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… Peterson was not the first person to be killed in the 1976 Soweto uprising, a new book sensationally claims. …

… plagued Indian political organisations and prevented them from making common cause with Africans. In 1939 he was … to the national council of the Non-European United Front. From 1945 until 1950 he was a member of the central committee … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African …

… art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he started attending art classes offered … 2001 and 2002. In responding to the theme, Xaba has drawn from his own experience of traditional healing. Zamani has …

… her husband had been issued a government order banning him from the Reef for 12 months, she moved with him to Cape Town … a tram and bus workers' strike. In August 1933, suffering from a weak heart, she left South Africa with her husband and …

… who was carrying out surveys of the southern sky. From 1841 to 1848 he surveyed an area stretching from Namaqualand to Cape Agulhas to redetermine calculations …

… in Cape Town. He joined the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period in Paris in 1939. He …

… and official of the Location Advisory Boards Congress, and from 1935 to 1937 a member of the executive committee of the  … Council for the rural areas of the Cape Province from 1937 to 1942. In 1935 Imvo was bought by the Bantu Press … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African …

… of 1755. However, historians have reconstructed story from chronicles written in the sixteenth century, from near-contemporary maps, and from the stone pillars or padroes which the explorers raised …

… branch in 1952. The following year he was suspended from teaching because of his participation in the Defiance … white communists. This increasingly led to antagonism from the Africanist in the ANC, especially  P K Leballo , who … and Natives (Urban Areas) Act, however, prevented him from occupying rooms in the same building as other …

… is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home when he was ten years old and went coal mining in … in England. Because of his injuries he was discharged from the army on 13 September 1918 and was granted a military … a timberman and occasionally as a machine operator. Apart from being a paid-up member of the South African Mine …

… After leaving high school he worked at Huletts Sugar Mill from 1974 until 1981. Nunn joined  Afrapix  in the 1980s. In … election for the  Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) . From 1998 to 2000 he served as director of the Market … taken in the Natal, Nunn's birthplace. In Camera – Photos from post-Apartheid South Africa, created in collaboration …

… a key role in planning the daring and dramatic escape from Marshall Square — in Johannesburg—police cells of her … Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat. The sensational prison break from Marshall Square has become known as South Africa’s Great … followed. Wolpe was kept overnight, in a cell across from Ruth First . Fearing re-arrest, she had no option but to …

… schools. He interrupted his education when he ran away from school in 1901 and joined the British troops stationed … Certificate in 1907 and then qualified as a teacher. From the end of 1910 he taught in the Pietersburg district … Pietersburg mine recruiting office for three years, and from 1915 in Johannesburgin the office of the attorney  …

… at the University of Stellenbosch, and later graduated from the University of Cape Town with a LL.B. degree. After … Central Committee. On 12 September 1989, bullets fired from a passing car struck Lubowski as he alighted from his vehicle, briefcase in hand, in front of his home in …

… newspaper about the plight of the Cape Coloureds appeared from 1904 to 1905. Through his work as reporter, Black became … colourful low-life in the Cape Town Magistrate's Courts, from which he derived much of his zestful, tangy style of … dozen scripts over the years. The annual season, which ran from October to June, started either in Cape Town or …

… the name changed to South African Communist Party (SACP)] from the 1940s. As an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar, he … call for a Congress of the People. In 1954, he was banned from attending all gatherings under the Suppression of … order. He watched the proceedings through binoculars from a nearby rooftop. In December 1956, Slovo, together with …

… Tugela River in 1856. Mpande tried to prevent Cetshwayo from threatening his power, and he again appealed to both the … system and tried to stem the diffusion of power away from the crown and out to the izikhulu (territorial chiefs). … Boers the additional land. The extra territory extended from Rorke’s Drift on the Buffalo River to a point on the …

… and distinctions that set apart one group of people from another. The most common characteristics distinguishing … the ‘Rainbow Nation’, made popular by Archbishop Desmond Tutu  in 1994, is the most important symbols used to promote …

… Council (SRC). A year later, he was suspended from UNITRA for political activities. After he was suspended, … as the vehicle passed. He thought no more of it, apart from noting the coincidence of the registration number: XS … told others, and they ensured that he emerged safely from the police station.  Lungisile Ntsebeza strode into the …

… his interrogation and his death, until the security police from the old government are prepared to redeem themselves … the 22nd person to die in police custody, had jumped from the 10th floor of John Vorster Square while being interrogated by security police. …

… home and abroad for her dedication she deserves it all." (From Marina Grut's book T he History of Ballet in South … big and their productions too lavish and unwieldy to move from their designated performing spaces in Johannesburg, Cape … own personal contribution to these tours, which ranged from organiser, administrator and coordinator through to …

… to rent property or land in the Transvaal, were prohibited from purchasing land. Later his father sold bicycles, but … Indian Social Welfare Agency. He began moving away from teaching, which he had come to dislike as a result of … and said that the Group Areas Act did not stop somebody from renting a house in another area if there were none to …

… at Luckoff High School in Stellenbosch, not too distant from his home town, Paarl, where he taught for the rest of … and Pniel. The Boland branch, which drew its membership from all these areas, became a key component of the APDUSA … however, shortlived, for in 1965 Nkrumah was displaced from power in a military coup and UMSA members in Ghana were …

… Transvaal.  However, sometime, in late 1958 he escaped from Sibasa, and undertook a horrendous journey through … PAC in 1978. However, when  Nyathi Phokela  was released from Robben Island prison, and reunited with PAC leaders in … Make was married to American writer and poet Maya Angelou from 1960-1963, during his time in Cairo. Make also held the …

… the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) from the mid-1930s to 1945, when militants took over the … affairs of the NIC with a few hand picked Muslim friends. From this time onwards, the personal relationship between … this period, he conducted the work of the Congress from his business premises. Moreover, even after the Hindu …

… an active member of the  Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC) from its inception. He served as the Joint Secretary of the … to elaborate on the campaign, to explain what was expected from the people and to emphasise the need for direct … introduction of Bantu Education, the threat of removals from Western Areas and local grievances. Esakjee recalls the …

… School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London from 1909 to about 1911. While in London, she befriended … originally housed the college. The stage was constructed from ordinary classroom platforms, and Everyman's grave was … of the programme while Freund presented dramatic excerpts from As you like it and other Shakespearean plays. Their …

… sentence, suspended for two years. He was also prevented from leaving Kimberley until August 1953 as part of his bail … and was released on 19 July 1960. Although he was released from jail he was not allowed to associate with any … or attend any meetings or gatherings without permission from the Kimberley magistrate. The most prominent condition …

… all facets of the Party's work, and after being dismissed from a job for attending the founding conference of the … involved in its organisation and recruited about 175 women from Cape Town . After another banning order in April 1954, she was forced to resign from FEDSAW . Alexander Simons married Eli Weinberg in 1937, …

… he was also raised. His parents emigrated to South Africa from Gujarat. Chiba abandoned secondary school to help … implicate his comrades. Unable to extract any information from him, they were unable to lay charges. Chiba was released … imprisonment time he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South Africa,served for some time in …