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… on death row. He also spoke about the pain of being away from his family and the excruciating anxiety that came with … relief at the unbanning of the ANC which saved him from the noose. … to struggle veteran who escaped the noose by a whisker , from TimesLive, 3 May 2019. Available at …

… has photographed the joy and pain of South Africa emerging from apartheid. First, the early democracy with its most … A number of Bosch’s images of Nelson Mandela (selected from a collection of hundreds of photographs taken over a …

… Joseph Hugo Saliwawas dismissed from the Native Affairs Department (NAD)in Lady Frere Eastern … against duly constituted authority.’ Saliwa was banished from his residence at Ngcuka Location, Glen Grey District, …

… Science while on Robben Island, where he was imprisoned from 1963 to 1970, as a political prisoner. He subsequently … after liberation and served as a member of parliament from 1997 till 2000.  During his time in exile, he addressed …

… vast censorship apparatus, preventing the country's media from publishing the information that a prominent prisoner has … events. When this failed to stop enterprising journalists from seeking - and finding loopholes - in the sloppily … economy- contributed to the political explosion of 16 June 1976. The belated introduction of television to South Africa …

… for determined struggle until freedom is won - freedom from all the cruel consequences of British colonial and … of the British Government to feed economic strength to the Vorster regime, thereby enabling the latter to meet the … of Africa. This mutual interdependence equally derives from our historic responsibilities to complete, in …

… Mhlongo was banned from attending meetings under the Suppression of Communism …

… This chapter comes from the book …

… miserable, his fame as an Afrikaans writer shielded him from anything further, such as imprisonment. Nonetheless, his … Prof Small, being the only Black member of staff, resigned from his position at the university in solidarity with the … 1993, he accepted the Order for Meritorious Service (Gold) from former President and last National Party (NP) leader, …

… a missionary. Since his family was poor, David worked from the age of 10 to 26 at a cotton mill company and did his … completed his medical studies in 1840 in London, England. From an early age, David was intrigued by geology, science … the first to make a transcontinental journey across Africa from Luanda on the Atlantic, reaching Quelimane (Mozambique) …

… under the Suppression of Communism Act and prohibited from attending gatherings. …

… Nationalist government’s plan to remove Coloured voters from the common roll. Together with writer Alan Paton , Rubin … entire Nationalist party caucus walked out. Rubin resigned from the Senate in 1960, when the native representatives’ … – later renamed the African Resistance Movement (ARM) – from the Ghanaian government. Subsequently, the NCL received …

… The biography below is from a tribute to Badela written by Prof Guy Berger, the head … elements opposed to the ANC. They warned him to resign from City Press, his employer at the time, and left him … with a gaping wound in his head. When I returned from exile and ended up as editor of the alternative Cape …

… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 … in the face of massive police action, a general strike from 21 March to 10 April - which remained solid for over two … youth in the main - launched into heroic struggles in 1976. The practical lesson of these bat­tles also was that …

… grass stuffed down his throat. He was dying, was he dying from suffocation or from hunger? The other Social Workers were listening to this … of the NICRO Night Shelter in Harrington St in January 1976. Two of these NICRO Social Workers used to attend a …

… inherited the role of Chief of the Maphumulo tribe from his father. The territory which his chieftaincy … Violence continued to rise, and by 1989, 10,000 refugees from the other regions could be found in Maphumulo’s … the independence of the various chieftaincies and kingdoms from the State of South Africa and who supported the ideas of …

… (FEDSAW) , an organisation which sought to unite women from all walks of life regardless of race or political … still a baby. Her husband (along with other ANC activists from Cradock like Eric Vara, Lennon Melane, and Reverend … and the ANC was banned, her husband managed to escape from South Africa with other ANC militants. During this time, …

… at Maripi High School in Acornhoek and matriculated from Orhovelani High School in Thulamahashe. In 1981, he … of the first four members of the ANC to enter South Africa from exile in 1990 to start the process of negotiation with … Directors of the Motor Industry Ombudsman of South Africa from 1 October 2008 Professor Extraordinary School of …

… was imprisoned at Robben Island - prison number 46/85 - from 1985 to 1990. …   •  Email from Mikki Sivuyile Mac Millan Xayiya to SAHO dated 25 May …

… His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in … complete his matriculation, which he did but was prevented from fulfilling his aim to study law due to financial … unionist HA Naidoo. Mrs Pather had purchased the property from the Dutch Reformed Church on 17 December 1942. By 13 …

… at the University of Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) from 1968 to 1972. She then went on to study History and … KwaZulu-Natal where he taught at Ikhethelo High School. From 1975 she became a member of the IFP. In 1991, she was …

… Union of South Africa that the Indian complaint be removed from the agenda on the grounds that the matter was … Assembly of the United Nations. A multi-racial delegation from South Africa, led by Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of … or exiled for their struggle against apartheid." 1976 1 January, The Centre against Apartheid was established …

… Marelane “Bangilizwe” Joyi, from Thembuland, Umtata District, [Eastern Province, now … Professor S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under …

… Dube, iNkosi Albert Luthuli as well as the Youth of 1976 and other struggle icons who fought for democracy the we … daily. This was implemented in 1994. We do not suffer from hunger as it used to be before 1994. We have highly … and educational growth. As learners, we are benefiting from Shova Kalula bicycle project and buses have been …

… and Nkoli’s childhood memories include moments of hiding from the police with his family to avoid prosecution. His … work on the farm. When he turned 13, Nkoli faced pressure from his grandparents and their white landlord to quit school … through a pen pal magazine. Shepard was a white bus driver from Johannesburg. The two soon began a romantic …

… who was  deeply committed to Afrikaner nationalism arsing from the family's experiences in the South African War, … members of the Afrikaner Broederbond . Her mother came from a Methodist missionary tradition. After completing her … the ANC and other proscribed organisations. Kemp returned from exile in 1990 and worked as a community physiotherapist …

… During her time at UNIFEM, the UN’s women’s organisation, from 1999 to 2005, Urdang was the senior advisor on gender … and were, as a result, living with AIDS. Her journey from a young wife-to-be in the leafy suburbs of Cape Town to … Africa (2017). In 2018, she was awarded a bronze medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for her …

… serious disagreements about the deviation in practice from the proclaimed policies of the ANC (in particular the … corporal punishment) Terry and Barbara Bell resigned from Somafco in 1982.  The ANC then sent the family to London … being:  Vote ANC, but build a socialist alternative. From 1992, Bell has edited, via the internet, the …

… appointed to oversee the division that collected levies from African people to fund the Gcalekaland campaign. At the … During negotiations the Chief agreed to open up the road from Port St Johns to Kokstad and to allow construction, … Stanford was part of the Native Affairs Commission  (NAC) from 1903 to 1905, and disagreed on two standpoints, firstly …

… 1982 in Gaborone,  Botswana .  Ashley and his wife moved from South Africa to the UK in the late 1980s.  Ashley then … full time and the swimming school grew about 10-fold from about 60 pupils. At its peak he would work every weekday … would wear trousers and a shirt to school which he bought from sales, but he didn’t own a suit and his tie was his old …