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BiographyProfessor Harold Jack Simons
… a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration … a new policy whose effect was to prevent…
BiographyLucas Radebe
… organs were damaged and the incident would not prevent him from returning to soccer. It is not known who shot him, but … that the shooters might have been…
BiographyThembile Benson Ndimba
… politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten and one of Korsten's … in politics in 1937 during the mass…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… would be a refuge for runaway slaves and a safe haven from European conquest for over two centuries after her … Ngola, and acted as a monarch and ruling…
BiographyPatricia Jobodwana
… was the first and youngest Black woman to graduate from a South African university. She enrolled at Fort Hare … Youngest Black women to graduate from a South…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… of our story. 1 It provides us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this conclusion, look back and make … little ANC operational strategy…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… out against the injustices of the Apartheid regime. In 1976, the Apartheid government exiled Father Lapsley for his … (ANC) as well as for the support of…
BiographyAlexander Leor Fattal
… He grew up in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania where he graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1997. Alex enrolled in Duke … and photographing extensively…
BiographySolwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
… Cape Town to look for work. In Cape Town he moved around from job to job until he had enough money to pay lobola. They … circuits for bombs. In May 1963, an…
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… Western Province (now Western Cape), on his father’s farm. From humble beginnings, Professor Esterhuyse rose to become a … Philosophy Department as a…
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
… of Broadcasting where he planned and directed broadcasts from 1969 to 1970. During this time, he also researched and … was appointed as the ANC Director of…
BiographySydney Brenner
… father was a shoe repairman who had moved to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910, while his mother had emigrated from Latvia in 1922. Although his father was…
BiographyBasil Coetzee
… culture of the area. His family were forcibly removed from District Six to Manenberg in 1969. Consequently, Coetzee … which mixed imported hard bop style of…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… the alias of a gardener named "David Motsamayi" to hide from the police.During his speech from the dock on 20 April 1964 in the Rivonia Trial Mandela ……
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
… in the Transvaal Provincial Council in 1914. He broke away from the Labour Party, differing with its choice to … so grave that he was eventually expelled in…
Potlako Leballo
… order was prepared, to be served upon his release from prison on 3 May 1962. This again banished him to the Ubombo district. Leballo escaped from…
BiographyLeon Levy
… Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania . Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were … Levy was secretary of the South…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
… prison, he played an important role in unifying comrades from different political organizations and became active in … in prison. After the arrival of…
BiographyRica Hodgson
… confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early 1940s, until her retirement in 1996 as … Government and were deported to London in…
BiographyMogamat Taufie Bardien
… in 1923, Bardien had little formal schooling. He ran away from home at 16 to join the Cape Coloured Corps and was … Times, July 7. [Accessed 26 February 2009…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned again for a further five years. Her first ban…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… There was immediate reaction to the Sharpeville Massacre from across the world as people saw how violent the South … that banning the ANC and PAC would stop…
BiographyMagdelene Malotane Adams
… her primary school education. She married Simon Adams from Rustenburg and the family had three children. …
Abraham Pule
… Abraham Pule was released from Robben Island prison on the 21st of March 1991. His …
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… the heroism of our people and the support we have received from Africa and the world, the reactionary attempts of the … failed. The youth of our country has…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… the heroism of our people and the support we have received from Africa and the world, the reactionary attempts of the … failed. The youth of our country has…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… has shattered the infamous conspiracy of Reza Pahlevi and Vorster-Botha against our two peoples which guaranteed the …
86. Non-racial sport
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … continued to organise cricket on a non-racial basis up to 1976. The cancellation of the 1968 tour of…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… African Nobel Peace Laureates; Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, FW De Klerk and Albert Luthuli. He feels that these … oppressed. Alexander has integrated…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… to redeem their human dignity and fundamental liberties from the shackles of bondage. They are revolting against … barrels of guns and homemade bombs let us…