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Liberation organisations
… that led to the collapse of the apartheid government. Cosas and Azaso In the aftermath of the 1976 Uprising, a national high school education student…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
… for black South Africans. In 1976, following the Soweto Student Uprising, Abdullah arranged an illegal ANC benefit … Abdullah remains a true definition of a…
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
… more importantly, he was elected as the President of the Student Representative Council. Before returning to South … and played an instrumental role in…
Vella Pillay
… several Whites with a Marxist bent. They had formed a new student organization called the Federation of Progressive student in opposition to the Students…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
… 16 uprising started, Mashinini was 15 years old. He was a student at Orlando West Junior Secondary School. His politicisation was done there. He served on…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… townships in the Cape. While at University, she ran the student printing press as a member of the Student Representative Council. In 1982, she was recruited …
BiographyOhm Collins Chabane
… ANC underground. Chabane was also a member of the Azanian Student Organisation (Azaso) . He registered for a Bachelor …
Jeannette Ndhlovu
… States of America (USA) to strengthen the anti-apartheid student movement and also to pursue her academic career. She …
BiographyDr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
… Marianhill College, where he distinguished himself as a student. After a year of premedical studies at Fort Hare, he …
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
… through his daughter Mandisa, who was a member of the student body. His daughter and nephew Mkhululi would organize … of political organization, progressive…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… started early. In 1944, when she was 16 years old and a student of Durban Indian Girls High School, she helped raise … action in South African history…
BiographyThomas Madikwe Manthata
… as tutors,teachers and speakers.He was a apart time student at the University of South Africa,he joined both the …
BiographyPule Mabe
Puleng Peter Mabe (Pule Mabe) was born on 19 March 1980 in Namakgale, Phalaborwa, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). He was raised by a single…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… in South Africa. Students founded the South African Student Organisation (SASO) which became a vehicle through … deprived black higher education students…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… 1947. He was often referred to as the 'Pied Piper'in his student and teaching days at Lovedale, as he would entertain … the same year he met his future wife,…
Cheryl Ellen Gillwald
… of America (USA) as an American Field Service exchange student, for one year. Gillwald completed a Bachelor of … winter schools where she enlisted the…
BiographyThemba Thomas Mazibuko
… West High School and became a member of the South African Student Movement (SASM). In 1974 as a member of SASM he and …
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… to create awareness on campus and to get the university’s student body to take part in the protest. Secondly, they … on the verge of being expelled for his…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… (FOSATU) and the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) — organised and led these successful struggles. It is … openly associated itself with black…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… (FOSATU) and the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) ”” organised and led these successful struggles. It is … openly associated itself with black…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
… with Joy Krause) at Durban Art Gallery whiles still a student. Frequent one-man exhibitions thereafter all over …
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
… He married Marceda Ismael of Cape Town, a fellow medical student in the United Kingdom (UK), in 1931. They had a son …
BiographyFihla Christmas Tinto
… started at an early age. In 1942, while he was still a student at St John’s College in Umtata, Tinto spearheaded a …
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
… Junior Certificate. Nkosi studied sculpture as a private student with Peter Hayden. After he moved to Johannesburg in …
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
… in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high school education at Sekano …
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
… (ANC) 1952 Defiance Campaign . In 1959,as a first year student at the UFH,he joined the off-campus African National …
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… . Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape she was active …
BiographyRick Turner
… by his stay in Paris. Observing the nascent French student movement convinced him that students could wield … by then broken away from NUSAS to form the…
”Bridging the Gap Between White and Black in South Africa”. Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extracts]
… B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 …