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BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
… he played an important and often prominent role in South African politics. His positions included Deputy Minister of …
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
… exhibited by the Tate Gallery in London (1948), the South African National Gallery in Cape Town (1976), and King George …
BiographyRicardo Rangel
… a Greek businessman from a multifaceted background, with African, European and Chinese heritage. Rangel began his …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. …
BiographyFrederik Bester Laubscher
… one who most pertinently adapted abstract art to the South African scene”. Erik Laubscher, died in his sleep at …
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
… actively with the Pretoria branch of the South African Student’s Association (SASO). In 1976, Dr Mangena was …
BiographyMolly Blackburn
… ideas, and became aware of the problems facing South African black communities such as poverty, violence and … E.J. Verwey (ed), 1995. New dictionary of…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… later became a trade union activist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). While visiting Cato Manor … meetings too. In 1959, he joined the ANC…
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
… his license of sciences from the University of Paris in 1955. In 1960 he qualified for his doctorate in medicine at …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK … challenge to the white minority…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the … to launch the successful women's anti-pass protests in 1955 and 1956. The campaign for…
BiographyShepherd Mdladlana
… in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the …
BiographyPumzile Majeke
… Local chair of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) branch at Fort Hare …
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and leader of the South African Communist Party. Slovo wanted to know why he wanted … who have consistently lived the humanitarian…
BiographySimon Gqubule
… political consciousness, later recruiting him to join the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) . He … of Southern Africa (MCSA), and vice…
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
… Craighead returned to South Africa and joined the South African Air Force and served until 1946 as a lieutenant, … 1949 when, having qualified as an actuary,…
BiographyPasqual Macamba
… Macamba, also known as (Khauleza Ndawe), a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) …
BiographyStanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
… 1993. The Sangweni’s home was at the centre of the South African exile communities in Zambia and Kenya in the 1970s … Campus. During this same period, he was…
BiographyMark Shinners
… activities. They formed the Pretoria branch of the African Students Union of South Africa (ASUSA). The aim of ASUSA was to bring African students together…
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
… and Pauline Podbrey . However, she never joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) herself. In 1950 Dick was … in the service of the National Council…
BiographyRobert Tunsi
… was born in 1914. He was a businessman and he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1937. He was chairman of …
BiographyMaqadaza Magushe
… A member of the Pan African Congress and Poqo . he was executed at Pretoria …
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… the regions of the A.N.C. covering various strata of the African people, but also because of the militancy which … Our demands were clearly formulated by the…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… display, while oral testimonies and songs sung during the 1955 gathering in Kliptown, play in the background. Housed in …
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… was a political activist who joined the Black Sash in 1955. She later left black Sash when she felt that the group … Verwey, E.J., (ed)(1995). New…
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
… Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance … Member of the African National Congress and during the…
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
… later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape in the …
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
… as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the Defiance …
BiographyGary Jim Player
… South African Professional golfer. …
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… Serote’s high school years came to a close, he joined the African National Congress (ANC). He soon became involved with … of people.” Nicholas Meihuizen…