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The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… break ideologically from the liberation movements of the 1950s. The intellectual ferment and creativity and increased … that had been part of the Congress…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… the naming of the stadium 'Curries Fountain'. 1920s-1950s Curries was used as a general sporting facility for …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in Durban in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to…
ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
With no discernable change in government policies, some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
In 1940, Alfred Xuma was elected the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), and a period of greater action was introduced. Xuma was still…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1990s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1970s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Durban branch of the Congress Of Democrats (COD) in the 1950s. In 1950, following the Suppression of Communism Act , …
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
BiographyMonica Hunter Wilson
… written up by Monica in four volumes published during the 1950s, delayed as it had been by her husband’s tragic death …
BiographyJames la Guma
… to make up for years of neglect. la Guma spent most of the 1950s with his family. During these years of political …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… organisations as South Africa Freedom Day. Since the 1950s protests, many of the campaigns of the liberation …
ArticleBanishment under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
Elza Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans…
BiographyCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes
Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was born on 1st June in 1926 in East London. Skotnes served in the South African Forces in Italy. Before returning to South Africa he…
ArchiveThree decades of South African school history textbooks: historiographical influence, change, and continuity from the 1970s to the 1990s
Honours thesis in History submitted to the University of Cape Town by Lynda K. von den Steinen.
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
… to inaugurate SACTU’s “one pound a day” campaign in the 1950s, Gaetsewe stated that it was not only black workers who …
BiographySydney Kumalo
… Catholic churches at Kroonstad and Orlando during the late 1950s. He also occasionally exhibited his works along with …
A documentary history, Volume one 1907 ? 1950. Edited by Alison Drew.
ArchiveSeeing and Being Seen: Politics, Art and The Everyday in Omar Badsha's Durban Photography, 1960s - 1980s
BiographyMary Maria Burton
Mary Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… Ebrahim concluded that the non-violent struggle of the 1950s had come to an end and new strategies would have to be …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… across Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State. 1950s South African music came into International prominence … and Letta Mbulu gained fanatical followings…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and…
BiographyWinston Ntshona
Wintson Ntshona was born on 6 October 1941 in Port Elizabeth. He matriculated from Newell High School where he performed in school plays with John Kani. During…
Siphiwe Nyanda
… were members of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s and he came from a politicised household. This …