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… Born: Johannesburg, 1976. Attended the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg and …

… Sobukwe: Books : Time for Azania by Robert Sobukwe, 1976 (pdf) Speeches : Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April …

… disappeared both socially and physically, in a building from which those inside could not see out and those outside … 250 children off the ship. As a result they were separated from their parents who were take to Brazil and by the time … 77 enslaved Madagascan children were landed at the Cape from the slave ship Voorhout. A further group of Madagascan …

… Journal article containing a speech presented by Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of …

… . He became the assistant editor of the Gaurdian . From November 1952 to October 1953 he was a Natives' … He succeeded Sam Kahn and like Kahn, he was expelled from the Parliament because of his SACP membership. He was … the 1960 State of Emergency).Bunting faced banning orders from 1952, he was detained in 1960 and placed under house …

… at Fort Hare University and obtained a BA(FA) (1982) from that university. In 1989 he obtained an Advanced Diploma in Adult Education from the UN and in 1996 participated in an Advanced Business … Between 1983 and 1986 he taught at Mzuvele High School. From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of …

… family of 10. A consistent concern for human justice stems from Asmal’s childhood. Like the vast majority of South … was as a teenager when a White shop-owner barred him from buying a newspaper. A transformative moment in his … to study law at London school of Economics. He graduated from the London School of Economics four years later.  After …

… English.  Vearey found concentrating a challenge in school from a young age but was extremely active. He played rugby … and he helped his father selling meat and veggies from horse cart. His mother, Annette Vearey, was a trade … a result, she was constantly fired due to labour disputes from various textile factories in the northern suburbs. GAWU …

… World War. David was born on a farm approximately 25km from Pietersburg (now Polokwane). He grew up shepherding his … a ‘Blanket Campaign’ for a raise in teachers’ salaries from five pounds a month. During the march, the teachers were … 1943 – 1944, when thousands walked eighteen miles to and from work rather that submit to an increase in bus fares from …

… He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from the University in 1973.  By the time he received his … In 1975 he received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Cambridge University, where he was the first recipient … received a Doctorate in Philosophy in Creative Writing from the University of Denver in 1983. He served as President …

… and headed for Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). From Bechuanaland, he made his way to Accra, Ghana, in an airlift organised to take refugees away far from the claws of the apartheid regime whose secret service … at the time. It was Mrs Bing who organised the airlift from Botswana and arranged for a one-way passport for …

… history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to … economy depended on the sale of clay pots to people from Brits and Pretoria. The pots were made from a red clay soil from a mountain in Mmakau and sold at …

… purposes. She was to receive a ‘portion of earnings’ from her exhibitions and be allowed to return to South Africa … dubious. The first is that she was illiterate and came from a cultural tradition that did not write or keep records. … a metre and half high. She became an attraction for people from various parts of Europe. During her time with Dunlop and …

… first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which … Abner Nyamede recognizes in Mgqwetho\'s poetry quotations from the Moravian liturgy: she may well have been educated in … on 20 May and 14 October 1897, both signed Cizama (coming from Tamara near Mount Coke between King Willliam's Town and …

… Indian Child Welfare Association. Moodley matriculated from Sastri College, Durban, in 1964. He then enrolled at the … party, was reason enough for the authorities to expel him from the University. However, it was a known fact that the … not do anything to stop as it had gained enormous interest from the public. Having been expelled from university, …

… with other leaders of the SRC Makiwane spearheaded a march from Fort Hare to Alice in 1958 against theTreason Trial. He … Emergency declared that year, the government expelled him from PE. He then went to East London where the government … went, he skipped the country and went to exile in Lesotho. From Lesotho he was transported together with other members …

… in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to Mamelodi where his political life began. One … became interested in current events and read extensively from the Rand Daily Mail and the Star . During this period, he became friends with a certain Makhubela from Springs. The two travelled together en route to work. …

… Representative Council and served as its president from 1952 to 1954. He was also vice-president of the National … newspapers, although often critical of their shortcomings. From Cape Town he moved to Durban where he joined the Bar … police.  He took silk in 1967 and was Chairman of the Bar from 1973 to 1975. He served as an acting Judge of the Natal …

… the same year the National Party  (NP) came into power. From an early age, Kies knew that she wanted to become a … prominent activist. In 1956, her husband was dismissed from teaching for life because of his involvement in the … Communism Act ” in 1959, meaning he also had to step down from his role as editor of the TLSA. That same year Mrs Kies …

… committed to regaining his ancestral home. Moving west from Ngqika's kraals, he slipped back into the so-called … River. Despite taking every effort to placate the Whites from his position, Maqoma was hounded continually by colonial raids and expelled from his territory in 1829, the year Ngqika died. In 1834, …

… to study in the United States. He began with a B.A. from Oberlin, followed by an M.A. from Northwestern and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His academic field was anthropology; his field …

… the Ceza district where he received training as an inyanga from both his grandfathers and his father.  From the 1950s he recorded Zulu cultural and religious myths … father who trained him how to protect people’s homesteads from lightning. He also trained Madela in smithery, a …

… held in prison for two weeks she was finally acquitted from the marathon  Treason Trial , along with 91 others in October 1958. In 1959 she was banned from attending meetings and ordered to resign from 26 organisations. After the Sharpeville massacre in …

… movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism, from Rhodes University in Grahamstown in 1979. The South … her skills and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1996. She has worked as the group … provide daily copy for the chain. She came to the position from another Independent newspaper, the Daily News, where she …

… Maduna Abednego was released from Robben Island prison on 8 October 1973. His prison number was 1/5392. He was from Zwelithsa Township in King Williamstown. …

… The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in … The Fantastical History of a Useless Man. Inspired by the 1976 Soweto uprising , the play was created as a response to …

… Mkhonza Abner was released from Robben Island prison on the 18th of October 1981. His prison number was 114/7477. He was from Katlehong. …

… Sithole Thembinkosi Abner was released from Robben Island prison on the 27th of February 1986. His prison number was 15/3271. He was from Durban. …

… to widen the struggle and mobilise supporters from the wider black community. One such organisation, … BC annual, titled Black Review, was published from 1972 to 1976. Biko, together with Thoko Mbanjwa and a small team, was … Mbanjwa went on to edit the 1974-5 edition, while the 1976-77 edition was edited by Asha Rambally after Mbanjwa was …

… Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a … his legal career. A member of the Cape Town City Council from 1943 to 1952, he was elected to Parliament by the … a Communist. In 1954 he visited Russia. Prohibited in 1954 from attending gatherings, he was subsequently convicted of …