SAHO global search

1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… (BAMCWU). He became the regional organiser for Limpopo in 1983 and was elected its Secretary General in 1984. In 1986 …

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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… of the ANC and gave regular history lessons in prison. In 1983 Fazzie was released from Robben Island and returned to …

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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… Head of the ANC's Department of International Affairs in 1983. After the National Consultative Conference of the ANC …

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1941-2007

Hilary Mutch

… centre for urban educational studies from 1981 to 1983. She became the deputy head for Bolingbroke primary …

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… wife) Johanna (Jansie) Lourens were arrested in August 1983. During the same period Niehaus completed a degree in …

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1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… education at Mathonsi Primary School in Mandeni around 1983. He then proceeded to do his high school education at …

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1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… joined the African National Congress (ANC) underground. In 1983, she helped form the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW), …

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1945

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

… Central Operations headquarters (HQ) from 1976 to 1980. In 1983, she became a member of the military headquarters and …

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1939

Jonty Driver

… a Research Fellow at the University of York. From 1978 to 1983 Driver worked as a headmaster at Berkhamsted School. He …

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1957

Saleem Badat

… United Democratic Front (UDF) following its founding in 1983. Following this, Dr Badat then edited a Western Cape …

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1948-2020

Achmat Dangor

… South Africa.  Publications:    Poetry:  Bulldozer  (1983) Private Voices  (1992) Novels: Waiting for Leila …

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1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… until Standard Nine, and at the age of fifteen gave birth to her only child and few years later. She joined the …

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1955

Shirley Gunn

… a ploy by the security police to arrest Gunn. After the birth of her son, Gunn who was on her way to a family get …

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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola

… South Africa.   * Some sources give Masemola’s date of birth as 1928. ** Some sources give the date of death as 19 …

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1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

… their manuscript to the press four days before the birth of their son, William Smith, and in 1942 their book Sea …

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1929-2000

Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty

… was involved with the Combined Ratepayers Association.  In 1983 he was elected Chairperson of the Pietermaritzburg …

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1918-2011

Judge Erns Jansen

… an Appeal Court judge for 20 years. A judgment he wrote in 1983 in Mandela v Minister of Prisons underlined the point. …

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Kenneth Mosenyi

… subsided. No one would like to say a word.’ Interviewed in 1983, he recalled that it was said that listening to the …

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Elliot Shabangu

… in the Transvaal. When the UDF was formally established in 1983 Shabangu was elected as the Vice-President of the UDF …

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1952

Molefi Nathanael Oliphant

… School in Sharpeville, rising to the rank of principal in 1983 at Lebohang High School in Boipatong. He was promoted to …

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1938

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

… in exile. He lived in Britain between 1982 and 1989. In 1983 he wrote Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in …

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1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

… she became vice president of the World YWCA from 1983 to 1995. She co-ordinated programmes and projects in …

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1933-1965

Ingrid Jonker

… and a play, were published in 1975 and re-issued in 1983 and 1994. Former President Nelson Mandela , in …

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1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… Brenda and the Big Dudes. Her first recording was made in 1983 with the hit single “Weekend Special”, which became the …

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… its National Executive Committee (NEC). Between 1980 and 1983, he served on the Revolutionary Council (RC) of the ANC …

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1938-2002

Stephen Vukile Tshwete

… took up a teaching post and continued political work. In 1983, with the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), …

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… as the ANC Director of International Affairs from 1978 to 1983. During this term, he advised on international policy …

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1953

Edwin Cameron

… began practice as a lawyer at the Johannesburg Bar in 1983, and from 1986 conducted a human rights practice from …

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1953-2008

Ivan Toms

… for the 60000 inhabitants at this settlement. In September 1983, a three-week confrontation erupted between the …

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1944-1998

Basil Coetzee

… by the United Democratic Front (UDF) . For instance, in 1983 he played alongside Paul Abrahams at the launch of the …

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