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BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
Mama Beshenga
… Beshenga threw her weight behind opposing these inhuman laws urging women to join in the demonstrations to Parliament …
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
… the regional chairman was arrested on the eve of the Anti-Pass Campaign in1960, 23-year-old Kgosana inherited local …
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
… car mechanic and was able to attend the event. The PACanti-pass campaign of March 1960 drew few supporters in East …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… the University of London External Programme, Master of Laws with the University of London External Programme, Master … Africa. His honorary degrees include :…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… the deputation’s concerns about police raids and the pass laws, but took pains to stress the group’s ‘moderation’. The … but singled out the treatment of…
Speech by OR Tambo on the occasion of installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, 19 October 1991
… Hare and on being awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, 19 October 1991 …
BiographyPiet Retief
… norms. Reforms that deeply affected many Afrikaners were laws prohibiting the slave trade and later, the abolition of … freedom will be esteemed" and a…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… in voicing opposition to several proceeding discriminatory laws, including the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance and … from the University of Witwatersrand…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
BiographyBenson Tsele
… Potato Boycott as well as the subsequent campaign against pass laws. The campaigns catapulted key activists such as Tsele to …
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
… for the Black Sash counselling victims of discriminatory laws and detention. Makhoere wrote a book about her …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born near Mapumulo in Natal …
BiographyNana Henrietta Moabi
… Congress (ANC). Moabi participated in the 1960 Anti-Pass Campaign , and witnessed the Sharpeville massacre . …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… a daughter named Makaziwe. Makaziwe would tragically pass away at 9 months old. In 1948, the National Party (NP) … mass action against a plethora of new…
BiographyBarry “Anderson” Richards
… on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. In 1968 he performed in an outstanding manner …
BiographyFatima Seedat
… as a teenager on noticing the impact the segregation laws had in South Africa. She joined the Communist Party in …
BiographyEdson Sithole
… black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the second black person in the country … he completed most of his work toward a…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
… heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was classifiedas a ‘Cape Coloured’. At 17, he played … former first class cricketer who defied the…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
… Resistance Movement and the 1952 Defiance of Unjust Laws , and also played an instrumental role with respect to … ANC and the NIC and actively mobilised…
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… Sophiatown removals, One Pound-a-Day, the Women Anti-Pass Campaign of 1959, the Pass Burning after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 and the …
BiographyMargaret Singana
… in search of fame but, due to the influx control laws, she ended up as a domestic worker. Her employer soon …
BiographyEphraim Nkwe
… In 1989, as defiance against the governments oppressive laws spread like wild fire, the government met it with yet …
EventJames Thaele, co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, passes away
James M. Thaele, radical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, died in Cape Town. He was…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… him was withdrawn,but police arrested him for not having a pass,although as a coloured person under South Africa law he …
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
… 1945 he was on the working committee of the National Anti-Pass Council. A member of Johannesburg's Orlando township …
BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, the eldest son of Johnson Pinti and Hannah Nowise Mxenge, was born in 1935. His parents were well-respected peasant farmers of Rayi,…
’We are of the world and the world is with us’, Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New …
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
Judge Erns Jansen was born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 June 1918. He was the son of Ernest Jansen, Minister of Native Affairs in the National Party…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… War II. Reverend Gawe took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign in 1952, and went on to succeed Professor Z K …