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… which was active in the Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 and lived for some time with J.P. Vyas in Pretoria, to study book-keeping. Soon after his arrival, Gandhiji, then leading a Satyagraha, went to Pretoria for negotiations with General Smuts and stayed …

… a banishment order dated 8 March 1954 that banished her to Uitkyk Farm No. 92 in the Groblersdal district of the … and other leaders from Witzieshoek, there continued to be opposition to state interventions. Mopeli was considered a leader of the …

… Natal and Limpopo where there is still attachment to the soil, differs greatly from that of the Free State and the Cape countryside where, to a large extent, rural people eke out a living as farm … These peculiarities can only be understood by going back to the past - to the history of land dispossession and …

… century.   1914 28 June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife … the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade sends dispatch to Vienna accusing Serbian complicity in the assassination. … troops and take the city of Ypres. The Germans were beaten back and the onset of the Belgian winter forced them to …

… early age and was raised by his sister. The family moved to Marabastad and then to Atteridgeville in 1942 where he enrolled at De Jong … School and completed standard six in 1947. He proceeded to Hofmeyr Secondary School where he obtained a Junior …

… Dingane ka Senzangakhona was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela … had his half-brother Mhlangana murdered and thus rose to the position of Chief of the Zulu. Dingane moved the royal homestead from Nobamba in the emaKhosini valley to a new inland location which he called Mgungundlovu from …

… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) when he was 10. In 1940, after finishing school, he signed up to join the army.   He was a soldier during World War II in … shrapnel in an air raid. After the war, Middleton returned to Pietermaritzburg and began working at Eddels shoe factory, …

… constraints. During this period, the party attempted to reinvigorate itself by changing its name from the SANNC to … National Native Congress (SANNC) helps to organise a strike of more than 40 000 African mineworkers on the … Bukharin, in Russia, is a new draft resolution sent back to South Africa “suggesting” the CPSA adopt a new …

… is the three Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa began to play a leading part in the campaign of the Nationalist Party to disrupt the trade unions. They came out openly on the side … report were published. A copy was brought to me during a strike of tobacco workers in Rustenburg in the Transvaal in …

… on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as … died a few years later. Qabula and his two brothers went to live with his father’s parents. After his mother died, … younger brother, Mtu. As a result they would take turns to go to school on alternative days – one would go to school …

… of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to political meetings and became fully conversant with the … politically active. She became the first Muslim girl to attend high school in the transvaal. In her teenage years she met Yusuf Dadoo , after he returned to South Africa from medical stuidies in Edinburgh and was …

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 … powerful public speaker. In his first year he was elected to the Students' Representative Council and served as its president from 1952 to 1954. He was also vice-president of the National Union of …

… as a domestic worker. Household conditions forced Florence to drop out of the school during Std 6 and look for a job to assist her mother to raise her siblings. She first worked as a domestic worker …

… family moved around in a few small towns in Argentina, due to her father’s business. The family moved to Brazil  when her father was transferred there in 1952. She … and France,trained as a journailst and in 1959 went to work for weekly Times of Brazil.The family settled in …

… where he went with his grandmother Sarah Mthembu to work in the mealie fields, at age seven. His grandmother … during school he was "chucked out for not being able to afford school fees, uniforms, books." He went to the University of Fort Hare but was later expelled, and …

… in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her Honors degree. While studying for her Honors …  (ANC) in 1980 and became an active member. In addition to her political work, she became involved activities of the … part of community organisations that became a platform to articulate struggles of people in Cape Town. She served on …

… of Stellenbosch for their work. Their dedication to philanthropy left its mark. Turning 80, Steyn recollected … as an advocate at the Cape Bar in 1950, after clerking to the later Chief Justice Ogilvie Thompson. The early years … and did law-reporting for the book company, Juta & Co, to keep the wolf from the door. He became one of the youngest …

… clay pots, ceremonial attire and medicinal items dating back to the mid-19th Century. We have a particular love and … they are made, their beauty and their function. We exist to treasure, share and inspire. The Phansi Museum houses some … Phansi Museum webpage https://www.sa-venues.com/things-to-do/kwazulunatal/visit-the-phansi-museum/ …

… Areas Act , Act No 41 was passed in 1950. As he matured to adolescence through the 1950s and the early 1960s, the Nationalist controlled government began to vigorously institutionalize apartheid. The Bantu … Act No 45 were among the many acts passed in the 1950s to further segregation and control mobility and limit the …

… Church.He attended the University of the Witwatersrand to study architecture and then dropped out to take up a position as paymaster at Simmer and Jack, one of … reputation as a preacher. Consequently, Kotze converted to Christianity and through his future in-laws began to meet …

… at the Communist Party. Other formations that opposed to the government's racist policies also felt the wrath of … The term communism was extensively defined. It referred to any non-parliamentary political opposition to the … Council. The Franchise Action Council organised a one-day strike in which Black and Coloured people came together to …

… people of the village of Kranspoort that also contributed to her political awakening. The dispute centred on whether … be buried in the mission graveyard.  The Dominee refused to allow the burial since he considered the woman to be a heathen who had not converted to Christianity.  In …

… bought a farm near the Koega River and eventually moved to Grahamstown, Eastern Cape where he made his fortune. He … lost his money in a bad business decision and was forced to return to farming near the Great Winterberg. During this time the …

… in 1944 when the business college she attended sent her to work as a bookkeeper at the South African Typographical … a year she quit her job as typographical union in 1945, to work for the Garment Workers' Industrial Union (GWIU). The … the garment and furniture workers said would I like to go on working for them and be their secretary because I …

… of Johannesburg.” This Act was specifically instituted to displace Africans from Sophiatown, a largely African … township of Johannesburg, which had become a threat to the apartheid regime. Sophiatown menaced the White regime … Asian-owned stores lit on fire. In March 1950, a labour strike, organised on May Day by the ANC, the Communist Party, …

… the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me the newspaper file I needed. He was … is both personal and political. The politics referred to is not about the science and art of government, but more … effect of the Broederbond was insidious, the 1946 miners’ strike was the seminal event of the labour force in the 1940s …

… a shipbuilder’s office. He became a reporter before moving to the Cape Colony in 1858 because of health reasons. He … was situated at the frontier, in contested terrain close to Xhosa settlements. Political career Sprigg became a member … as a candidate for East London. He was one of the first to urge a separation of the eastern and western halves of the …

… was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee Pillay. The … in South Africa when Monty's grandfather came from India to South Africa as a contract labourer. Monty matriculated at … In 1928 he left for the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to study medicine. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1934 …

… Thambi Naidoo , was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of Hermann … could stay. Eventually, Thambi Naidoo took his family to live on the farm. Veerammal worked as a cook at Tolstoy … marketing and sanitation. As she grew up, her father used to tell her stories of the struggle for freedom in South …

… Congress  (ANC). In March 1913, Ndabezitha was a delegate to the SANNC Annual Conference, which campaigned against the … of 1913 .  At this conference, a deputation was appointed to present African objectives to the Government in Cape Town.  He was part of the team that …