SAHO global search

1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… Africa around 1903 as an alleged supporter of Ethiopianism or African religious separatism. Booth had in the meantime … Booth put this plan rejected it,…

B-0007868

1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… arrested and Letele was sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment or a £3 fine. When he refused to pay the fine he was … jail he was not allowed to associate with…

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… of the committee had been members of former CPSA Central or District Committees. Once the reply to the 'liquidator' … with the fact that when his “banning”…

B-0096208

1922-2004

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

… - and much of what is known of her comes from his words or the words of their contemporaries. As a result, it is … 1946. [9] Their house had three rooms,…

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James Ford

… of Ford exhibiting on a SASA exhibition either before or after 1902, even though he is listed as a member in 1904. … The possibility chat he exhibited with…

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1770

Chief Dingiswayo

… is known about Dingiswayo's (also known as Godongwana or Ngodongwa) life. But as far as we know, towards the end of … Instead, young men were assembled into…

B-0067421

1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… to the Fort Prison in Johannesburg and fined one pound or 10 days labour. In an interview with Luli Callilinicos Du … Du Toit started writing a book titled…

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1931-1989

Richard Rive

… Town, and grew up in District Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of a …

B-0008959

John Moshoeu

… Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly known for his …

B-0099380

1959

Connie September

… worker in Salt River with little interest in politics or trade unions. This changed in 1982, when she attended a …

B-0096276

Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… by the government. He was forbidden from meeting with one or more people at a time and he was not permitted to publish or be quoted. In the aftermath of the…

B-0073829

1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… of communist party members who constituted the left wing or nationalist Block of the Natal Indian Congress . The group … a long two-storey block, cells…

B-0125363

1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… and came from a cultural tradition that did not write or keep records. Secondly, the Cezar families experienced … a baby rhinoceros. Her “trainer” would…

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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… the legislation that would not allow Indian people to live or enter the province. During his time as MP he only had to … to make sure that people would not…

B-0007948

1969

Ernest “Ernie” Theodore Els

… Ernest Theodore Els or “ Big Easy ” as he is affectionately known in the sporting …

B-0008045

1931-1994

Lucas Ted Sithole

… “small”. He disliked that name and called himself Ted or Teddy, a name reflected in the signature of one of his …

B-0009074

1936-1999

Bobby Hendricks

… a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). Later, he founded his own band, Bobby Hendricks …

B-0008152

2012

Patrick Akhona Jijase

… the police. I thought he would either get the pay increase or be dismissed from work.” …

B-0121637

1915-2004

David Wilcox Bopape

… to find that in the Communist Party there was no race or gender discrimination. In the late 1940s, he also served … Bopape continued with political work,…

B-0007870

1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… Pinetown and prevented from visiting any African, coloured or Indian area, except Reservoir Hills. He had to report … station and was prohibited from…

B-0008038

1970

Leleti Khumalo

… of youth being tortured by South Africa’s security police or just disappeared and never to be heard of or found. Until she auditioned for the play, Khumalo…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… also told his fellow workers that he was part of ‘some or other “Congress,”’ which will soon end this exploitation. … could move around the village but was…

B-0094271

1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… reporters, while black newspapers were either very small or controlled by white business interests, often featuring … and political and systemic injustice…

B-0068169

Molefe Pheto

… Ngadile" which loosely translates to "they are sulking" or as others would say “they have thrown in the towel” in … and his forefathers before him have …

B-0122658

Mabel Balfour

… in the April Stay-At Home and sentenced to £20 or 30-days hard labour for "inciting non-white workers on the …

B-0007810

2012

Telang Mohai

… downwards, which means he was either shot from above or while lying down. He was the sole breadwinner in his …

B-0121629

1939-2025

Sunny Girja Singh

… area, so he ended up going to primary school at about 11 or 12 years. He completed his primary schooling (Standard six … Durban and detained at a police…

B-0124272

1945

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

…  and 20 other people were being held without charge or trial. The protest was against detention without charge or trial. For leading the march he and others…

B-0008267

1787-1828

Shaka Zulu

… in the hallowed locality known as the EmaKhosini or Burial-place of the Kings, where Senzangakhona's … a chiefdom resisted, it was conquered and either…

B-0009265

1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… and he was not deterred by the hostility of employers or by harassment from the security police who were carrying … the majority of leading officials…

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