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BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
… where he opened a furniture business in Alexandra Township. He was one of the first to be banned under the …
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… He was appointed as the party branch leader in Daveyton Township near Benoni. Two years after the banning of the PAC, …
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
… Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape . He was born … to be smoothed out. One was rugby…
ArchivePolitical Conflict and Civil Unrest in African Townships in Natal
ArchiveConcerned citizens invites you to panel discussion on what is happening in the townships
Offset litho; black; Concerned citizens : Invites you to Panel Discussion on : What is happening in the townships? : The road to Peace through dismantling…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… municipal townships – in Orlando and the Western Native Township the CPSA contested elections and established itself …
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four …
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
… of seven he was sent to live with his aunt in Alexander Township in Johannesburg. He started attending primary school …
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
… returned to Paarl. The FCWU built her a home in Mbekweni Township in Paarl. Elizabeth Mafeking died on 28 May 2009, …
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… moved from the Jeppe men's hostel to live in Alexandra Township where he remained until 1961. During this time he …
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… Xundu soon became involved in community issues in the township. Early in 1982, following talks of a rent hike, he …
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… intervention resource for traumatised children in the township. In 1977, she again was instrumental in the …
ArchiveThousands support stay-away call as anger rises in Transvaal townships
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… Political Work: Chairperson of the Dorcas Creche, Western Township, Johannesburg - 1979/81 Member of Western Purpose …
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… participation in the Native Representative Council and the township Advisory Boards. A year later, in 1949, Sobukwe was … At the time, Sobukwe was living in…
BiographyLesetja Kganyago
… Lesetja kganyago was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, in Gauteng Province in 1965. At the …
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
… Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education …
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… in running social development projects in Mpumalanga Township and as a result was elected as president of the …
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
… forcibly relocated from the Cape Town city centre to Langa Township under the Group Areas Act where she joined the …
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… of her deceased husband. Martins was born in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg. He attended school at St Joseph’s …
BiographyCharles Nupen
… the newspaper for various issues such as being in a Black township without a permit. Nupen was elected president SRC …
BiographyNokuthula Orela Simelane
… Nokuthula Orela Simelane was born in 1960 in Mzinoni Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga . She was the first of two …
BiographyJan van Eck
… to withdraw his claim that state agents were behind township attacks. At the height of repression, and with the …
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… the Croesus Cemetery in Newclare, Johannesburg. Kwa-Thema township outside Springs was named after him, as well as the …
BiographySimon Nkabinde
… on 30 November 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he …
BiographyMyron Peter
… carried out community programmes in the nearby coloured township of Wentworth. The ASH was part of the county wide …
BiographyBarbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
… eye of her grandmother, until she went back to Alexander Township in 1952. She was raised in a politically conscious …
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… military training and with having instigated unrest in the township of Kagiso, near Krugersdorp, on 17 June 1976, the …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… studying in boarding schools in Swaziland when ours are in township schools?” In July 1969, exactly five years after her … was removed, but she was…
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