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BiographyAnthony Molebatsi Nkotsi
1979: Soweto Oppenheimer Towers (Mofolo Arts Centre Students).
BiographyMathews Samuel Mjiza
June 1982. Banned for two years under the Internal Security Act.
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
Alpheus Madaba Madiba born in 1901, in Nzhelele in the northern Transvaal, into a Venda peasant family.He emigrated to Johannesburg when he was 17 and found…
BiographyEdward Sineke Tyaliti
In a letter to the NAD [Native Affairs Department] Secretary dated 14 August 1958, the CM [Chief Magistrate] claimed that [Kaizer] Matanzima was keen on…
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was…
Fenuel Mogatusi
Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
Yazeed Kamaldien is a freelance journalist and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech…
BiographyHarold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to…
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
BiographyZwelidumisle Mjekula
… Mjekula was executed at Pretoria Central Prison in 1989. …
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites objective of MK bombing campaign: TRC told, SAPA, 13 May 1998
BiographyMazizi Magekaza
A member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was killed in his hospital bed, in a raid in Lesotho, 1988.
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… in most campuses including colleges and technickons. In 1989 questions about the justification for separate racially …
BiographyEric Maga
Eric Maga (Jongile Mzwandile) was executed by order of the uMkhonto we Sizwe( MK) Military Tribunal in Angola in 1984.
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to control their movements. The first time Pass…
BiographyAndrew Madi
Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Died in exile in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1979.
BiographyMikki Sivuyile Mac Millan Xayiya
Mikki Sivuyile Mac Millan Xayiya was imprisoned at Robben Island - prison number 46/85 - from 1985 to 1990.
BiographyNobuhle Hilary Mohapi
Nobuhle Hillary Mohapi, the widow of Mapetla Mohapi who died in detention, was banned for five years, in 1979, under the Internal Security Act.
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… the Road to the City" (1985) , A Rainbow on the Paper Sky (1989), and "The Shelter of Memories" (1990) . His poem "There … review of A Rainbow on the Paper…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
Compatriots, As the New Year begins, and on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of your vanguard movement, the African National Congress, we extend to…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
Abstract Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani was a jazz musician who performed during the apartheid era. He played for almost his entire career in exile before passing away…
BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste…
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s…
BiographyJackson Mbhazima Hlungwani
Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to…
BiographyBernard Gcwensa
Bernard Gcwensa was born in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at Collies School in…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
Meshach Pelem was born in Mxumbu near King William's Town in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in…
BiographyCynthia Shange
Cynthia Shange was born in Lamontville, Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title…
William Nomodi Tshwane
Mr William Nomodi Tshwane was reported to have been detained with other Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modderbee prison in Johannesburg.Police…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
Honorine Margaret (Mabel) Withers was born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa…