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BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
… behind Inkatha, calling on his followers to support the organisation and warning those who did not. In 1989 he …
BiographyRica Hodgson
… she became a fund-raiser for the Springbok Legion – an organisation comprising of left orientated ex-servicemen that …
BiographyRoy Padayachie
… the Croftdene Resident’s Association (CRA), a powerful organisation that took up local issues. He also played a …
BiographyDavid Hartman
… was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman attended St Andrews College in …
BiographyWangari Maathai
… her tree planting initiative into a broad-based grassroots organisation centred on women groups conserving the … Movement, as a grassroots environmental non…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… (Ox-wagon torch guard), where he served as a leader of the organisation. He was nearly interned by the military at one … 1941, wrote a scathing letter to Die…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… charged with intensive political study. He belonged to an organisation called the Progressive Forum, which was an organisation of non Stalinist-Marxist…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… who she thought had the potential of becoming a mass-based organisation - one that would be able to politically educate … Tanzania , for a seminar of the…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… in Cape Town in 1983 of which the NIC was an affiliated organisation. Gordhan worked as a volunteer for the NIC's … of the Forum on Tax Administration (FTA)…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… of the prominent leaders of the ANC, the African People’s Organisation (APO) and the Natal and Transvaal Indian … youth politics in South Africa. The South…
BiographyRaymond Basil van Staden
Raymond Basil van Staden was born on 27 January 1961 at the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied Security Management, Forensic…
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in…
BiographyMark Shinners
Mark Shinners grew up in Attridgeville in Pretoria. He became involved in politics as a teenager and joined the Pan Africanist Congress(PAC). This was shortly…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
… and uncompromising president of the Azanian Students Organisation, an affiliate of the United Democratic Front, …
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town. She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape liberal…
BiographyNosipho Dastile
… activism grew, she was elected as the Uitenhage Women’s Organisation’s first president and also became the region’s … of the UDF, first president of the…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… . During its formation the South African Student Movement (SASM) and other organizations of the Black Consciousness (BC) … correspondence colleges. Soon…
ArchiveLetter from Mzuvukile Maqetuka to the Secretary of the South African Students Movement
… to the Secretary of the South African Student's Movement (SASM) discussing plans for editing of the SASM newsletter. …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… education from the church and introduced the idea that the organisation of public schooling is a responsibility of the … a state of unrest and students set…
ArchiveMemorandum: South African Students Movement
… Memorandum on SASM, apparently prepared as part of legal action, in Afrikaans with extensive quotations in English from SASM documents. Translation of the…
ArchiveSouth African Students Movements History
… (ASM), later becoming the South African Students Movement (SASM). The article traces the develoment of the SASM. …
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
BiographyKgalabi Jafta Masemola
Kgalabi Jafta Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many others, was born at Bon Accord near Pretoria on 12 December 1931. He…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… Association (BSA). He was elected secretary of the organisation and Caledon Mda was elected Chairperson. The aim … Tambo also led an ANC delegation to the…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… some of the founding members of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) , which was a Black Consciousness organisation. He spent two days under the…
ArchiveSouth African Students Organisation: Constitution and standing rules: adopted as revised and amended at the 2nd General Students Council, July 1971, Durban
… South African Students Organisation: Constitution and standing rules: adopted as …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… in the ANC's Defiance Campaign in the early 1950s, as the organisation in Natal had not been developed sufficiently. … In addition, Gumede was secretary of…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
… also a member of the Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation (SHWCO). Wilson’s quest to understand South …
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
… members of Women’s Movement for Peace, a multiracial organisation with the purpose of restoring peace following …
BiographyJacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi
… and Doctors for Life International (a non-governmental organisation) expressed dismay at Selebi's recommendation and …