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BiographySindiwe Magona
… works, to initiate writers’ conferences, lead women’s rights advocacy groups and write children’s educational … and Femina. She is also recognised for her…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
… was actively involved in the women's movement and women issues. Mophosho mobilised women in Alexander for the … ANC. She marvelously integrated the struggle…
Representation of Blacks Act No 12, removing Black voters in the Cape from the common roll and placing them on a separate roll,
… Representation of Blacks Act No 12, removing Black voters in …
BiographyWilliam Tilden McClain
… sailing and shooting. He was keenly involved in the civil rights movement and labour issues. After graduating from Law School, he worked on the … also…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… by the African National Congress to study problems and issues concerning African rights contained within the Atlantic Charter. The United …
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… this, he was at the forefront of those who ended Coloured representation in Parliament in 1956. In October 1958 Dr H. … known that he argued with Cabinet…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… concession. In April 1936, the Union Parliament passed the Representation of Natives Act . Africans were eliminated from … on a day- to-day basis, and…
BiographyDali Tambo
… he asked him why he had not addressed pressing political issues such as the land grabs, human rights violations and political rights violations that Zimbabwe…
BiographyMartin Lutuli
… an organization that pressed for increased political representation for Africans as well as for economic and …
BiographyBhungwana Saul Mngomezulu
According to documentation related to his banishment order, in 1965, after the death of Chief Zombizwe, Ntunja Mngomezulu was appointed chief of the Mngomezulu…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
BiographySimon Nkoli
… Nkoli was integral in founding a number of major gay rights movements and organisations in the country including … division. Nkoli knew that his sexuality…
BiographyRodger Bosch
… exhibition, Wading . He has covered a variety of human rights, environmental, and other social issues in places as far afield as Chad, Angola, Ethiopia and …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… (ASC) to oppose the Pegging Act and obtain full franchise rights for the Indian population. On 6 May 1944, the newly … Smuts introduced the Asiatic Land…
BiographyEmile Maurice
… African cultural history with a view to greater equity and representation in the context of colonial and apartheid …
ArchiveNegotiating Culture in Contemporary South Africa: Photographic self-representations from the Cape Flats by Heike Becker
African Minds Higher Education Dynamics Series Vol. 2 - Student Politics in Africa Representation and Activism, edited by Thierry M Luescher, Manja Klemenčič and James Otieno Jowi
… Dynamics Series Vol. 2 - Student Politics in Africa Representation and Activism, edited by Thierry M Luescher, …
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… who helped broaden Govender’s understanding of the issues facing many people in the country. As a result, she … pamphlets, and educational materials on…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… early years, she did, however, remain actively involved in issues that faced society through various community projects … and was the founding executive…
BiographyPhikinkani Zulu
There was conflict in the Tokazi location in the Usutu Area, Nongoma District, Natal [now Kwazulu-Natal], around Bantu Affairs (BA), betterment and the role…
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
… Resistance Campaign after the Asiatic Land Tenure and Representation Act /46 (“The Ghetto Act”) was passed, … , Satyagraha against the Asiatic Land…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… and complaints were laid with the South African Human Rights Commission by several opposition political parties, … were prejudiced against Malema and had…
BiographyWilliam George Ballinger
… 1960,when the Verwoerd government stopped all Africans representation in Parliament.In 1953 he was a founding member …
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… [3] Wanting to stop the passing of the Separate Representation of Voter’s Bill , Newton Thompson, together … However, regardless of their marches against the…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… at Leiden University and wrote his doctoral thesis on the rights of colonists. The younger Brand was educated at the … independent in 1854. Brand was…
BiographyDeseni Soobben
… and, to this end, has written a paper on the photographic representation of women in the print media. She holds a …
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… possible. The antiapartheid leaders learned from the Civil Rights movement in America that was developing at the same … voices to be heard [36] . The same…
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… nothing would alter the realities of racism and human rights abuses, Stopforth moved to the United States in 1988. … Stopforth has always maintained interest…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… coloured voters in the Cape from the Common Roll. It was issues of this kind, involving questions of justice and human rights, that stirred him most and…
BiographyMoebien Wadee
… Support Group, visiting detainees in prison, organising representation, dispensing medical treatment, providing …