SAHO global search

1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… and exile for their political activities and during this time the young Weinberg was looked after by another activist, … Joseph . In 1964, Weinberg was…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with dual British-South African … in South Africa for 30 years…

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1903-1966

Edward “Eddie” Roux

… returned to South Africa and by 1930 was engaged on full-time political work as editor of  Umsebenzi,  the Communist … he became the professor of botany in…

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1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… Nils Andersen and Walter Gilbert Wiles and studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato … was on Xhosa people in theTranskei…

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1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… South African army and was captured at Tobruk and spent time as a prisoner of war. After the end of the war he went … arrested and charged with Terrorism in…

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1899-1995

Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana

… worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time political organiser and journalist. In 1926 he joined … , was the only African woman of note…

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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… (SACTU) . Gaetsewe never sought easy compromises. At a time when white workers in South Africa,organisedas they were … the black trade unions to death.” In…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… and it had a lasting impression on him. He studied part time at the Rotterdamse Kunsakademie. He was a changed man … Pierneef showed his works on an…

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

… mother also fell ill, she was forced to work full time at the factory. It was around this time that she became actively involved in labour politics and ……

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1932-2009

Aidan Walsh

… as curator at the NSA before beginning to work as a full-time painter in 1987. His stay in 1986 at the Cité in Paris … played an important role in his…

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1958-2004

Khotso Seatlholo

… would secretly come in and out of the country from time to time during the years that followed his exile. In 1981, …

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1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… more than 30 years at the South African Bar, during which time his clients included Nelson Mandela and the late Chief … of his wife, Felicia, an advocate,…

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1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… to his slight physique since many beverages at the time were sold in a “¼ pint”. During the 1950s, Quarter was … in fundraising for the Congress movement…

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1940

Sindiso Mfenyana

… day Eastern Cape as traditional – in the parlance of the time the villagers around him may have been referred to as … taking place in the cities of South…

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1957

Anna Zieminski

… of Cape Town. In 1983 and 1984 she attended part-time courses in photography at the Ruth Prowse School of Art … media' and the international press. At the…

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1955

Michael Davis

… where he pursued a Masters degree in photography. At this time he worked part-time as a freelance photographer in Cape Town. For his …

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1951

David Lurie

… Lurie began doing documentary projects on a part time basis in 1990, and full time in 1995 following the publication of his book "Life in …

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1969

Kim Ludbrook

… Press, AFP and Reuters and has been published in  Time, Newsweek, Liberation, The Observer, US Sports … in the four corners of the globe. Publications: TIME,…

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… jettisoned for political activism and ‘to become a full-time political organiser at the time of the 1952 Defiance Campaign .’ His banishment order, …

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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… where people from all races came together.”At the time, the CPSA was under the leadership of figureheads such … Port Elizabeth and Welkom Greaterman’s stores…

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1902-1996

Jane Gool

… from India, settled in South Africa after spending some time in Mauritius. He was a successful merchant, who had … second group of matriculants in its…

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1968

DJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)

… their forced removal. He would hear hip hop for the first time on a portable record player, owned by friends of his … and easier to dance on. [5] A haven for…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… and in 1943 he took over the position of honorary part-time district secretary of the Cape Town branch of the AEU … (SATLC). In 1949 Budd resigned as the…

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1966-1986

Andrew Sibusiso Zondo

… causing unrest in 1983. He intended to study during this time but eventually trained as a guerrilla under u Mkhonto we … the apartheid government.  The 1980s…

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1923-2010

Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani

… father who made utility items for his community. He spent time as a migrant worker in Johannesburg but returned home … and the source of his creativity. He…

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1901

John Stephen Gomas

… Gomas moved to Cape Town and within three years was a full-time organizer for theICU,becoming its Western Cape … Front but it too fractured and witherde by…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… murder in 1914, he spent 13 years in prison, during which time he experienced a Christian conversion, became a preacher … with Mpanza as their unofficial …

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1928-2013

Phyllis Naidoo

… clothes for the children of these sick people. During that time Phyllis working with a Women’s Association was also … Africa that gave rise to this disease…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… instead became a pianist that occasionally played at small time gigs and cruise chips. Adam returned to England in the … winning the Peter Whittingham Award…

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1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… in the National Party (NP) and her only brother. At the time Cornelius and Du Toit met South African textile workers … in the textile industry, where she…

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