SAHO global search

1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki Memorial …

B-0008767

1925-2000

Alfred Baphetuxolo Nzo

… He was also involved in the campaign to interview people about the kind of society in which they would like to live. …

B-0068295

1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… to re-enter the competition. Grootboom had written a play about polygamy titled “What a wonderful world”. Grootboom’s …

B-0064865

1944

Graeme Pollock

… first two tests of the series was poor. This cast doubts about whether the 19 year old was ready for test cricket. …

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1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… entire night. She was given a pen to write a statement, about her involvement in SASO, as an executive member. The …

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1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… James April . He and April became very vocal ad radical about their political activities; they sprayed graffiti in …

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1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… her work in his office. In this way she began to learn about trade unions. By this time, 1956, she was married to …

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1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… contributed to his political awareness. Matlala taught about inequalities in South Africa and the oppression of …

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1945

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

… worked in Johannesburg . Her parents parted when she was about six years old and she went to live with a maternal …

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1920-1977

Elmon Malele

… were present on his scalp, which he estimated to be about 2 or 3 days old. Mr T J Taljaard, a state pathologist, …

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… in 1944. Then she went to teach at Dithakwaneng village, about thirty-five miles from Vryburg. She left Dithakwaneng …

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… for negotiations which would end apartheid and bring about a new Constitutional dispensation for South Africa, …

B-0007985

1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

… town of Hattingspruit, near Dundee. He worked there for about four years until he was threatened with exposure as an …

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… and Ben Palmer. The police officers tried to "warn" her about these terrible characters that she was associating with …

B-0008047

1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… Africa, Argentina and the Philippines.Mtshali and about 40 exiles attempted to enter South Africa using a …

B-0094345

1960

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo

… study law at the University of Zululand but was concerned about who would take care of his mother and siblings – his … against him. Aside from questions…

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1918-2009

Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng

… actively involved politics to fight the injustice brought about by these laws. She first rose to the position of … North West Province], a distant and…

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18 May1940-2008

Alan Keith Brooks

… Together with Jeremy Brickhill, he wrote a book about the history of the young people's uprising of 1976, … as being in chaotic, and also provided a general…

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1920-2002

Frances Rix Ames

… clear statement from the medical profession’s ethical body about the duties of doctors to their patients, irrespective … testified at the Truth and…

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1892-1985

Dr James Sebe Moroka

… malaise, indecision over forms of protest, and debates about the way forward. Xuma believed that increased … African National “Council”. He was not very…

B-0068105

Paul Mokabe

… described Mokabe as a secretive person who never spoke about his family. “I met him two years ago when I went to the …

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1942

Pitika Ntuli

… in exile and some love poems, Ntuli writes poems about political heroes such as Steve Biko, as well as events … The event is held annually, and aims to…

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1935

Solomon Kerzner

… on the hot and humid beachfront of the Indian Ocean, about to embark on a personal expedition into territory … It would not be long before people would be…

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1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… 1857 that cost the lives of some 30,000 people and caused about 29,000 destitute Xhosa to seek work in the colony. In … dismayed at the high costs of his…

B-0008125

1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… history of Academic Freedom in South Africa—his protests about academic harassment themselves led to intensified … compiling, inter alia, several valuable e…

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… in investigative reporting and her incisive articles about slave-like conditions on Bethal potato farms, the … They had three daughters: Shawn (who was to…

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1852-1917

Isaac Williams Wauchope

… He had a thick mat of hair which suggested he was not about to grow bold.” [2] Born at the dawn of colonialism, … masons, tailors, and shoemakers among them…

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… were taken over by a group of White liberals whose ideas about progress and development had a profound impact in the … articles in the late 1920s expressing…

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1956

Richard Steele

… question his long time congregation, the Baptists. He read about Mahatma Gandhi and came to respect his teachings. After … SAPA, 23 July 1997, Conscripts…

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… Stein made several trips home, to vote and to testify about his torture and imprisonment at the Truth and …

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