SAHO global search

1947-2008

Mike Terry

… it was recognised that the AAM was needed as a permanent organisation to work towards the eradication of the apartheid …

B-0068549

Unknown-1987

Cameron Mbulelo Madikizela

… continued to promote the work of the Unity Movement, an organisation of which he was a member for his entire life.  …

B-0064854

Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… the Frelimo Trial) of nine BPC and South African Student Organisation (SASO) members. Dr Mokoape was SASO's Assistant …

B-0080847

1949-2009

Henry Eric Isaacs

… was elected vice-president of the South Africa Students' Organisation (SASO) at it national conference.In September …

B-0080351

1955

Gana Makabeni

… found the Council of Non-European Trade Unions, but the organisation was soon beset by internal conflicts, and in …

B-0008391

1889

Bertha Mkhize

… Women (FEDSAW)  in early 1954 and was chosen one of the organisation's four national vice-presidents. She was …

B-0067956

Benjamin Ulenga

… (SWAPO), which became the preeminent liberation organisation fighting for Namibia’s independence. In 1974, … not a Communist, Socialist or a otherwise worker…

B-0099834

1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… African Students Organization (SASO), a black student organisation headed by his close friend Steve Biko , while NUSAS remained a predominantly white student…

B-0094976

1933-2019

Jennifer Davis

Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…

B-0149698

Stephanie Urdang

… based in New York at the offices of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), which was an activist organisation that…

B-0150555

1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… of the PAC's external mission, attending meetings of the Organisation of African Unity and speaking before the Special …

B-0068237

1930-2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

… Democratic Lawyers Association (DLA), the first black law organisation in the country. He has been a past chairman of the Global Organisation of People of…

B-0141676

William Mothipa (Willie) Madisha

… In 2008, COSATU removed Madisha as President of the organisation. He was found guilty of unprofessional conduct … the ANC presidency. The SACP also expelled…

B-0149416

1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… post of Secretary General. In 1958, Kaunda broke from the organisation and formed the Zambian Africa National Congress … after Zambia’s independence, serving…

B-0008233

1929-2007

Adelaide Frances Tambo

… leave the country in 1960 and to carry on the work of the organisation outside South Africa once they were settled. … Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the…

B-0009120

1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… Party in 1934 and 1935, and recruited many women into the organisation. She helped organise workers in many different … March to the Union Buildings, but she…

B-0007783

1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… Letele was elected to the ANC Executive Committee at the organisation's annual conference. He supported the concept of … from jail he was not allowed to…

B-0008321

1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… of the Transvaal affiliate of the African People's Organisation (APO), the organisation founded by Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman in the Cape … of the Transvaal…

B-0068220

1872-1940

Abdullah Abdurahman

… brothers. It was, as president of the African Political Organisation (APO) that Abdurahman made his most important … The APO, the first substantive Coloured…

B-0141530

1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced).  Nkosi…

B-0149402

1914-2016

Selloane Ethel Leisa

… joined the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) , an organisation which aimed to unite women from all walks of … she worked closely with Ngoyi (who was…

B-0150389

Unknown-2019

Julia Nicol

Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…

B-0149212

1936

Mama Beshenga

… she also helped to raise funds for the Wilson Round Tree Organisation. …

B-0007845

1921

Richard Ernest van der Ross

… he favored contact with African groups while calling for organisation among Coloureds in order that they might be able …

B-0068650

1954

Vincent Oliphant

… a poetry competition held by Concept, a Belgian cultural organisation. In 1996 he was invited to take part in the …

B-0008852

1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… the final defendants who joined the PAC.  He joined the organisation after fleeing to Lesotho in late 1961 to avoid …

B-0067993

1957-1998

Simon Nkoli

… South Africa (GASA) and most notably, the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW). His work within … following his acquittal, Nkoli founded…

B-0150068

John Jacques William Aitchison

… work that focused on the Valley Trust, a rural development organisation in Natal.   In April 1981, he joined the … his strong commitment to education and non…

B-0148459

1946

Ashlatha Rambally

… She soon got involved with the South African Student Organisation (SASO) through her theatre group based at the … Moodley started reading a lot about the…

B-0150418