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ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… deputation, but very little was achieved during the 1920s and 1930s. The ANC continued to criticise the … in Cape Town, became a mass movement most active in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… General South African History Timeline: 1920s …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern … were poor) and seek jobs in the nearby towns. In the 1920s there were not yet any…
BiographyMweli Skota
… Abantu-Batho, and served as its editor in the late 1920s. He failed at two other attempts to launch African … Skota initiated the shortened name in the mid…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in … The global…
Politics and Class in the Cape Province during the 1920s
… Politics and Class in the Cape Province during the 1920s …
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
GRADE 12 Topic 3: Civil society protests 1950s to 1970s Online Resource: http://learn.mindset.co.za/resources/history/grade-12/civil-society-protests-1950s…
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… of other Joint Councils throughout the Union in the 1920s and 1930s. After high school he worked briefly in a …
BiographyJosie Palmer
… in this area became so highly politicised. During the 1920s and 1930s, Mpama wrote for the CPSA’s journal, … renowned Black trade union leader in South…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the State of Emergency (SOE). In periods when the government…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world. Therefore, what…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Potchefstroom in the late 1920s, Mofutsanyana went to Durban as an organiser in 1931 …
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
The independence of Mozambique, in particular, gave tremendous momentum to the armed struggle in South Africa. Jacob Zuma recalls that when Angola and…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… Bloemfontein advisory board from its establishment in the 1920s, he was for 13 years the treasurer of the South African Location Advisory Boards Congress. In…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… piano and violin player (Couzens, 1985). During the 1920s, Dhlomo began publishing articles and editorials under … were heavily inspired by the Harlem…
BiographyNtlabati Jojo
… Jojo had been deposed of his status as headman in the late 1920s though by the 1940s, he was considered to be …
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU) ,1920s and in 1926 he became a member of the African National …
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in the Western Cape , and the first woman to …
BiographyJohn Gomas
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CP) in the late 1920s and was elected to the CPSA political bureau in 1933. …
ArticleHow uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Church in South Africa in 1956. For six years in the 1920s and 1930s he was principal of Wilberforce Institute in …
BiographyGana Makabeni
… Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s. In 1926 he was elected to the party's central …
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
Popular violence in the decade between 1984 and 1993 is well documented. Existing literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… deputised him, acting periodically in this capacity in the 1920s. In 1919 he was a secretary of the deputation to the … to get a better dispensation for…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… the revived Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in the early 1920s. Though declining official positions because of time, … for him, both would have suffered an…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… time, the ICU was the most influential Black union in the 1920s. She became involved with the Garment Workers’ Union in …
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… Indian working class family in the harsh conditions of the 1920s, he was forced to leave school at an early age. He …
BiographyT W Thibedi
… the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist … committee. With Benjamin Weinbren he worked…
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
Durant Basi Sihlali was born on 5 March 1935 in an industrial area, Germiston, Transvaal, now known as Gauteng Province. Due to harsh living conditions, his…
BiographyMoses Mphahlele
… National Congress (ANC) in the Transvaal during the 1920s, he was born in Pietersburg and received his education … as a political protégé of S. M. Makgatho…