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BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
… Degree in Science (BSc) and left the country in 1976 to complete her MB ChB at the University of Bristol in 1978. … Student Organisation (SASO). Dlamini-Zuma…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
… Malawi in 1904 and his mother was the first African woman to teach in colonial Zambia. Initially, the young Kaunda … master and then headmaster at Lubwa…
BiographyDr Ahmed Ismail Limbada
… Movement of South Africa (NEUM). When Dr Limbada returned to Dundee he started a study group for young activists. He would hand them assignments, and compel…
BiographyShaka Zulu
… founder but later military defeat and calculated attempts to break it up. Shaka was a son of Senzangakhona, ruler of an … but that the couple were not yet…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… began his career as a teacher at Healdtown before moving to Thaba Nchu in the Free State. After a while in Thaba Nchu he returned to Johannesburg and managed…
BiographyJames Matthews
… was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing standard seven, Matthews began to work and held a variety of…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
… the second child and oldest son (two younger brothers were to follow). His father worked as a school inspector while his … He attended schools in Utrecht and…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to South Africa with his Scottish wife in1895, entered public life in 1904 when he became the first…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
… He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His family were descendants of African slaves who had been brought to the…
BiographyErnest Cole
… Education was introduced, and unsuccessfully attempted to complete his Matric (Grade 12) via correspondence through Wolsey Hall, Oxford, due to financial…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
… could no longer box, his love for the sport led him to pursue a career as a trainer and later as a boxing writer. In 1955, he moved to Dube Village, Soweto…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
… League Manifesto of 1944. Later that year he returned to Natal to take up the editorship of Inkundla ya Bantu, the … names "Kanyisa" and "Twana," he made …
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
… Agency for two years. In 1950, at the age of 19, he moved to South Africa to join his mother and stepfather. In September 1951 he … in the early 1960s. He…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … a long and rich history of inventing creative approaches to workers’…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … organisation at the time, mobilised a regional general strike to…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… Tswana mineworker who later opened a café. Though exposed to politics at a young age - his father was a Cape voter and … - Matthews devoted the first part of…
BiographyAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
… of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary trip to the interior before he decided to take part in the migration in 1838. He took part in … Natal, or…
BiographyLawrence Schlemmer
… at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of … the University of Cape Town in 1999. …
BiographyRica Hodgson
… Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all … the early 1940s, until her retirement…
BiographyDavid Hartman
… liberal home. His mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and … and his conviction that he should use his…
Elias Monare
… Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ in the Vryburg district [Northern Cape, now North West Province]…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
… Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the African National Congress (ANC) activist and trade … the country immediately after the 1976 Student Uprisings to…
BiographyValiamma Munuswami Mudaliar
… Valiamina Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of Gandhi ’s Satyagraha in … and her mother joined other women who…
Interview with Oliver Tambo in Luanda after summit meeting of Presidents of frontline states and Southern African Liberation Movements, 01 March 1977
… David Owen on southern Africa are of great interest to the whole world, to the African continent and especially … ago. It is impossible to imagine we would…
O. R. Tambo interviewed in Luanda after Summit Meeting of Presidents of Frontline States and Southern African Liberation Movements, 1977
… David Owen on southern Africa are of great interest to the whole world, to the African continent and especially … ago. It is impossible to imagine we would…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… time. He was born in 1851 in Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana) to Zaqueu Francisco. Zaqueu Francisco was the son of a West African woman who was enslaved and taken…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
… Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in … a village near Polokwane. As a child, Semenya…
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
… Indian High School and was one of only 12 black students to be accepted by the Medical Faculty of the University of … that there was no place at any of the…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
… of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to exert dominance in big business. Yet Taubie Kushlick, an … the commerce of theatre in this…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… (UNISA). This achievement earned him the Ebden scholarship to study at Cambridge University. In October of that year, he entered Christ’s College in…