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BiographyAlexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist…
BiographyBaleka Mbete-Kgositsile
Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the Northern Transvaal but…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually took up work as a…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… also was influential in a miners’ strike on the Rand in 1913. (Walker, 1982 59) These actions by Fitzgerald, although … her life to the trade union movement…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… Africa, his great expose of the ruinous effects of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act. This legislation almost completely …
The International Socialist League (ISL)
The International Socialist League (ISL) was formed in September 1915. It was created by a progressive faction of the South African Labour Party (SALP) as a…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… sewage farm, near Johannesburg (Swanson, 1977: 388). 1913 The Natives Land Act limited the landmass where Africans … and Land Act was passed, updating the…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
One of the most important developments in South Africa in this period was the formation of the Pact Government in which the push for independence from Britain…
Increase Assistance to Liberation Movements - Statement at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa by O. R. Tambo, Oslo, 11 April 1973
We should like to endorse and associate ourselves with every detail of the case that has been made out for the support of the liberation movement in the…
Mobilise World Support for African Liberation Struggle - Statement, on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 9 April 1973
[Oliver Tambo, speaking on behalf of all liberation movements, thanked the Government of Norway for its hospitality. He specially praised the Norwegian…
BiographyHezekiel Sepeng
Hezekiel Sepeng was born on 30 June 1974 in Potchestroom, Western Transvaal. At primary school he began to show the natural talent of a good marathon runner. …
BiographyJackson (Balisile)) Nkosiyane
Jackson (Balisile) Nkosiyane, Twalimfene Joyi, Bangilizwe Joyi and McGregor Mgolombane were all banished on 30 May 1958 from Thembuland, Umtata District, …
Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis
Henrietta (Ettie or Het) Rebecca Stakesby Lewis was born in 1850 at the Umpukani Mission Station, Orange Free State (now Free State Province), and grew up in…
BiographyAnn Tobias
Ann Tobias was a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa during Apartheid. The party strongly opposed Apartheid policies and the government would go on to…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers…
‘United Nations must take action to Destroy Apartheid’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 29 October 1963
Statement of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, on the the 17th anniversary of the 1976 students uprising Orlando Stadium, Soweto, 16 June 1993
UDF Poster ‘WE DEMAND: SADF & POLICE OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS! : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), 20/08/1983 - 20/08-1991
Document 66 - Hosea Jaffe , “The First Ten Years of the Non-European Unity Movement”, Excerpts from a lecture delivered to the Cape Flats Educational Fellowship, December 1953
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviours has stood on its present Site since 1854…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
BiographyAhmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
Gwigwi Mrwebi, also called ‘Bra Gwigwi’, whose birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught…
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo…
BiographyFeroza Adam
Feroza Adam was born on the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High School. While…
BiographyDon Mattera
Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a…
BiographyNnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho. She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930…
BiographyJoseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla
Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla…