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BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… was appointed in December 1992. In the April 1994 general election, Asmal was 22nd in the ranking for the ANC's …
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… any protection but his high rank and popular respect. His election, in March 1979, as leader of the new Democratic …
BiographyBilly Nair
… Front (UDF) office and participated in the UDF anti-election campaign of 1984. He was detained in August under …
BiographyJames Edward April
… first campaign that he was involved in was the separate election campaign in 1958, to elect White parliamentary …
BiographyPatricia De Lille
… registered with the IEC and would contest the 2019 general election. De Lille was announced as the Good Party's Western …
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
Lesedi Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).He was one of the six children in a family with roots in…
Mary Margaret Ngalo
Mary Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon James A. Calata, who was…
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… and non-violent protest during the week of the general election, including the stay-at-home, April 14-16, 1958. From leaflet issued by the Protest Week…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
Mduduzi Richard Shabalala (Mdu) Shabalala was born in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 24 July 1965. His father was a prominent civic rights…
BiographyTraci Mackie
Traci Mackie was born to a working-class family, in an industrial village called Blackburn in Scotland. When she was nine years old, her parents decided to…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
Jeanette Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
Mahomed Dawood Barmania was the son of Dawood Barmania, owner of commercial and farming properties in both Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Surat in the West…
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
Document 60 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the Communist League of South Africa, 3 March 1936
… anxieties and urgent duties has prevented an earlier reply. We regret further that the demands of our normal … from the realities with which we are faced…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… Workers Union . Although he voted for the ANC in the 1994 election , he insisted that the massive vote for the party …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… on the political committee of the ANC's Western Cape 1994 election campaign. Unlike many other activists, he did not …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… Council and in 1981 was one of the poll-toppers in the SRC election. She served as SRC Media Officer, and through this …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… was arrested for printing and distributing an anti-war leaflet published by the NEUF. The leaflet pointed out that … demands and pressures of the radicals…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… whatever limited democratic rights they possessed in the election of members to Parliament.” The most ominous Act, … with their Prime Ministers. On 14 July,…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… worked full-time as part of a team that co-ordinated the election campaign for the region, particularly organising …
BiographyRenfrew Leslie Christie
At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the South African Army. He was on guard at Lenz ammunition dump (east of Johannesburg), when he saw…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… affair,” adding, “We will not forget it either.” Kruger’s reply that Biko’s death “left him cold,” echoed around the … of Biko’s death. Prime Minister…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Deputy President After South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994, Mandela chose Mbeki to be the first … in Polokwane in December 2007, Mbeki …
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the Dutch Reformed…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews …