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1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

… Suppression of Communism Act by the Minister of Justice from attending meetings for six months. He was subsequently … be Gwentshe’s banished. On 6 July 1954…

B-0008137

1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from a working-class family in an impoverished rural area, … journalist, I expect no difficulty in…

B-0008741

1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… and appointed chairperson of the Johannesburg Bar Council from 1972 to 1973. Five years later, in 1977, he was called … of Court). When apartheid collapsed,…

B-0086256

1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… in borrowing books to read. All administration was done from there as well. During the first year she raised funds by … for contributions and in 1921…

B-0009237

1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… Piny, as her friends and family called her, had moved from the nearby boarding school at Mariazell to Lovedale and … had to travel several kilometres daily…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… Biko he said that it was essential to free the black man from his inferiority complex. From then on he believed that no measure of sacrifice would … was…

B-0068453

1949

Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso

… Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at … Italy. He then worked for the SABC…

B-0008497

1897-1974

Victor Poto

… succeeding United Transkeian Territories General Council. From 1937 until 1951 he was a nominated member of the NRC, … Matanzima's  ruling Transkei National…

B-0008909

2012

Michael Ngweyi

… Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin … He was responsible for everything in the household, from groceries,…

B-0121623

2012

Sitelega Meric Gadlela

… Sitelega Meric Gadlela (50) was from Dvokolwako in Swaziland. He began working for Lonmin in … According to his wife, Betty Gadlela, “My husband came from a…

B-0121630

1922-2003

Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker

… of the SAIC. He was a defendant in the Treason Trial from December 1956 until charges were withdrawn against him … the 1960 state of emergency and soon…

B-0068193

1962

Guy Tillim

… for his essay of images entitled: Congo River - journey from Kinsangani to Kinshasa. His work has been included in … in his approach. He tends to look at…

B-0009146

1787-1828

Shaka Zulu

… Information about Shaka's early years is gleaned entirely from oral sources. It is claimed that Shaka was born into … homestead of Nandi's uncle. Shaka's…

B-0009265

1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… procedures. In 1960, with the support of a bursary from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, he went to the Soviet … at the teaching hospitals of the University…

B-0007829

1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… and Resistance Conference and Festival in Gabarone. From 1977 up to the time of his arrest in 1983 under the … and the South African Communist (SACP) after…

B-0008455

1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… police wanted to detain him. This information was garnered from captured and exiled MK members who had implicated him in … Cuba and Vietnam. In 1964 he…

B-0067967

1860-1930

Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo

… stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu,India, had … United Nations Centre against Apartheid and…

B-0008737

1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… farm school where two teachers had the care of everyone from grade one to seven, all within one larger and … of family legend. Very soon after this Fischer…

B-0008070

1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… 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…

B-0068316

1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… 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…

B-0125398

1961

Janet Mary Cherry

… 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…

B-0007937

1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… 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…

B-0008386

2012

Makhosandile Mkhonjwa

… Makhosandile Mkhonjwa (28) was from Bizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin … support his siblings? I do not know where help will come from.”…

B-0121608

1981

Isaac Mofokeng

… year bought a second hand Yashica with the profits he made from photographing school and social events with his cousin's … camera. In 1999 he matriculated…

B-0008596

1894-1961

James la Guma

… strike. This venture ended with striking workers being led from the diamond fields under armed guard. Blacklisted from working on diggings, la Guma drifted…

B-0008292

Jomo Kenyatta

… 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…

B-0099749

14 January1918-1999

Dimitri Tsafendas

… 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…

B-0009157

1900-1984

Princess Magogo

… and John Blacking. She was also visited by musicologists from abroad, like David Rycroft from the school of African and Oriental studies in London, ……

B-0008371