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BiographyGeorge Mokate Ramafoku
George Mokate Ramafoku is the only person, banished post-1948, who was also banished prior to 1948. His banishment order, of 8 May 1935, notes that Chief…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
In 1884, at the Berlin Conference, the European powers carved up Africa amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under…
BiographyTheophilus Kgosikobo Musi
Born in 1936, Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi was a clerk. He taught for a while in a primary school but then had to find employment in Johannesburg to support seven…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles,…
Vondela Landingwe
Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the…
BiographyHyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu
Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended school in Catholic mission and then he went to study private to…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop of…
BiographyPhumzile John Gomomo
Phumzile John Gomomo was born on a farm in Adelaide on 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and Nonga Stofile …
BiographySelby Bangani Ngcobo
Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and saddler, Ngcobo studied at Adams…
BiographyS. S. Tema
S. S. Tema was a Dutch Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the…
Edward Mzolo
Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. No details are available on the date of…
Maria Wilman
Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931, once women were allowed…
BiographyMichael Hathorn
Michael Hathorn was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal in 1922. After schooling, he went to Wits University in Johannesburg, and qualified with a BSc in Mining…
BiographySam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa …
Sandi Smit
Born in 1962, Sandy Smit was an ECC Media Committee member, Jodac member and Afrapix photographer. On the 15th of June, under the emergency regulations, Smit…
BiographyNickle Mjekula
Nickle Mjekula was banned for two years in June 1966 under the National Party's Suppression of Communisn Act. He was also banned from attending gatehrings.He…
BiographyHarry Moyaga
Apart from interaction with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in…
BiographyAndrew Mokete Mlangeni
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of a twin (he has a…
Potlako Leballo
He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The…
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member of the South African Congress Trade…
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
Born in 1900, Johannesburg Chamile worked as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the…
BiographyHerbert Mekutu
Detained during the 1960 State of Emergency. Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act. Prohibited from attending gatherings. Forbidden from entering any…
The South African Communist Party: 65 years in the frontline of struggle: A booklet commemorating 65 years of the SACP, also discussing leaders of the party.1986
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
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
Contents Introduction The concept of segregation Discriminatory legislation up to 1924 Political Legislation Economic Legislation Legislation regarding…
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