SAHO global search

1450-1500

Bartolomeu Dias

… and Indians ”” all made journeys down the west and east African coasts, and one expedition went right around the … padroes which the explorers raised on…

B-0008003

1967-1988

Mlungiseleli Velaphi

… (UDF) member.  He left South Africa in 1985 to join the African National Congress (ANC) and mKhonto we Sizwe (MK), … day. The VDF called for reinforcements…

B-0149227

1980

Pule Mabe

… [1] . Mabe rose to political prominence when he was in the African National Congress Youth League ( ANCYL ) then led by … of the ANCYL. In 2012, Malema was…

B-0152039

1876-1958

Mabel Palmer

… member of numerous organisations. These included the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) , the National … the advisor on Indian affairs for…

B-0150485

1915-1989

Leo Linda Sihlali

… the programs and activities of the NEUM. Through the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA), he fought to integrate … Apartheid. Thus, Sihlali played a…

B-0148457

1961

Dali Tambo

… TV genre in South Africa. He later moved to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) where he would also … to visit the site in search for knowledge…

B-0122793

1956

Stephen Marais

… act of civil disobedience was in 1983 when he joined the African National Congress (ANC) underground. That evening he … Trade Unions (COSATU) and NGOs for…

B-0125758

1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… courier server and became an activist in Swaziland for the African National Congress (ANC) . Her parents suspected that … and footware in her hands…

B-0093135

1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… 1994 and served the ANC until 1999. Among a group of South African "Whites in a changing South Africa" to visit the … enormous role that this quiet, but…

B-0009188

1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… trauma and torture used on detainees by the South African security forces during interrogation. Together with … the Civil Cooperation Bureau, a covert unit…

B-0009218

1946-2011

John James Issel

… the  Black consciousness  student movement, the  South African Student Organisation (SASO) , and was elected its … within the Western Cape. After the…

B-0064876

1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… he had taken were still being used extensively by the African National Congress (ANC) in their newsletters and … Only” at the Tate Museum in London “Soweto –…

B-0007955

1957-1990

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… among his peers.He joined  a local branch of the South African Students' Movement (SASM) in 1975. Mashinini’s … very confident.”As a teenager of his time, he…

B-0141698

1865-1906

Jotello Festiri Soga

… Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary … who was one of the people who inspired the founding of the…

B-0150992

1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… McLaren. McLaren was making music by fusing together South African music, punk rock and hip hop. [4] This was Ready D’s … ability and Prophets of the City …

B-0125398

1892-1969

Bertha Solomon

… in 1911 with a BA degree in Classics, and then the South African College where she received a MA degree. Thereafter … to Johannesburg and had two children…

B-0150747

1899-1975

Julius Louis Saks

… 1960 to 1963, and from 1969 until his death. The South African Optometric Association conferred Honorary Life … father”²s footsteps, made their mark on South…

B-0144737

1930-2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

… Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) South African Chapter based in Durban. The organisation is one of … living outside India. Seedat contributed…

B-0141676

Elliot Mngadi

… in Natal, Mngadi who was also a landowner mobilized other African landowners to form an organization of their own. … areas such as the Dannhauser…

B-0149214

1960-2020

Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela

… Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie … (1992). In 2013 she remarried, this time to former…

B-0150021

1877-Unknown

Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala

… He worked for some years in Rhodesia and served in an African unit in the Boer War. Thereafter he worked at various … Union  (ICU). In 1919 he became an…

B-0141693

1843-1920

Sammy Marks

… Samuel Marks was born in Lithuania in 1843. He arrived on African shores in 1868 where he began his career by hawking … trading in the boomtown of  Barberton…

B-0149464

1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… and again with surprising imagery that depicts the South African situation. The satirical poem ‘To Whom It May …

B-0068943

1880

Ethel Edwards

… of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African Artists". In it she stands posed at her easel …

B-0008042

1953

Jeannette Ndhlovu

… actively involved in the underground activities of the  African National Congress (ANC) . She was responsible for …

B-0008756

1976

Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane

… T W Khambule an educationist said of detainee deaths,'The African community resents this tremendously.They doubt that … Behind Closed Doors. By Shireen…

B-0074845

1893-1958

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

… , which embraced the ideological principles of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and other liberation …

B-0009106

1942

Jeanie Noel

… became actively involved with underground work for the  African National Congress  (ANC), organizing safe houses for …

B-0008810

Mavuso Walter Msimang

… He was later appointed executive director of the South African Tourism Board.  From 1997, he was CEO of SA National …

B-0068145

1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town. In 1980 he joined African National Congress (ANC) underground, he used their … A member of the African National…

B-0079038