SAHO global search

1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… was sometimes described as too blunt and too emotional about issues. He was also regarded as a harsh warlord because he was unremittent about when it came to…

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1949

Sadecque Variava

… of the student body. Variava and his peers had heard about students aligned to Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) … in July 1972, where Biko and his peers…

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Aubrey Mokoena

… no longer provided with meals at school and how slogans about Bantu Education were painted on walls. One-day members … that a boycott should be started…

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1979-2019

Leigh Davids

… homelessness and the discrimination she faced. She spoke about how coming from a Muslim family, with her father being … would always speak plainly and…

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1918-2011

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

… it generated sent a strong message to the government about the organizational strength of African leaders, the … a historic moment for South Africa and women…

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1938-1982

Joseph Zenzele Mavi

… of South Africa. Mavi shared the resentment of blacks about white control over the expression of workers … Municipality Worker's Union. Defying conventional…

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1810-1872

Charles Du Val

… vol.,1882), which remains a valuable source of information about South Africa, the war and the siege of Pretoria. Du Val …

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1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… defects and just as easily discuss Calvin's virtues, talk about Mother Teresa of Avila or his beloved Paarl" (from …

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Dan Tloome

… Orlando branch of the ANC in Johannesburg in 1945 and at about the same time became the first full-time …

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress executive for about five years,working some of that time as its full-time …

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine …

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1955

Caesarina Kona Makhoere

… discriminatory laws and detention. Makhoere wrote a book about her experiences in prison, entitled No Child’s Play: In …

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1952-2019

Oliver Mtukudzi

… the HIV/Aids stigma in Tanzania . Mtukudzi was outspoken about the disease.  He also criticised polygamy as a practice … One of Mtukudzi’s hit songs,…

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1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… wiped out the ANC. As a journalist and being free to move about without attracting too much suspicion, Joyce was sought … was engaged to an African doctor…

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1787-1828

Shaka Zulu

… was Nandi, the daughter of a Langeni chief. Information about Shaka's early years is gleaned entirely from oral … he was developing a thirst for power…

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1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… which was published in Bloemfontein for about two years. Fenyang hosted Plaatje when the latte was …

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Chauke Family

… Msengi in the Limpopo Province, but very little is known about this family of carvers. They have neither been prolific …

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… in Kliptown. Later he lived in Lenasia for a period of about two years.  Wadee moved to Nelspruit in the late 1970s, …

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June Rose Nala

… a weaver...I am told that my minimum pay was going to be about R6 to 8...The next thing is you are...on the loom with …

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1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… an interest in sociology. This led to learning more about the injustice in his own country.[4] He later wrote … the ANC in London, with the intention of…

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Nise Bulelwa Malange

… So people were starving. We saw many graves. About 300 kids were dying there. Being just buried like … with migrancy, personal ones and those we had heard…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… sons from a previous marriage. Kantor did not much care about was politics, although he did not like the thuggish … of the group were immediately arrested…

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1925-1976

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

… the police explanation, Mdluli was arrested on 18 March at about 10 p.m. and attempted to escape from the Durban … interrogation continued with occasional…

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… the farm. After the war, he went back to school - it was about seven miles from home.  He had to cross the Umbilo River about three times, to get to school…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… offered their lives in exchange for giving information about sabotage activity in their area. Mini wrote: ”I am … and they would help me. I refused. They…

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1927-2020

Advocate George Bizos

… a refugee camp in Alexandria, Egypt where they stayed for about two months in mid-1941. His father was housed in a camp … at a Greek orphanage in Alexandria,…

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Tim Bruwer

… out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with … in the 1960s and early 1970s, came to…

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1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… to see Sara’s half naked body displayed in a cage that was about a metre and half high. She became an attraction for … in 1981 when Stephen Jay Gould, a…

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1944

Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)

… take part in social gatherings. She started reading books about feminism and slowly became conscientised to the sexism … the feminist organisation, Rape…

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1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

… actively involved politics to fight the injustice brought about by these laws. She first rose to the position of … North West Province], a distant and…

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