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List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1970s
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957,…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… the country, mainly during the late 1950s and early in the 1960s, resurfacing as exiles. They include Mirriam Makeba, … the authorities took control of the…
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
… His father Ewie had played for Orange Free State in the 1960s, and Hansie's older brother Frans had also played …
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA). By the early 1960s APDUSA was the only legal organisation (the African …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… that had become home to over a million people by the mid-1960s. There he married Nomvula Jumaima Mkhubukeli (born … violated apartheid laws and courted…
ArticleList of victims of police action, 21 March, 1960 (Sharpeville and Langa)
Sharpeville Funeral, 13 April, 1960. Source: Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.picturesCasualties in SharpevilleBakela, WiggiBeshe, JamesBessie,…
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.
BiographySolwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him Looksmart because when he…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… articles and opened his practice in Verulam in the early 1960s. This period coincided with the banning of the ANC and …
BiographyGünther Komnick
… his own graphic design business in Cape Town . Since the 1960s he has travelled extensively in Southern Africa, Egypt, …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
Leonard Maqhatshu Mdingi was born on 2 February1926. He grew up at his family homesteads first near Bizana, and then in Amadiba Location towards the coast in…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
… shop in Bree Street, above street level. In the early 1960s, hers was the first dress shop in which black women …
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
… South Africa for Swaziland (now Eswatini) in the early 1960s. Once in Eswatini, it was there that Masilela would …
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
“The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices –submit or fight”. In 2005 Dr Garth Benneyworth (Sol Plaatje University) located a…
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…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… she was constantly harassed by apartheid security. In the 1960s the ANC moved toward the armed struggle and Umkhonto we … had.” Albertina’s financial woes…
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… in the context of South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, and explaining its strategic political choices. In …
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town. She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape liberal…
ArchiveSharpeville 21 March 1960
Article regarding the Sharpeville 21 March 1960. 5 000 people gathered at the Sharpeville police station near Johannesburg to start the Pan Africanist Congress…
BiographyJudith Mason
Born Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She matriculated from the…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… the derogatory name given to the university in the early 1960s), the Afrikaans Writers Association (Afrikaanse …
BiographyTerry Bell
… Congress of Democrats (COD). Bell’s journalistic career in 1960s in South Africa spanned the Amalgamated Press ( …
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… According to Thulani Gcabashe, her son-in-law, during the 1960s there were uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) recruits being cared … Nokukhanya and other family members…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…