SAHO global search

1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… he was unable to obtain a permit to study law in the Cape or Transvaal. In 1959 he became a part-time student at the … network to recruit, train, arm and…

B-0065611

1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… was a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg … As a result he could not pursue his…

B-0008136

1956

Patric Tariq Mellet

… people in this area would have been seen as Quadroons, or in street language as “having a touch of the tar”. The … still cross the diverse bloodlines…

B-0008542

1917-1979

Benjamin Magson Kies

… the Statute of Westminster to the Constitution of the NRC or the CAC; from the creation of a white working-class … of oppressed organisations, “cannot…

B-0067724

1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… their Black skin”. Instead what is needed is equality, or what he calls, a policy of ‘fusion’, in which “all South Africans, irrespective of color or creed…

B-0084446

1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… Calvin's virtues, talk about Mother Teresa of Avila or his beloved Paarl" (from Barron, C. 2009). He died ten …

B-0007996

1881-1963

Frank Wiles

… Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles . Prior to his arrival in SA in 1902, he …

B-0009226

1946-2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala

… as a consequence of being Black . . . to accept his tribal or African background is to accept that there is nothing … social outlook, world view, way of life…

B-0085150

1947-1985

Matthew Goniwe

… Christmas”. The community of Lingelihle did not buy liquor or food from white-owned shops, infuriating the white … This was known in some circles as the “G…

B-0064852

1916-2006

Pieter Willem Botha

… here that his political career began. Initially he helped organize the National Party (NP) during by-election campaigns … used against political opponents…

B-0007879

1924-1968

Canodoise (Can) Themba

… conversation”. This engagement with the Sophiatown, or “Kofifi”, community is probably what led to Themba being …

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… their boycotts divided the Indian community into two more or less equal halves, one sector opposed to government …

B-0009215

1940-2023

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia

… career took a different trajectory. He left politics, more or less altogether, and he went back to medicine where he … National Health Policy, she created…

B-0007958

1925-1976

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

… and, complaining of dizziness, fell with his chest or neck on to the back of the chair. The chair toppled and … if not all, of the injuries on him were…

B-0074125

1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… grew up in very dire circumstances with no running water or electricity at home. His grandparents, indentured workers, … as they were not on the permanent…

B-0125809

1951

Patricia De Lille

… in prison, xenophobia and poverty. De lille serves on, or has served on, the boards of the following organisations: … revive her old political party, the…

B-0007988

1925-1983

Cassim Mohammed Bassa

… He was either not allowed to attend welfare meetings or was given observer status with not only no vote but no … continued to make representations in person,…

B-0007834

1876-1932

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

… in 1901. This existed, under Plaatje's editorship, for six or seven years, after which he moved from Mafeking to … that drastically curtailed the right of…

B-0008897

1966

Pule Pheto

… Buthelezi with his paintings, and the oratory work or Percy Mabandu. Pheto has an appreciation and great …

B-0122712

Percival Mdala

… would go down to the river and carry them across, one or two at a time - and at the end of the day, he’d carry them …

B-0125761

1939

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe

… until around 1976, when he felt called to become a sangoma or traditional healer. Since that time he worked as a …

B-0099633

1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… disagreements. Kottler was also a long-time member or the advisory committee of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. …

B-0008275

1893-1947

Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan

… Thus the moderates were unable to use his person or the office as a means of support in their struggle against …

B-0008252

Anna Tempo

… a while in the house were able to go into domestic work or some other kind of work that was found for them. In 1937 …

B-0009128

1923

Lutchmee Marie

… National Congress (ANC) . Whenever there was a big meeting or a conference, the local activists called on her to cook …

B-0064868

1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the NAPAC Opera House in … out of the "white" city to the South…

B-0008287

1795-1840

King Dingane ka Senzangakhona

… daughters however were not recorded. Very little is known or recorded about Dingane’s childhood or early career. Instead, Dingane enters the record when on ……

B-0008006

1872-1940

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman

… a firm prepared to take on a youngster as an apprentice or paying the school fees of an indigent but deserving … up in the oft-repeated sentiment that ‘it is…

B-0007765

1879-1931

Stephen William Black

… ran from October to June, started either in Cape Town or Johannesburg, and toured all stops in between and up to … comedy and farce rather than to the modern…

B-0007859

1891-1922

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

… basis, Long did not appear to play a leading role at work or in his social circle. At the outbreak of the  1922 Rand … Bloemfontein. During the first trial…

B-0067743