SAHO global search

1945-2025

David Hemson

… socially. He was drafted out of high school to the South African Army. (He was one of the few men at his school who … During his trip he spent a lot of time…

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1945

Omar Badsha

… of the Durban Students Union and was later drawn into the African National Congress (ANC) underground and worked with … Award, 1968, and "Images of Africa"…

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, later South African Communist Party  [SACP]) in 1921. Ruth and her … , JN Singh (executive member of both the …

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Wycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi

… President of the  All African Convention  (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the … AAC from 1936 and was instrumental in bringing the Cape African Teachers'…

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1886-1977

Mary Agard Pocock

… algae. During World War II  she was a member of the South African Women’s Auxiliary Service. Pocock was part of the South African Association of University…

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1913-1970

Debi Singh

… G M Naicker  to positions of leadership in the  South African Indian Congress . In 1946 he served as secretary of … the  Defiance Campaign  of 1952. An…

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… decision taken by the leadership of the NIC and the  South African Indian Congress (SAIC)  to work with the government … prompted much protest from the…

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14 January1918-1999

Dimitri Tsafendas

… South Africa illegally aged 20 and joined the South African Communist Party. He had already left for Canada as a seaman on a Greek freighter by the time the…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… prompted her to leave the country and she joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in exile in Zimbabwe . After … her time in exile that she became a…

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Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… for the eastern Transvaal. When the short-lived League of African Rights was set up by the  Communist Party (CPSA)  in … Pretoria . He was also active in the…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… and 1985,Gqweta was harassed by both Ciskeian and South African security police with repeated detentions and … to have all charges dropped in November…

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1905-1992

Helen Joseph

… worker, exposed her to some of the realities of South African life. After the war she took a job with the Garment … and Anna Scheepers. Helen was a founder…

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape … He was a defendant in the sedition…

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… under the title Between Two Worlds by Longman African Classics. In 1980, Tlali published her second novel … and 1990, Tlali was a visiting scholar at the…

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1938-2016

Judith Mason

… Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She matriculated from the Pretoria High … a short time. Her work became part of…

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1956

Murphy Morobe

… he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and moved around with the … read up on them at libraries. In…

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1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… and in 1973 he was appointed as chief of the South African Army. Then in 1976, he was also made chief of the South African Defense Force, becoming the…

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1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… and administer a scholarship fund to educate and skill the African National Congress (ANC) and UDF activists to develop … as Chief Operations Officer in the…

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1938

Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn

… Mbeki and others. She was a founder member of the South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU) , which is the predecessor of the Congress of South African…

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Stanley Silwana

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of South Africa … to the western Cape, where he became an organiser for the …

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1881-1951

Pixley ka Isaka Seme

… Native Union” is a document that mapped out a strategy for African people in reaction to developments designed to … of the time, Seme is considered the…

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1931-2015

Reggie Vandeyar

… Centre in Wemmer Pan, a safer place to swim. There he met African children and mingled with them. One day when he was … trade. At work he politicised a…

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Violet Weinberg

… in 1917. [3] Eli Weinberg, who was a member of the South African Communist Party (CPSA) , persuaded Violet to join the … South Africans without their passes…

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1947

Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

… Mandela Medical School). Ramphele won the 1968 South African Jewish Women’s Association Scholarship and the Sir … her studies at medical school She worked…

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1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… of religion lent their moral authority to enlisting African labourers, wagon drivers, scouts and hundreds of … and actively involved in proselytising its…

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1930-2018

David Goldblatt

… access to the mining operations of the most powerful South African company. This, in turn, allowed him, over the next … He also worked on a book about middle…

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

… State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr … School of Economics. Jordan worked in…

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