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… of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion joined the American Board for … in South Africa. The missionaries and their wives sailed from Boston, Massachusetts to Cape Town on 3 December 1834 … Newton Adams arrived in Port Natal (present-day Durban) from Cape Town on “The Dove” and proceeded to the capital of …

… when Autshomao reclaimed cattle that were unfairly taken from the Gorinhaikonas people by the Dutch. In 1659, after … fellow escapees are the only people to successfully escape from Robben Island. Autshomao died in 1663. In 1713, Francois … Valentyn recorded that the Goringhaikonas had disappeared from Cape Town. He attributed this to the small pox epidemic …

… descent, and Katherine Anderson, a descendant of a slave from the St Helena Islands. Her parents and family … of her father’s protection over his wife and children from the racism that they were exposed to. Mary also had … and married William Alexander Moodley and they relocated from Modderbee to Benoni. They had four children: Douglas, …

… where he passed his Junior Certificate. He matriculated from Sastri College in Durban in 1959. As a child, Ebrahim … twice witnessed his father's arrest and deportation from the Transvaal for crossing the provincial border into … in June 1950, Ebrahim was distributing their leaflets. From 1952 Ebrahim's involvement increased substantially with …

… to another safe house in Kloof. Eleanor, on her way back from Johannesburg, again on another errand for Ronnie’s unit, … and interrogated daily.  She eventually managed to escape from the Security Police by getting herself admitted to Fort … Napier, a mental asylum, she feigned a mental breakdown. From there she smuggled out a letter to Ronnie warning him …

… and crayons. The young Pemba became notorious for escaping from the drudgery of schoolwork into his private world of … undisguised racial hostility.  Despite indifference from the mainstream art world which regarded his work at best as colloquial, and antipathy from the apartheid government which, given the pre-ordained …

… Cape Town to continue his education. In 1905 he graduated from Zonnebloem College with a T.3 certificate, which was the … in 1907. His hard work earned him a study bursary from the Department of Education and he applied to the Rhodes … was rejected on the same grounds.This did not prevent him from attempting to study elsewhere. His application to the …

… Allan Boesak, Frank Chikane, Beyers Naude and Desmond Tutu, to urge the US Administration to lift the State of …

… cannon. The petition was later delivered by Archbishop Tutu to State President P W Botha. This is the text of the …

… Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in Pietersburg … He obtained his senior certificate through private studies from Damelin College in Johannesburg. Dingake joined the  …  would be there.  Dingake went to warn him to escape from that place because people they knew were being arrested. …

… the first part of his life exclusively to education. From Lovedale, where Tshekedi Khama was his fellow student, … African Studies and was promoted to the post of professor. From 1936 to 1939 he was a research fellow of the … of the South African Institute of Race Relations , and from 1942 to 1950, the Natives' Representative Council (NRC). …

… in 1968, to major in languages. Under surveillance from the Portuguese secret police, she was forced to abandon … gaining ground in the struggle against colonialism from the Portuguese. When Machel arrived in Tanzania from Europe, she found an efficiently run FRELIMO …

… heard evidence detailing the nature and activities of Poqo from 7 December 1962 to 13 March 1963. On 22 November 1962, … armed with axes, machetes and home-made weapons, marched from the Mbekweni location to Paarl in its most determined … retrospective legislation. Minister of Justice B. J. Vorster subsequently created a retroactive 90 day detention …

… were involved in the historic turning point that 16 June 1976 became. These South African students, parents, … across the country. They made their contributions (from positive to destructive) leading up to the day, on the …

… HRH Princess Ntandoyesizwe Zulu (by Queen Mantfombi), born 1976, married 13th April 2002 at Enyokeni Royal Palace, … 25 March 1973, Acting Deputy Paramount Chief of the Thembu from 2000, Chief of the Matye’ngqina Traditional Authority … of Zulu kings gives a list of Zulu chieftains and kings from their earliest known history up to the current …

… Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New York from 1963-65. In 1983 she was awarded an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (UCT). … of community or aspects of contemporary history as told from the perspectives of individuals. Her work extends from …

… and Poqo, which had gone underground by now. On June 16, 1976 , Soweto students’ revolted against the use of Afrikaans … gatherings were banned and television cameras were banned from filming in areas where there was political unrest. An … government, limited resources, the great distance from home, amongst many other problems. The Government used …

… the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe, who had learnt the skills from the mother of her common-law husband (Nesta Nala’s … Nesta Nala has raised and supported her family entirely from the production of pottery (Garrett, 1997:2). Nesta Nala …

… major work.  The History of Native Policy in South Africa from 1830 to the Present Day  (1924). While describing … the Joint Council and Oxford movements, and was principal from 1933 to 1945 of the influential missionary school known … 1952 he survive a heart attack and after that he resigned from the senate and returned to teaching.In 1954 he became …

… in the 1984 Olympic games as South Africa had been banned from competing before the start of the Tokyo Olympic games in … Budd eventually finished seventh, while Decker was carried from the track side. Although the International Amateur … to claim this magnificent feat. As South Africa was banned from competing in any sporting code with other countries, the …

… settled in Durban; trained as engineer; drew and painted from an early age 1924 Joined NSA (President 1937, 1946, 1949 … ill and painted very little thereafter. Lived in Durban from 1912, but traveled widely across Southern Africa; camped … reproduced locally by E Schweikerdt (Pty) Ltd; and one from the collection of King Haakon VII of Norway was …

… completed a BA degree in 1956 and later began law studies. From 1954 until 1957, when his arrest for treason precluded … secretary for the Youth League. He was discharged from the Treason Trial late in1957.  In April 1959 he was … entering the University of Zambia in 1968, he was deported from Zambia along with other PAC leaders. …

… East Griqualand, and then studied at Lovedale high school from 1911 to 1917.His father was reverend and his mother a … at Ohlange Institute near Durban, where he was headmaster from 1922 to 1927,the school was founded by John Dube. He was … during the 1940s and served as treasurer of the Cape ANC from the 1940s through 1954. He was one of the directors of  …

… lines. Mine owners treated white workers differently from black workers. Prisoners were forced to do hard labour. … as group D, worked in cages, meant to prevent them from assaulting each other. On 29 December 1982, several … were more appropriate to unskilled and outdoor work. John Vorster , minister of Justice at that time, saw this as …

… Aziz Pahad served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999-2008, and later became an MP for Johannseburg West … while Essop Pahad was Minister in the Presidency from 1999 to September 2008. In November of 1963 Dinat … Indian Youth Congress since childhood and had also come from a highly politicised family. Her family’s home in …

… Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. … Tugela River in 1857. Mpande tried to prevent Cetshwayo from threatening his power, and he again appealed to both the … Mpande ceded in 1854) and the Boers wanted to get land from the Zulu for a road from Utrecht to St. Lucia Bay on the …

… the South African Council for Higher Education (SACHED). From 1978-1982, she was the editor and a photographer at … researching, collecting and copying illustrative material from many sources and working on the editing and design of … artists' children who were former artists and exiles from South Africa. Her video documentary process entails …

… demonstrations against the planned removal of residents from Walmer. Banning orders are placed on all three on their … violent racial disturbances beginning in Soweto in June 1976, and covering the period to February 1977. The report … The government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Anglican General Secretary of the South African …

… 29 October 2014]|‘Africa Day Protest in Cape Town’ from the Cape Times , 16 November [online] Available at …

… residence last Thursday. The tension had been apparent from the moment they entered the Students' Common Room. The … Local Chairman), Dave Hemson, Jennifer Brown and Veronica Vorster were greeted at the door by a 'Hello Baas, Hello … white oppression, was explicable but misplaced.' VERONICA VORSTER: 'As one of the UND students at the UND Student Body …