SAHO global search

1949

Joseph Alfers

… travelling around Europe in 1975 and then to South West Africa (now Namibia) as a research volunteer, he joined a … The slides reflect a disappearing…

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1935-1975

Edson Sithole

… Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was…

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Billy Paddock

… argued strongly for Christian social justice in South Africa. He later returned to the university and enrolled as a … the Anglican Church and looked after a…

B-0076350

1957

Cedric Nunn

… he was part of a team of photographers documenting South Africa’s first democratic election for the  Independent … national executive of the Professional…

B-0008832

1929-1981

Joe Nzingo Gqabi

… degree by correspondence from the University of South Africa. In 1961 he went into exile to join the newly formed … of the ANC,  Umkhonto we Sizwe . He was…

B-0008120

1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior Certificate … place of learning. Nhlapo traveled widely…

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1961

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

… General Secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF) , Southern Transvaal region and later became its General … Sexwale (presently Minister of Human…

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… (MK) in 1975. A student leader in 1976, he left South Africa on 14 August 1976 for exile. He received his military … Conspicuous Leadership Star Decoration…

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1955

Diane Case

… Cape Flats. [ii] This novel won the Maskew Miller Young Africa Literary award in that year and was to be the start of … the Percy Fitzpatrick prize of the…

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1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… lawyers for the defence in political trials in South Africa such as the Treason Trial (1958 – 1961) and the … with the establishment than that of his time in…

B-0086256

1930-2018

Billy Modise

… behalf of the ANC. He was a founder member of the  South Africa Committee  in Lund alongside Lars-Erik Johansson and … Modise met students from other…

B-0094430

1948-2019

Stephen Joel Chifunyise

… Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school at St Linus Matoranjera … developing theatre in Zimbabwe. He was…

B-0149653

1954

William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr

… Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa [i] . After matriculating from Nassau High School, … Hofmeyr [xxxvii] . Endnotes [i] William…

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1864-1929

Herbert Hayton Castens

… and rugby and was an outstanding sportsman. He was South Africa”²s first rugby captain, and also captain of the first … second oldest rugby club in South…

B-0144657

1939-2013

Pius Nkonzo Langa

… in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In … six children. Langa enrolled at the University…

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Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa

… in Lesotho of inter-territorial meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa, of which he was  General Secretary . …

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1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of … death occurred amid a post-colonial race…

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1937-2015

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

… Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) .  In 1953, at the age of 16, Dinat left school … spent in detention Dinat helped…

B-0120698

1958

Jonathan Shapiro

… Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. He returned to South Africa in 1991 and with Story Circle produced educational … abuse prevention comic later used by UNICEF…

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1952

Lesley Lawson

… After the 1976 student revolt, upon her return to South Africa, she resolved to become actively engaged in the … of HIV. Her book  Side Effects, The story of…

B-0008303

1933-1986

Samora Machel

… fighting white minority regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa to operate within Mozambique. Soon after Mozambique's … down Machel had signed a non-agression…

B-0008358

1956

Graham Goddard

… works to be exhibited at the Culture in Another South Africa (CASA) Festival in the Netherlands. It was at this … the “AnneFrank in the World” Exhibition…

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1927-2009

Harriet Bolton

… Harriet Bolton was born in 1927 in Makwassie in Southern Transvaal, the eldest of four children – a younger … the United Kingdom as she felt that the…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… in 1970 – all qualifications from the University of South Africa. In 1974 he also read linguis­tics at the University … in 1957. In I960 he was seconded as…

B-0008627

1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… founding member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, President of the South African Political Studies Association and the Association for Sociology in…

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1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… at Westfort, Kok visited leprosaria in various parts of Southern Africa, including Mozambique , Namibia on three occasions, … leprosy, worked with leprosy…

B-0008271

1918-2002

Arnold Selby

… Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His … the trade union movement and the Communist…

B-0068700

1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… with his own studies through the University of South Africa (Unisa) and was awarded his BA Hons in History in … of leaders of all political persuasions in…

B-0008001

1927

William Sinclair Winship

… to the care, treatment and protection of infants in South Africa, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, where he is still in … He also served on the executive of…

B-0149434

1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… Boesak had expressed increasing dissatisfaction with South Africa's  apartheid,  a strict form of segregation, … ABRECSA (the Alliance of Black Reformed…

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