly
ArchiveAfrican History and the Struggle to Decolonise Africa, (Evening Post), 1980
ArchiveAfrican National Congress of South Africa: A brief on political prisoners
A Tribute to Prof Ben Turok – Staff of Institute for African Alternatives
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press Commission's first report was tabled in parliament by the Minister of the Interior, de Klerk…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
… and Present.Though the book was about Black South Africans in general, the primary focus was the history of the … with a large practice serving both White…
EventThe South African Astronomical Observatory celebrates 200 years of its existence
On 20 October 1820, the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope, which became known as the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) was founded. It is the…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
… Sophiatown Anti-Removal Campaign against the relocation of Africans to the Western areas of Johannesburg, and that … 1950 at Newclare, Johannesburg that: …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the…
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
… depictions of local inhabitants such as the Khoikhoi and Africans are considered his best work. However, his public … frontier, particularly his portraits of…
BiographyMilner Langa Kabane
… Free State Teachers' Association and a member of the Africans' Claims committee and the Orange Free State All …
BiographyAlan Wieder
… oral historian who has been working since 1999 with South Africans who fought the apartheid regime. Besides numerous …
Samuel Chibane
… dropped. In 1963 Chibane was also charged with inciting Africans to attack government installations, stealing bombs …
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… Non-European Unity Conferences between 1927 and 1934 where Africans, coloureds and Indians discussed their common … in the church. In addition he was one of…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… he shared the cautious views of many older ANC leaders as Africans entered the militant decade of the 1950s, he lent …
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… government that tried to obtain a better dispensation for Africans in South Africa. However, as president of the … of the TNC that had to investigate the…