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… He was the sole breadwinner in the family and left behind his wife, young daughter, mother, sister and 8 nieces and nephews.He was paying school fees for two of his nieces. According to his wife, Nombulelo Ntonga, "I was very worried, devastated …

… a wife and 3 children. He was also financially supporting his two brothers and his elderly mother. On 16 August 2012 Mr Mosebetsane was … scene 2 after being shot twice in the head. According to his brother, Nomakhephu Mosebetsane, "Thabiso's brother …

… Lennox Sebe was born on 26 June 1926. He completed his matric at the Lovedale College. Upon his completion he went to attend a teachers college. Sebe had … got 26 votes to 24 of Mabandla to become Chief Minister. His support came mainly from government appointed chiefs. …

… (Silas Modiri) was born in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong … the primary focus was the history of the Batswana. On his return to South Africa he commenced his practice in Mafikeng and from the beginning he …

… Mashabane had been involved in student politics at his university.Mr Mashabane's parents said that he had disappeared from his home on 1st October.They were unaware of his death.The Johannesburg mortuary alleged that he had …

… was killed at scene 2 after being shot in the back of his head by the police. He left behind his young wife and two children, including a new-born baby. He was also financially supporting his mother and niece at the time of his death. According to …

… Matsepe came from a non-Christian family, he received his education at mission schools. From 1942 to 1949 he received his primary school education at Phokoane United Christian School at Nebo. In 1945, however, his schooling was interrupted to enable him to attend …

… Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black … marches, petitions and meetings to fight against the apartheid regime. [5] This league also aimed to enable white women to become a part of the struggle against apartheid. However, regardless of their marches against the …

… President of the Transvaal Indian Association. He received his early education at St Cyprian's School and the Wesleyan Methodist School in Johannesburg. In 1904 his father sent him to Bihar in India, where tutors were … Jagrani Devi. He returned to South Africa in 1912 with his wife and baby son, Ramdutt. A year after his return to …

… at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a lecturer at the Watergraafsmeerse … Schoolvereniging in the east of Amsterdam. One of his responsibilities was to conduct a children's choir. … him to the country and its music. In 1960, Bouws and his wife immigrated to South Africa and he was appointed …

… Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His mother had supported his family by working as a typist for the “coloured” … Orange Free State (now Free State Province) while his father completed his studies in theology at the …

… when Zimbabwe gained independence, Chifunyise returned to his country of birth, where he began working as Program … recognition of the arts in post independence Zimbabwe. In his paper ‘Trends in Zimbabwean Theatre Since 1980’, … of the Arts (HIFA) in 2011 and remained a member all his life. Chifunyise’s playwriting career was prolific, his …

… nature. Greg Marinovich, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in South Africa in the early 1990’s, wrote, "In South … was fueled by the government. Writing in 2000 Desmund Tutu wrote about: a sinister third force somehow linked to … Tambo led the ANC from exile while the other leaders of his generation were incarcerated. Botha was the second to …

… grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After completing his teacher's diploma at Adams Colege, Amanzimtoti in 1941, … taught at Slangspruit, in the Pietermaritzburg area. Among his students was Moses Mabhida  secretary, who later became a … 1960 and again 1963, Gwala became active underground until his arrest in 1964 for sabotage and for recruiting members …

… was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese shop in  … Joe was three years old he left Johannesburg along with his mother, who was expecting her second child. They returned to Limpopo where his brother was also born. Mafela’s family moved to Kliptown, …

… he set up a studio in London after the First World War. His career in England was punctuated by return visits to … equivalents, in a sense, of the gypsies of rural Britain. His ‘native’ sitters are rendered with a similar tinge of … of the ‘native study’, went in pursuit of the African in his ‘natural’ state.  The anonymity of the large number of …

… of the British Empire and the Boer republics. Despite his misgivings about war with Britain, De la Rey did his duty. Kruger sent his ultimatum, and when war was declared, De la Rey was …

… Jack, a domestic worker. When Jack was six years old, his family moved to the farm Klipdrift near Oyster Bay.  Jack … completed Standard Four.  As he had no permit to continue his schooling in Humansdorp, he completed Standard Five and … then went to Port Elizabeth to stay with an uncle.  Upon his arrival, he was told that he could not attend school as …

… 1 after being shot 14 times by the police, including in his head, neck, legs, buttock, elbow, calf and thighs. He left behind his wife and five young children, as well as his sister and niece who also depended on him for financial …

… Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter Scott and Jacob van … political differences with Du Toit led him to quit his position and he returned to the Karoo, where he started …

… After qualifying as a medical doctor in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a … He was the second Black doctor to do so. Most of his patients came from the surrounding Black townships. The appalling conditions in which his patients lived, caused him to be involved in political …

… the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished the Black resistance … that was to become a force in the 1970s. Influenced by the American Black Power movement, the likes of Malcolm X, and … in South Africa as the BCM. From 17 years of age, up until his death on 12 September 1977, Biko had an illustrious …

… shop. It was, of its kind, one of the best on the Reef. His customer base was extraordinarily mixed. While concession … There were only two days a year when the mines didn't work: Good Friday and Christmas Day. But for the rest they … Southerners and my photographs weren't explicitly about apartheid, which was becoming a buzzword. They were …

… Valve” was born in Soweto, Johannesburg on 26 June 1967. His father Eliakim “Pro” Khumalo, was a renowned footballer in the 1970s and 1980s. When Khumalo began his soccer career, he was mentored by his father. His first team as a professional player was with …

… in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for  … Pirates  in the 1960s, died from a car crash. At the time his mother abandoned him. Sono met his mother again when he was 34 years old through a newspaper …

… who had been trained as a carpenter by the Jesuits. His mother, Bona, belonged to the Shona ethnic group and … greatly affected the family and Mugabe in particular. His father abandoned the family and went to Bulawayo after … Mugabe’s father remarried and abandoned supporting his family. Mugabe became the oldest child in the depressed …

… November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During this … J G Strijdom  and  H F Verwoerd  who frequently visited his father. In 1954, he married Anna, H F Verwoerd’s …

… to Pretoria. He was later brought back to Namibia for his trial. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island where he remained until his release on 11 May 1984. Upon his return to Namibia, Shikomba worked for the Council of …

… 1975 and grew up in Duduza Township with a single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his mother died during the ritual of Sangoma training) His father was a welder at Union Carriage and did freelance …

… Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined … the US government,” he says. “He was friends with Desmond Tutu and Miriam Makeba, who went to the same teacher training … his opposition by writing articles about South Africa’s apartheid regime for a respected left-wing journal in New …