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BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… with housing, urban development, and education in Black townships. Menell also took part in a bridging programme for …
Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.
Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in Queenstown, eastern Cape.
Twenty-two residents are killed in Katlehong and Tokoza, in ongoing township violence.
Ten township youths are killed in KwaThema. The activists use booby-trap grenades.
The United Democratic Front and Township Revolt by Mark Swilling, 1984, South Africa
Brenda Fassie, SA ‘Pop Queen’, is born in the Langa township, Cape Town.
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… fellow PFP councillor Di Bishop into the Port Elizabeth townships. This led to the first structured contact between …
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… section of the NEUM, and canvassed support in Black townships and in the rural areas. For a time, APDUSA … trial in 1976. He threw himself into community…
BiographyLesetja Kganyago
Lesetja kganyago was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, in Gauteng Province in 1965. At the age of five, he moved to Northern Province, now known as…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied to become a teacher…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her Standard Six primary…
Eleven residents are killed in Katlehong in ongoing township violence in Katlehong and Tokoza.
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… countrywide schools boycotts in the Indian and Coloured townships and the anti-South African Indian Council …
BiographyEudy Simelane
… community, particularly the black lesbian community in townships. Following a trial, two of Simelane’s four …
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC) at Chesterville in Durban just before it was banned in 1960. He then went underground and embarked on a…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… the South African Defence Force (SADF) intensified in the townships and on school premises, attempting to stifle …
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… taking place in Port Elizabeth, particularly within the townships. This would have an effect on Diedericks’ political …
Vusi Tshabalala, Thokoza township civic leader, is shot by gunmen while walking in Thokoza, PWV.
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe passed away in London on 2 September 1929 at age 70. He was a mining and property magnate who was knighted for his…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
Alpheus Madaba Madiba born in 1901, in Nzhelele in the northern Transvaal, into a Venda peasant family.He emigrated to Johannesburg when he was 17 and found…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… programme which trained civic activists from Durban townships to conduct research in their communities. After …
ArchiveEye-witness account of the action by South African police in a Black Township near Cape Town
A teacher's account of police brutality against High school students in the Cape Peninsula in the period following the Soweto riots, published as an article in…