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BiographyMax Yergan
… thinking. In 1936 he was asked to aid in drafting the constitution of the All African Convention. He had a … Former Communist sympathiser, assisted in…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… that had to investigate the revision of the ANC's constitution. In 1943 he was made lifelong honorary … Church in South Africa and helped to draw up the…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
… was one of two thousand political detainees after the 1960 PAC-led Sharpville Massacre and the consequent State of …
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… those rights enshrined and guaranteed by the democratic constitution. During his legal career, the soft spoken Bizos … fought to ensure that those rights,…
BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
… for the defence of eighteen Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members in Bethel, Mxenge received a letter threatening …
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… from 1976 to 1978 and the Select Committee on the Constitution in 1983. On 12 October 1978 Coetsee became … president of the Senate, which remained under the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at a Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 8 May 2006
… the adoption by the then Constitutional Assembly of our Constitution in this very House, exactly 10 years ago. I am … occasion. As we celebrate the tenth…
BiographyMogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
Justice Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang. Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in Goo-Mokgatha (Koffiekraal) village, north east of Zeerust, North West Province. He was…
BiographyLex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…
BiographyJacob Koti Dikobo
… between AZAPO, BCMA and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) in Kadoma, Zimbabwe. Dikobo also became an active trade …
BiographyVuyani Goniwe
Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile…
BiographyHargreaves Nkosana Mbodla
Between 1959 and 1962, eight people were banished from various districts of Mpondoland, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape]. They included some of those who…
BiographyDaniel Simon Letanka
… years, a member of the committee that drafted the 1919 constitution, and a secretary of the House of Chiefs. …
BiographyThulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
… was also one of the drafters of South Africa’s current constitution in 1994. …
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… Representative Council. He helped draft the ANC's 1919 constitution and also the 1943 Africans' Claims.In the 1930s …
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC – now known as the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania) …
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… tasked with drafting the South African Nationalist Party’s constitution. After the Congress he became chairman of a … in the Umvoti Country Division on…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… group which dealt with constitutional principles and constitution-making, on behalf of the IFP. From August 1994 …
BiographyLaurent Kabila
… as president. During his presidency Kabila suspended the constitution and changed the country’s name to the Democratic …
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
… uprising, and spent months at The Old Fort prison, now Constitution Hill and eventually banned and restricted to …
BiographyDeputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
… served on the technical committee that drafted the interim constitution of 1993. In 1994, he was appointed Deputy …
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) meetings at school, a privilege restricted to students …
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… a demonstration organised by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) against pass laws. Brooks was part of a generation of …
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
… 1960, 10 days after Sharpeville , the banning of the ANC, PAC and other organisations, and the declaration of state of …
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville Massacre had an impact on Moodley. …
BiographyIqbal Shaik Mohammed
Mohammed Iqbal Shaik was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg on 26 August 1958. He became politically active when he was a student leader at the M.L. Sultan…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… Mangaliso Sobukwe , president of the Pan-African Congress (PAC) , called the Africans out in a nationwide protest … National Congress (ANC) and the Pan…
BiographyBilly Lesedi Masetlha
Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… 1971 resulted in the formal adoption of a Manifesto and Constitution both of which, writes Gwala, expressed in some … leaders of BPC realized the potential…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
… Prison, including UDF, TIC and even detainees of the PAC and Qibla, who were supplied with home cooked meals …