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BiographyArthur Goldreich
… Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He … headmaster announced that students would be learning a foreign language, German. The…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… Arthur Goldreich will go down in history as one of the rare breeds … history. Not only did he sacrifice his privileges as a white South African but bore the…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in … Johannesburg and detained top ANC…
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
… known as the Rivonia trialists. Her brother, James Kantor a lawyer, was later also arrested but acquitted in the … cells of her husband, Harold Wolpe , along…
Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border, and Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid esca
… Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to … Harold…
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was … as their legal representatives and were…
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
… 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu . It was a play on his surname and a…
BiographyBabette Brown
… A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, … in Cape Town , Cape Province (now Western Cape) in 1903 on a ‘poor ship’ from Lithuania,…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… the Bar in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an auxiliary body, although he was not in the army. … in this, and according to Hilda…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was a companion of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi …
BiographyJames Kantor
… on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor … James Kantor & Partners, in Johannesburg…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export business. The family was forced to relocate to Bloemhof, a nearby town,…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… Reggie Vandeyar was born into a poor family on 15 July 1931 in Newclare. His father was … Vandeyar attended the Bree Street Indian Primary School, a few…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… Four political detainees: Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border; Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid; Moosie Moolla,…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… of the ANC, were arrested on this day. This moment came as a terrible titanic dream in the history of the ANC. Amongst … illegally in 1962. The farm was…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… penalty. Accused No.1 was Nelson Mandela, then serving a five-year sentence following his trial in 1962 when I had … Trial drew to an end. They were intended…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… Four political detainees, Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border, Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid, Moosa Moolla,…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… the most profound moment in the trial, Nelson Mandela made a speech in the dock in which he condemned the very court in … called Liliesleaf, in Rivonia. It…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… the banning of the ANC and its leadership included Arthur Goldreich and Walter Sisulu.The first guerilla attack was … ANC leaders were tried for sabotage. MK…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… within the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general feeling of the need to rejuvenate politics within the Indian community by infusing a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… Pillay and Abdul Minty , South Africans in exile, play a significant role in the Boycott Movement. The … Square Police Headquarters together with detainees…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… up uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) to engage in the armed struggle. A number of high profile arrests – such as those of members … in the Rivonia Trial. 11 August ,…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… He was, according to subsequent president FW de Klerk , ‘a thick-set man with heavy jowls and intense blue eyes who … for his deadpan sense of humour and his…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… bases and camps. In South Africa, the government passed a series of security laws which enabled it to arrest, detain … of grievances. December, The SACP,…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… Liliesleaf farm -house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter than a Thousand Suns, the story of the first atomic bomb dropped … and had been lent to us by the…
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
… As a white person in white-ruled South Africa, Denis Goldberg … from the racist past to the non-racial present, and to a future where the colour of your skin…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… the country’s anti-apartheid movement and faced exile as a result; other Jews refrained from action. In both cases, … communist affairs. On 11 July 1963,…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… than one hundred years later. The formation of MK followed a series of events that made it necessary for the national … liberation movements in South Africa…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… on 29 March 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of preparation for both sides, revealing nothing of … consciousness existed), was…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… enemies. Tsar Nicholas II considered establishing a Russian consulate in the South African Republic (ZAR, later … Flag Boshielo and Alfred Kgokong. The SACP…