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… in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under one roof. During … and Sydney Kumalo at the Jubilee Art Centre from 1960 to 1964. He became a teacher at the centre in 1965 when he took over Kumalo’s post as assistant to Skotnes. Legae received a scholarship from the US-SA …

… the Chancellor’s Prize in 1897.In 1900 Bunting volunteered to serve in the British army in the Second Anglo-Boer War . When the war ended he decided to stay on and settled in Johannesburg where he worked as a … away from the Labour Party, differing with its choice to participate in the First World War. Bunting helped form …

… Department of Manpower until 1981. In 1982, Benny moved to Johannesburg where he worked in the youth  ministry of a … national advisory committee. In 1986, Benny left his job to take up full time employment with the South African Black … Between April and August 1989 he travelled with Mothopeng to the United States, the United Kingdom,Britain (where …

… he fell in with swtudent radicals who introduced him to Trotskyism.Gordon soon moved to Johannesburg where he worked to revive the faltering African Laundry Worker's Union.In May … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele .From Protest to Challenge 4-Political Profiles (1882-1990)  …

… in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to Johannesburg in 1931, eventually establishing himself as a peddler. He joined a night school to earn a Standard 7 certificate, and sought to educate himself politically by attending Communist Party …

… 1956 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was born to Sheila Schulz and Ramon Leon. His father was an Advocate … at Clifton Preparatory School in Durban and later moved to Kearsney College. Leon went on to register a law degree with the  University of …

… in 1834 was appointed along with five other missionaries to undertake missionary work in South Africa. The … and their wives sailed from Boston, Massachusetts to Cape Town on 3 December 1834 and arrived in the Cape on 5 … Durban) from Cape Town on “The Dove” and proceeded to the capital of Dingane at Mgungundhlovu to obtain the Zulu …

… David de Keyser, a marriage that lasted 10 years. She went to Britain to study further, and it was there that she learned of the … immediately returned home, and found herself being asked to run messages and help with underground work for the  …

… Portuguese descent born in Kimberley , but she converted to Islam and took the name Amina. Fatima Meer's father, … scholarship, religious tolerance and tireless opposition to discrimination to his children. Moosa was also the editor and publisher of …

… devoted Anglicans. From his local school, Mda proceeded to further his studies at the Catholic institutions of St … of Matatiele. After he qualified as teacher, Mda struggled to secure a teaching job in the Eastern Cape until he settled … in a White household in East London. In 1937, he set off to the Witwatersrand with the hope of landing a teaching …

… Acting Chairman of BIA when Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia went to prison. He served three terms of imprisonment in 1908–09: … for hawking without licence; sentenced on 3 March 1909 to three months with hard labour; sentenced again on 20 October to three months with hard labour. On 23 January 1909, Aswat …

… Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, … in France along with many other Huguenot refugees to the Cape and elsewhere.  Terre'Blanche's grandfather, … in the then Transvaal.  The AWB’s intention was to establish a homeland for the Boer ‘volk’ (people). He left …

… he was twenty-three. They corresponded after his return to South Africa, and eventually in June 1907 they married in … including Mohandas Gandhi . Olive Schreiner came to know Ruth Alexander in the context of their mutual … her personality too. Schreiner’s earliest extant letter to Alexander dates from December 1909, and they remained …

… in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist  Episcopal … township of Randfontein.His family subsequently moved to Evanon near Vereening.Make attended Tiger Kloof and … increase was very successful.  An  agreement was reached to reverse the fare increase.  Even then, many people refused …

… with SACPO. Initially groups of volunteers would go out to distribute 'advanced propaganda' and to discuss the campaign with residents on a house-to-house basis". Thereafter, depending on the strength of the …

… Great Zimbabwe  When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to Great Zimbabwe and this area took control of the Indian … guides, places to sleep and ensure his safety on his way back to Europe. The journey home took Marco Polo 3 years. He …

… Valentine Tobias was born on October 14, 1925. He went to St Andrew School and later moved to Durban High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942. … of 15 even before he finished his schooling, he decided to study medicine after his sister, Val, who was 21, died of …

… in  the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1930s to 1940s.After primary school Calata trained to become a teacher while also studying for the Anglican … the Cape Voters' Association.In the mid-1928 he was posted to St.James'Mission in the Afrikaans-speaking town of …

…  was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923 where they died from Asian flu … taken care of by friends and family before being given to a Methodist couple who renamed him John Carlton.  After …

… in 1951 at the Charles Max Secondary School. From 1951 to 1958 he attended the Kilnerton Training Institution at … In 1969 Jan Krige of Menlo Park arranged for him to attend fortnightly lessons with Johann du Preez, an art … In 1995 Makhubedu and Lubisi were commissioned by Transnet to paint six panels on aspects of South African history for …

… He attended the University of Stellenbosch. Schoon moved to the University of Witwatersrand to continue with his post-graduate studies. While at the … , protested his son’s treatment in prison and resigned to join the Progressive Federal Party . While Schoon was in …

… in cricket from an early age. In 1992, Rhodes shot to cricket stardom when he ran out Pakistani batsman Inzamam … acrobatics in pursuit of the ball are renowned. He seems to be able to successfully execute the nearly impossible catches with …

… the previous black inhabitants were well on their way to becoming non-persons, and in their place were white … suspicion that there was gold on the Witwatersrand went back to the 1850s, but the prospectors were looking in the wrong …

… was born on 28 May 1881 in Dal Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte … a teacher in Montagu for two and a half years. He returned to Stellenbosch to further his studies and soon left for the Universities of …

… the times of apartheid, Blacks were continuously sent to prison for little or no reason making it even more difficult to resist apartheid. While it is well known that many black … When she was released from prison she intended on going back to the University of South Africa to finish her masters, …

… followed his father and work in the post office.From 1980 to 1981, Coetzee was a commander at Vlakplaas police … Cape who was interrogated and beaten then handed over to Coetzee who had him shot and his body burned. In 1970 he … police inquiry. On compassionate grounds, he was allowed to retire from the police force in 1986 as medically unfit …

… Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was classifiedas a ‘Cape … walk about 10 miles (about 16km) on the morning of a match to help prepare the wicket, watering and rolling it so it would bake hard on the surface and had to nail the playing mat down to the pitch, placing rocks and …

… Tonjeni was born in 1895 in the Transkei and later went to Cape Town, where he joined the  Communist Party of South … National Congress . He left the CPSA in 1929 but continued to co-operate with left-wing leaders and to use  Umsebenzi,  the Communist paper, as an instrument for …

… Britain, France, Russia - in April 1917, and sent troops to reinforce the Western Front (see Map 1. In March, Germany, … five major offensives against Allied troops. Click to enlarge On 18 July, the day Mandela was born in the … German forces. By August, the German army was forced back to the Hindenberg line. By September, the Allied forces …

… in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to play the saxophone and the clarinet, and is said to have had a big showman personality as he was loved by many … and followers. He became the first black South African to form and lead a full 14-piece band in the country. Mrwebi …