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… stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu,India, had … United Nations Centre against Apartheid and author) quotes from an interview with Thambi Naidoo’s daughter Thailema: … in the Indian location and the Indian traders, not only from the location but those living in Market Street where …

… Mzukisi Sompeta (37) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He began working for … “Every month we received money for groceries and clothes from him. He was in the process of building us a house, which …

… Bongani Mdze (28) was from Jabavu, Mataliele in the Eastern Cape. He began working … killed at scene 2. He died after he the police shot him from behind 3 times – in the arm, lower leg and the back of …

… Art Centre, Durban in 1985 where he received encouragement from  Jo Thorpe  for his felttip pen drawings on paper. In … UZ (African Arts Festival). NSA, Durban (Selected works from UZ Festival of African Art). 1988: SA””tour (Cape Town …

… blew [his] mind because [he] recognised the sample from Good Times from a group called Chic.” [1] Ready D’s father used to … reason he became a DJ. [2] He was very influenced by music from overseas, as well as the hip hop culture. In the early …

… to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s from Pokroy, a small village in Lithuania and his mother, Andzia Maisels, from Lodz in Poland. He attended Marist Brothers’ preparatory … of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, graduating from the law school in 1927. He married Muriel Honor Maisels …

… in 1961 in Cape Town , where she was raised. Janet comes from a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, … throughout the Western Cape. After graduating in 1982 from UCT ,she was elected Secretary-General of the National … in 1989. She has faced constant repression and harassment from the security police and from right wing elements.  In …

… church leaders like Fr Trevor Huddleston, Desmond Tutu, Beyers Naudé, Frank Chikane  and others had spoken out …   O’Malley P. ‘1968’ , from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog , [online], …

… been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984, and former presidents FW de Klerk and Nelson …

… such as Chief Albert Luthuli, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela had …

… strike. This venture ended with striking workers being led from the diamond fields under armed guard. Blacklisted from working on diggings, la Guma drifted through several … up its official organ, the Worker's Herald, published from April 1923 onwards. It was in the ICU of the early 1920s …

… He quit the job and acquired a few acres of land on lease from a White private landowner, in the district of Rooikopjes, inland from Durban, where he started farming on a small scale, until … also against the  provincial barriers which barred Indians from Natal entering other provinces of South Africa , and …

… 50 km South-West of Graaff-Reinet  and only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth. Aberdeen was founded when the … 'Brakkefontein' had been bought for this purpose by Jan Vorster. A Village soon sprang up around the new church, and … Sarah Baartman District Municipality. Only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth, it is one of the Victorian Architectural …

… man 2 in the area. Around the age of 10, suffering from an infection, Kamau was taken to the Church of Scotland … and determined to join the mission school. He ran away from home to become a resident pupil at the mission, studying … enrolled at a college for a year. Kenyatta would stay away from Kenya for the next 15 years. Having completed his course …

… The racial divides of the time prevented his parents from marrying and Tsafendas was led to understand that his … in Mozambique and South Africa. In 1947, he was deported from the United States to Greece, which then was in the midst … entered Mozambique illegally but was arrested and exiled from the country of his birth and returned to Lisbon. Unable …

… The service was officially opened by Prime Minister B.J. Vorster, who warned against slanted news and unbalanced … Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , Westport: Greenwood.|Wallis, …

… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to … readily available supply of labour, but had to be far away from white residential areas. The Homelands were: Transkei -- Xhosa (given "independence" in 26 October, 1976) Ciskei -- Xhosa (given "independence" in 4 December, …

… was Mantatisi, who was expelled by King  Shaka Zulu  from the area he had conquered. In 1821 his father attacked a … their headman and retaliation followed by the Amahlubi from Natal. The Batlokwa people fled taking along small …

… 1930's when the White Government started separating Blacks from Whites . Blacks were moved away from Johannesburg, to an … became the largest Black City in South Africa, but until 1976 its population could have status only as temporary … during the Apartheid regime. There were serious riots in 1976 , sparked by a ruling that Afrikaans be used in African …

… of subservience, he plotted to free himself and his people from Shaka's influence. In June 1822, Shaka sent Mzilikazi's … ‘maTebele', a name they used for all people who came from the coast, whereas the Nguni-speakers called themselves … Mzilikazi expanded his kingdom, which by then stretched from the Vaal River in the south to the confluence of the …

… to a two bedroomed cottage in Wesley Street and it was from here that Peter would walk to the Boys Mission School … the very beautiful watercolour: “Towards Simon’s Town from St James”.  A comment by his domestic worker sister to … some of Peter’s work and word of this talented young man from Simon’s Town started to spread.  Mathys Bokhorst, the …

… as a shop assistant in a hardware store (A.Baker Bros) from 1946-48, and later as a bookkeeper for an accounting … and by the impact of the passive resistance campaign held from 1946-48 against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian … of MK. He actively participated in its sabotage campaign from its inception on 16 December 1961 until his arrest in …

… and lost. In 1965, shortly after the family returned from a European holiday, his South African passport was … districts. As a result, the restrictions prevented him from doing his work. Professor JF Brock led the protests … by the Apartheid government came into effect. Debarred from practising academic medicine in his own country, …

… Hendrik Pierneef was born on 13 August 1886 in Pretoria from Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career … to the young aspiring artist to hear the good comments from the public. Pierneef married Agatha Delen a woman 12 years his senior against all advice from both families on 16 February 1910. Pierneef was 23 and …

… to Abrahams being elected as the acting general secretary from 1956 to 1964. After the Annual Congress of the Union, … around they detained her for months and then expelled her from Cape Town. Liz continued to hide me until the message … were banned. At the time almost all our people were banned from top to bottom because they said that our union was a red …

… abdomen Allie, Abduraghman Ravensmead 7.9.76 Shot in chest from front Appolis, Christopher Menenberg 16 10.9.76 Shot in … David 26.12.76 Leroke, Hermina  Soweto  26.12.77 Lesele, Tutu John Langa 45 11.8.76 Shot in calf, buttock and chest … Soweto 26.12.76 Madupe, Johannes Disappeared during June 1976 in Ga-Rankuwa. Police have no further records Maepa, …

… physician in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's … Freda ran her husband's photographic business from their home, which was also later used as a safe house … had pitched his tent when clandestinely taking evidence from the Hereros and others. In 1952, Freda became involved …

… Indochina (today known as Vietnam). He was dismissed from the post, when he was found to be conducting trade in … ships with fresh goods and water. van Riebeeck set off from Texel, Netherlands on 24 December 1651 and arrived in … supplies to their shipping fleets on their way to and from the Dutch East Indies. van Riebeeck's specific …

… His father, Abraham Joffe, a businessman, had come from Latvia and his mother, Dena (nee Idelson), from Palestine. After a Catholic boarding school, the Marist … integrity, vision and solidarity”. Neeshan Balton, from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, said, Kathrada, in his …

… first congregation was at Bensonvale near Herschel. From there he was transferred to Cape Town where he quickly … of his successor as ANC president-general,  J.T. Gumede . From 1929 to 1930 he was therefore instrumental in ousting Gumede from his leadership position. Simultaneously Mahabane was …