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BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
John Hlatywayo was born in 1928, Chipinge, Rhodesia. Hlatywayo originally trained as a carpenter. He studied under Cecil Skotnes at Polly Street Art Centre and…
BiographyMarthinus Hattingh
Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh studied Wood Technology and worked for Mondi Timbers. Having experimented with…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… during and after a strike by one of its affiliates in 1946, the African Mineworkers' Union. More on this strike … the weaknesses that CNETU displayed at this…
BiographyJoshua Ramopudu
In 1962, people from a ‘swartkol’ (‘black spot’), Maleuskop, between Groblersdal [Limpopo Province] and Middelburg [Mpumalanga] were removed and relocated at…
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
BiographyConny Braam
In 1971 Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland (AABN)…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
BiographySydney Derrick Sipho Mdanda
He was born in Durban. He attended Mzuvele High School and matriculated in 1979. He studied at Fort Hare University from 1980-1985 and obtained a BA(FA) Degree…
BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
BiographyGabriel Kee Kuboni
He was born in Durban. From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Lourenco Marques High School, which changed its name first to Sibonenlo High School, and which is…
BiographyGarth Erasmus
Garth Erasmus was born on 12 April 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Erasmus was raised in Port Elizabeth and from an early age expressed an interest in art. He…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
BiographyLorna Peirson
She was born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a BA(FA) in 1950 from UN(P). From 1941 to 1950 she taught at…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the African National Congress(ANC) activist and trade unionist John Nkadimeng. Nkadimeng skipped the country…
BiographyIlse Naude
Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near Caledon. After completing secondary education she received a bursary and…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… period before the First World War, passive resistance in 1946, the campaigns of civil disobedience against unjust laws …
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers'…
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, South Africa: Confessions of a Guerrilla, Time, 17 November 1986
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, The making of a traitor, by Sarah Sussens, The Sunday Star, 9 November 1986
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, Former journalist guilty of treason, The Cape Times, 4 November 1986
ArticleA history of Soweto
… movements in Orlando grew in size between 1944 and 1946. Some of the squatters came from the Old Pimville …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as a…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
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…
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…
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown…
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…