Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical thinking and emphasised the importance of taking action against injustice.
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Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Born:
February 15, 1960
in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)
Ngema Tribal Trust falls under the, Mkhondo Local Municipality Gert, in Sibande District of Mpumalanga , South Africa . The Area of Ngema Tribal Trust is 79.61 squared kilometres, with a population of about 6 000 people. (This was according to a Census taken in 2011). This Area forms largely Farms. There is a a public primary school, known as the: 'Ngema Combined School'. In 2014 there were 733 registered learners.
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Irene Menell
Born:
January 1, 1932
Born in 1932, Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and secondary schooling in the United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and South Africa. After matriculating in 1949 at Kingsmead College in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), she enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 and followed up with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1954.
Kumalosville, near Ladysmith, in Natal, was one of the first "blackspots" to go. The Liberal Party booklet has this to say. "In January, 1908, a Mr Daniel Bester sold 250 acres of land to an African syndicate whose trustees were Chief J.H. Kumalo and Messrs. T. Kumalo and E. Lutango. Kumalosville was born. "In October, 1963, over 55 years later, the demolition squads of the Nationalist Government's Department of Bantu Administration moved in, and Kumalosville died.
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Nithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Born:
November 1, 1958
in Esperanza, a village in the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), South Africa
Died:
November 10, 1995
in Orange Free State, (now Free State Province)
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern seaboard of South Africa. The second of four children, he was the son of primary school teachers, Nora and Ganese Govender.
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The Sweet Workers’ Union (SWU) originated as an offshoot of the short-lived Women Workers’ Union, founded by Fanny Klenerman in the mid-1920s, when that organisation fragmented as a result of its failure to comply with the legal definition of “trade union” as determined by law (Berger, 1992). The SWU, by 1941, was a fairly “weak and ineffective” organisation despite several years of organising efforts.