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… rights and social development. He has worked in over 26 African countries, plus many others further afield, producing … of European newspapers and magazines, as well as for South African and international NGOs. Miller's photographs featured …

… about. From 1941-1944, he was assistant secretary for the African Commercial and Distributive Workers Union, which had … 1944, he was one of the delegates sent to represent the African Explosives Workers Union in a request for better … was a member of the Publishing and Newspapers Distributors African Workers Union. As secretary for the union, he was …

… leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the  All African Convention  AAC) and the short-lived African Democratic Party. He died in 1964. …

… happy home with all the racial prejudices of White South African of the time. At around the age of eighteen, the young … in the British High Commission before joining the South African Women’s Army in 1941. In 1942, Benson was stationed … lobbying the United Nations (UN) on behalf of South West African (now Namibia) peoples, mainly the Nama and the …

… Es Salaam, internal work, Co-ordination of ANC and South African Council of Trade Unions work, various ANC regions, and missions. …

… other musicians forged a new and unique identity of South African jazz in the 1960s and 1970s. Coetzee played jazz … the vibrant Marabi and Kwela dance rhythms of the South African townships. It was this blend that gave South African jazz much of its distinctive sound and lilting …

… and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years after  World War … Council of Non-European Trade Unions, and when the  South African Congress of Trade Unions  was formed, he became a … eventually becoming its general secretary. Joining the  African National Congress  during the  1952 Defiance Campaign …

… in business until 1965 when the Durban City Council forced African businesses to move out of the area. Bertha was a … for women in 1931 and 1936. She was also active in the  African National Congress Women's League  and participated in … the founding conference of the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)  in early 1954 and was chosen one of …

… and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years after World War … Council of Non-European Trade Unions, and when the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) was formed, he … eventually becoming its general secretary. Joining the African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance …

… Florence was the Cape provincial organiser of the  African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL)  and vice-president of the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) . She was among the original 156 … a five-year sentence for furthering the aims of the banned African National Congress (ANC) . While she was in prison, …

… was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini , South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) activist and first African National Congress (ANC) member to be executed by the … weSizwe (MK) operative and survived a March 1979 South African Defence Force attack on the Novo Catengue camp in …

… Louis Trichardt and due to there being no high school for African children in the area; he went to live with his aunt … At the weekends they attended meetings addressed by African National Congress (ANC), ANC Youth League (ANCYL) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) leaders. Curtis graduated from …

… Mbeki , was a leading figure in the activities of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape. Thabo … as the ‘Eton of Africa’, the school was the first South African high school to admit Blacks for over a century. … It was not long before Mbeki was elected secretary of the African Students' Association (ASA) while still being …

… C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the  Non-European … the mid-1950s he served as national secretary of the  All African Convention  (AAC). …

… that was formed to protest against the exclusion of African students from outside South Africa attending … Muthal Naidoo and Prem Singh. They produced the South African version of the Greek classical play Antigone . That … attention of the Special Branch as it reflected the South African political situation. Following his relocation to Cape …

… Province (now Western Cape ), the only official area for African accommodation in Cape Town in the 1930s. She grew up … both Sotho and Afrikaans, although they were classified as African because of their father. Mildred attended the City … of Bantu Education . Local meetings were organised by the African National Congress (ANC). The Eureka African Primary …

… for Photography in Munich. She is one of the first South African women to study photography abroad.  On her return to … first woman correspondent when the Director of the South African Military Intelligence, Col. E. G. Malherbe, appointed … with the American 7th Army in France and the South African 6th Armoured Division in the Italian Apennines. In …

… experienced journalist who counted many highly respected African intellectuals and writers among his friends and … to go abroad, and he duly enlisted in the South African Army. This took him to Egypt, where South African forces were heavily involved in combat. He somehow …

… tide of the growing threat of overt racism engulfing South African society, held his first solo exhibition in East … last few years of his life, this great pioneering South African artist, who in 1944 wrote that “I do not know if ever … as a black artist despite the odds, mark him as a South African who shall be remembered and admired for all time. …

… in 1972-1973 at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was instructed in … by Ronnie Kasrils . He was the spokesperson for the South African Communist Party (SACP). He worked in the United … Acts. The charges included conspiring with members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and the South African …

… and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and … was an organizing secretary of the Orlando branch of the  African National Congress  (ANC) during the mid-1940s. …

… western education by the missionaries and the traditional African society’s way of life. He spent his early schooling … in 1901. The institute functioned as a school where African children obtained education. Perhaps, more … a leading role in Black resistance to the Union of South African states, from whose legislature Blacks were to be …

… Roger Telemachus failed a fitness test. He made his South African one-day debut at Perth in early 1998, bowling well in … in the same year and he was part of the winning South African team in the Commonwealth Games. In December 1998 … previously. Ntini went on to became the first South African to take ten wickets at Lord's in 2003 before …

… (YCS). She was a founder member of the Congress of South African Students  (COSAS), an organiser in the Federation of … Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa  (CCAWUSA, now South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union - … to serve in different leadership capacities in the African National Congress (ANC) and its Alliance structures - …

… he played a prominent role in the founding of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912, and its official … a natural choice to preside at ANC conferences. The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) was lauched in … the 1920s, he was for 13 years the treasurer of the South African Location Advisory Boards Congress. In the 1920s and …

… the influence of the deputy headmaster who was an ardent African Nationalist .A member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in East London … the clan­destine bulletin of the Africanist Bureau of African Nationalism. He was elected to the national executive …

… for the next 20 years. A founding member of the  South African Native National Congress  (renamed the ANC in 1925), … in the "bucket strike" of 1918, Letanka was among five African leaders arrested and charged with incitement. The government case collapsed, however, when an African police witness confessed that he had given false …

… in the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union and the  African National Congress . He left the CPSA in 1929 but … an instrument for promoting political consciousness among African and Coloured workers, particularly in die rural areas …  unsuccessful bid for re-election as president of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with  Bransby Ndobe …

… Peter's and subsequently became secretary of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association. In 1943 he was on the … the 1960 emergency, he was involved in organizing the African leadership conference of December 1960 but later … in South Africa," in J. Paden and E. Soja (eds.). The African Experience (1970), and "Profile of Change: The …