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… objects such as wooden spoons and meat platters. One of his special interests is carving violins and sculptures of …

… South Africans and members of the international anti-Apartheid movements played in South Africa’s struggle for freedom against segregation and Apartheid from 1900-1994.  Launch of the Project, 2000 The … African Socialist by Bob Hepple Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African …

… Town (UCT) and was active in the political movement since his student days. Moosa was an executive member of the …

… was born in 1948 in Rorkes Drift, Natal. Ziqubu received his training at Rorke\'s Drift. In 1969 he was employed as a …

… her gender identity. She took drugs and engaged in sex work to help cope with poverty, homelessness and the … her growing up. Although Davids was always clear that sex work was a matter of survival for her, as a way to make … her activism to push for the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa. Sex workers have been routinely abused, …

… the democratic elections in South Africa, and the end of apartheid rule, is being observed by people of many other … and the Council on African Affairs he headed - and of his associates, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Dr. Alphaeus Hunton … involved in South Africa. The students had done their home work. American investment in South Africa was estimated at $ …

… was 14, and she was forced to drop out of school and go to work. At age 17, she married, and went on to give birth to …

… by young women. In 1978 she returned to South Africa to work underground as an MK operative. She was arrested in …

… Percy Fitzpatrick best known for his book, Jock of the Bushveld and other children's books. …

… to the colonisers in the late 1700’s and were forced to work for European landowners to survive.The colonial … M. Hertzog became Prime Minister of South Africa in 1924. His greatest ambition was the elevation of the Afrikaner The … Malan, Strijdom and Verwoerd all supported and perpetuated apartheid. The unprecedented labour demand sparked by the …

… Sibiya was educated at St Peter's Seminary, Hammanskraal. His early art career consisted of carving decorative motifs …

… 1945 in Newcastle, Natal. When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukhatole tear Germiston in the … school in Gerpiston, Swaziland and Newcastle and attained his Junior Certificate. Nkosi studied sculpture as a private …

… was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in 1885 and married a local Malay woman, … (NEUM). Goolam H. Gool remained a NEUM member until his death in 1962 in Cape Town, Western Cape. …

… died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at … John Vorster.  The police claimed that Timol had jumped to his death. Desai was kept in solitary confinement for several …

… creative madness or genius; but simply people doing their work, whether painting, music or poetry. Medu saw its … artistic task". Later, Dikobe wa Mogale Martins wrote in his paper The Necessity of Art for National Liberation: "Our … think; the power to combat the specific form that cultural apartheid takes within the sphere of artistic production." …

… portraying the world around him on paper with pastels. In his own words, “I like to draw happy people doing ordinary …

… to George Goch (Eastern Native Township) to live with his maternal grandfather Sgt Bhengu. …

… Congress  (PAC) members were accused. After completing his primary school he went to Minerva High School in …

… on the Global South and the New World, with much of the work by the artists from 63 nationalities grappling with the … the collapse of Soviet Russia, the end of legislative Apartheid , and the demise of the British Empire through Hong … Biennale opened in Johannesburg, Pik Botha was submitting his amnesty application at the Truth and Reconciliation …

… an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in … In the wake of this event, a massive stay-away from work was organised and anti-pass demonstrations continued. … Trial (October 1963) after which Mandela and seven of his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben …

… Africa; it focused on an area of experience- travelling to work and back-that is central to most black lives in this … Staffrider’s editorial policy was based on an anti-apartheid ethos. To this end Staffrider was nonracial, … the first to publish authors such as J.M Coetzee, after his manuscript had been rejected by several other publishers, …

… of judgment was drawing near, Buthelezi claimed, in which American blacks would arrive in aeroplanes from which they … paying taxes and to stop dipping their cattle. In fact, his strongholds in Transkei were precisely those areas in … banned from Transkei. Although he continued his work elsewhere in the eastern Cape, his results were never as …

… 1985 Dr. Boesak was arrested along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr Christiaan Beyers Naude, with whom he had formed … a triumvirate of South African clerics opposed to the Apartheid regime. …

… on 'Church and Society' was planned for July. During the Apartheid era the South African government regularly refused … Africans, including the outspoken cleric Bishop Desmond Tutu, were restricted in this manner. …

… 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM).  Tennyson Makiwane , Vella Pillay … The Pan Africanist Congress retaliates by calling for a work stoppage that lasts for two weeks. Ninety five percent … (Botswana).  Chief Albert Luthuli publicly burns his pass. March 28, The African National Congress calls a …

… 1977. Bruce, Dickson. "Ancient Africa and the Early Black American Historians, 1883-1915." American Quarterly XXXVI … Luli. A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid. ]o- hannesburg; Ravan Press, … Couzens, Tim. The New African: A Study of the Life and Work of H. L E. Dhlomo. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985. …

… more. Zarina Maharaj has served her country during the apartheid era through her involvement in the ANC. She … of feminist politics in South Africa. It was Maharaj’s work in fighting for gender inequality and women’s … copy of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography out of prison when his twelve-year sentence came to an end in 1976. In August of …

… sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served his sentence on Robben Island and was released on 7 November …

… the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes that were taking … of Bailey's from Oxford, was appointed editor, and under his leadership the magazine continued to grow and widely … joined the Drum team. The writers used the language of American writers and movies, and created a fast, slangy …

… Dr Limbada clearly posed a threat to the ruling class with his preaching of unity of the oppressed, non collaboration … he was struck by personal grief. First, around 1972, his daughter was killed in a motor vehicle accident and he subsequently lost his wife, Bibi Mall. Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada cut an …