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Maria Wilman
Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931, once women were allowed…
BiographyWelcome Mandla Koboka
Welcome Mandla Koboka was born in Johannesburg in 1941. At age twenty he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly Street Art Centre. He…
BiographySam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa …
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
Charles Makhohliso was born in 1918. As a trade unionist he was responsible for organising better conditions for brick workers. The Chairperson of the…
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
We must organise ourselves into a conquering force Fellow South Africans, Today, January 8th, we mark the 71st anniversary of our organisation, the African…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… its editorial board until January 1991 (issues 1 to 6). By 1989 the ALSC publications were having serious financial …
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
Nokutela Dube was the first wife of Reverend John Langalibalele Dube, the first President General of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC- later…
BiographyNgoza Mvelase
According to documentation related to Ngoza Mvelase’s banishment, community conflict in the Msinga District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] in previous years…
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, White S. African Reporter Pleads Guilty to Treason, Associated Press, 3 November 1986
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early age and received…
BiographyThomas Selema Masekela
Thomas Selema Masekela was born on 16 December 1908 in Madibeng farm near Dikgale near Pietersburg, Transvaal. Seeking education for their children, Masekela\…
BiographySamuel Makoanyane
Samuel Makoanyane was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district…
BiographyAnthony James (Tony) Leon
Tony Leon was born on 15 December 1956 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was born to Sheila Schulz and Ramon Leon. His father was an Advocate and later…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
Daniel William Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican…
BiographyRuben Xulu
Ruben Xulu, born deaf on 10 May 1952 and attended school in Mgangatho from 1955 to 1961. He began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hiabisa mission station and…
Henry Eric Isaacs
Henry Eric Isaacs was born March 21 in 1949,He grew up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His family was of diverse racial composition:one…
BiographyFlorence Matomela
Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx control regulations…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
Jaydew Nasib Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was…
BiographyStephen Bernard Lee
Stephen Lee was arrested in 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with…
BiographyGana Makabeni
Gana Makabeni was born in the Transkei. He attended a Communist night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the…
BiographyMark Shope
Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an…
BiographyBertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver died when Bertha was about four years old, after his death her family…
BiographyJennifer 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…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
We greet you all in the name of the liberation movements of southern Africa, in the name of SWAPO of Namibia, the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe and the African…
PlaceNigeria
… Fund (IMF) loan. The Abortive Third Republic In early 1989, a constituent assembly completed work on a constitution … the government observed some provisions…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… of her husband and several other top ANC leaders in 1989 or with the organisation’s unbanning in 1990. In 1991, …
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
Mr. Chairman, Honourable Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Leaders of Delegations, Excellencies, On behalf of the National Executive…
BiographyJames Maci
James Maci, from the Maci Tribal Area, Harding District, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] was banished on 12 October 1959 to the Kalkspruit Native Trust Farm No. 812,…
BiographyMkhubo Mngomezulu
Mkhubo Mngomezulu, from the Ingwavuma District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], was accused of being one of the ringleaders responsible for unrest in the area. He…