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BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
Leonard Maqhatshu Mdingi was born on 2 February1926. He grew up at his family homesteads first near Bizana, and then in Amadiba Location towards the coast in…
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
… later charged with furthering aims of the ANC, a banned organisation but he was acquitted. Shortly after his release, …
BiographyMolefi Nathanael Oliphant
Molefi Nathanael Oliphant was born on 6 March 1952 in Kroonstad, Free State. He started his career as a teacher in 1975 at Lekoa Shandu High School in…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… (BCM) and the formation of South African Students Organisation (SASO) raised the political consciousness of … fold. Not only would this make it the largest…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… Front (UDF) , and community movement, KwaMashu Youth Organisation. On 18 May 1982, facing constant harassment from … to the formation of the Constitution of…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… political mobilisation. Any attempts towards political organisation and discussions held by students were met with … at school, Cothoza was also part of…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
Early Life and Teaching Career Matsie Angelina Motshekga (popularly known as Angie Motshekga) was born on 19 June 1955 in Soweto, Transvaal (now known as…
ArchivePlan van kantore op die vyfde verdieping Lekton Huis, Wandererstraat 5, Johannesburg wat op 1977-10-19, duursoek deur Luitenant J.I. De Waal en Waal
… A plan of the offices of BCP and SASM in Johannesburg as prepared by police. …
ArchiveSouth African Students Movement Minutes of the Fourth General Student Council, Roodepoort, 4th July 1977
… Minutes of the SASM Student Council Meeting with the theme "Students now, …
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… Association, an African National Congress (ANC) front organisation but only came to the fore on the political front …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… Freedoms Forum, and the Detainees' Education and Welfare Organisation. Webster and Bruce Fordyce , South Africa’s …
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
… the tripartite Conference held by the International Labour Organisation every June in Geneva, and he always made it …
BiographyJohn James Issel
… student movement, the South African Student Organisation (SASO) , and was elected its first chairperson …
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… and found guilty of furthering the interests of a banned organisation under the Unlawful Organisations Act. A prison …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… the Communist Party when it was revived as a clandestine organisation. And since going into exile in 1960, he played a … of Edinburgh, Dr Monty Naicker was…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… in the twentieth century. Under Kohler's leadership this organisation saved the wine industry from certain ruin. It … quality wine was excluded from the act…
ArchiveInterview with Murphy Morobe
… he became involved in the South African Students Movement (SASM) …
ArchiveS.A S.M. May/June l975
… SASM Newsletter that contains articles that reflect the …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… were printed and distributed to the members of the organisation and on the 21st of March, on Monday, in … Movement (BCM) and the formation of South African…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
Alpheus Madaba Madiba born in 1901, in Nzhelele in the northern Transvaal, into a Venda peasant family.He emigrated to Johannesburg when he was 17 and found…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
Mary Elizabeth Davis was born in Portobello County, Edinburgh, Scotland on 26 December 1858. She was a business person and supporter of women’s causes. Davis…
BiographyPhindile Mfeti
Phindile Mfeti, a first cousin of former State President Thabo Mbeki and nephew of Govin Mbeki was born on 15 December 1946, at Nqamakwe, Eastern Cape. He was…
BiographyViacheslav “Ivan” Shiryaev
Viacheslav Shiryaev, popularly known as Comrade Ivan, was born in January 1938 in the town of Orsk, south of Urals, Russia. He completed the Higher Engineers…
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
Phathekile Holomisa was born on 26 August 1959 in the Eastern Cape. He went to the University of Natal during the mid 1980’s where he received a Bachelor of…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
Pixie Benjamin was a strong anti-apartheid political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh punishment under…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… of the secret Afrikaner-Broederbond (AB). He joined the organisation after the coalition, partly (as he stated in an … towards parliamentarianism, Swart…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… Congress (SAIC); the South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) and the South African Congress of … (with SACPO). At the time, SACPO was not a…