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… upper class, but later rebelled against what he perceived to be the pretentious snobbery of that environment. Bailey … footsteps of his mother, who had been the first woman to fly single-handedly from England to the African Continent. Born almost a year after the end of …

… On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange River Colony will … interpretation and whether the Imperial Parliament is bound to accept their definition. 1­ Article 14 of the London … now wish to interpret it, I ask is the British Government bound to give way to their construction, a construction …

… an honours degree in Psychology. Upon completion she went to London to study Drama at the Trinity College. She returned to South Africa and started writing art reviews …

… in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) to Julie and Ebrahim Dangor. She completed her Standard Ten … Accountant. In 1979 Albertina Sisulu recruited Duarte to establish women's structures throughout the country. By … During this period, she worked with Reverend Beyers Naude to set up and administer a scholarship fund to educate and …

… family. He began school in Ermelo, but in 1996 returned to his parents in Soweto. He completed Primary School in Soweto and went on to Orlando North Secondary School and Isaacson High School. … interested in politics and history, and he began to read up on them at libraries. In 1972 he joined the South …

… Club and his mother was a housewife. His mother lived to a ripe age and was able to vote in South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. … of Moodley’s childhood. From Umgeni, the family moved to Wills Road, where their neighbours included political …

… Mabhida's last year of school, who introduced his students to socialist ideas. Mabhida was drawn to trade unionism and joined the Communist Party in 1942. … in the newly revived underground party urged Mabhida to undertake full-time union work. In the next decade, he …

… JoÁ¢o Baptista (1662). As the survivors made their way to safety, they encountered various groups of people with … pastoralists dominated the area around Port Elizabeth, up to the Fish River, while San hunter/gatherers lived in the … some shell middens along the present-day shoreline date back to 120 000 at places such as Klasies River Mouth, west …

… doctor in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a medical practice in Pietermaritzburg. He was the second Black doctor to do so. Most of his patients came from the surrounding …

… in Somerset West.  As a child he worked as a labourer to help support his family. At fourteen, he became a sexton … especially after the government cited racial reasons to force his family to relocate. After graduating from Bellville Theological …

… Zondi was born on 22 October 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu.  He … attended the Burnside Community School in Dundee from 1921 to 1926.  From 1931 to 1932, he then attended the Dundee Intermediate School. …

… started at the Amajeli crèche in 1963. He went on to Seoding Lower Primary, after which he proceeded to Itshepeng Higher Primary. In 1971 he became a student at … Mashinini's political thinking and subsequent adherence to the ideology and philosophy of  Black Consciousness . He …

… sanctions against South Africa and assistance to struggle for freedom. Mr E.S. Reddy was born in 1924 to a politically active family in Andhra Pradesh, South … 1941. Reddy recalls that his mother gave all her jewellery to Gandhi when he visited Gudar in 1933 during a tour to …

… his employer and in 1902, at the age of 22, he was sent to South Africa to represent the company as a buyer in Kimberley. On 19 June … was active in civil life and in 1908 he was elected to the city council, becoming mayor in 1912. He helped to …

… the local primary school and in Standard Six he went to live with a white missionary couple to continue his schooling at the All Saints Mission near … philosophy. However, the person who inspired Xundu to enter the ministry was the late Rev. James Calata, an …

… in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle … (SACP) and as a result, her parents did not allow her to get too close to them out of fear of the consequences that would come from … in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, From World War II to the Present Day. Routledge: London Anonymous. (1973). …

… National Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which enabled the apartheid government to enforce racial segregation in demarcated areas, and the Senate Bill in 1955 which led to the government being able to remove coloured people from …

… up in Zimbabwe . She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto . When she was 29 years old she decided to join the  African National Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to boycott Bantu Education . She moved onto the Coronation …

… 1709 as the son of a peasant family. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 16. In 1726, Schmidt set off on foot for Herrnhut in Saxony and started preparing to become an evangelist. On his first evangelistic mission in 1728, he was sent to Bohemia and was incarcerated for six years for addressing …

… the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment in Robben Island for the … Cape in 1963. While in prison Pokela attempted tirelessly to unite PAC factions on Robben Island. After his release in …

… only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she moved to Cape Town , where her husband was employed. In 1948 she … brief jail term for civil disobedience. Annie was elected to the executive committee of the Federation of South African … in 1954. Though she was almost illiterate, she had come to the forefront as one of the leaders of the women’s …

… forced out of the market by a combination of legislation to entrench the position of South African Railways and … was often involved in disputes concerning bus fares to and from Alexandra. Between 1939 and 1940 he apparently … with the bus company for the lowering of the fare to the original.As community leader of Alexandra Baloyi also …

… was killed in the Swazi – Pedi war. In 1870 he went to work in Pietermaritzburg's sugar plantation in order to buy a rifle. He found work in Mr. Acutt. After working for … a period of not more than six months, he left for Durban to find better employment there. It was in Durban that his …

… Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From September 1986 to August 1988, she managed to acquire a Post Graduate Diploma in Administrative Studies … Relations, Potsdam, East Germany (former GDR) from January to June 1989.  Ngwevela served in diverse capacities as …

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then moved to Soweto . Manzini suffered from polio as a child and as a result spent close to four years in the hospital until the age of 6. Manzini’s … University in Northern Transvaal, where she worked hard to remain politically active despite the banning of the South …

… African forces in World War II for four years and went on to attend Exeter College in Oxford on an ex-serviceman’s … Fellow of the College. In 1949, Kentridge was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar. Kentridge practised for more than 30 … chairperson of the Johannesburg Bar Council from 1972 to 1973. Five years later, in 1977, he was called to the …

… at Kwa Mdingi Lower Primary School before going on to Kwa Mdingi High School. He later attended a technical … served in South Africa, Egypt, Libya and Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the army with the rank of Corporal in 1946 – … he made it possible for Black people in the Eastern Cape to take up employment and to reside within the urban areas of …

… Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck … commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to establish a refreshment station for passing ships. The … before it fell to the British Crown , before reverting back to Dutch Rule in 1803 and again to British occupation in …

… a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts with Political Science as … a huge influence on my thinking and probably was the key to persuading me to go into student politics and become a student political …

… States of America and Britain. He left the country in 1962 to study at the University of Wisconsin in the U.S. He has … became involved in training programmes for new recruits to  Umkhonto we Sizwe , employing his academic background in history to compile a syllabus for political training.In 1979, on the …