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… 1963 Madibane High School). After leaving school he went to work for  Drum , initially as switchboard operator, but … in the Vaal River area and made a substantial contribution to the recruitment of members and the revival of PAC branches … Sasolburg and Carletonville. In 1960 Sibeko returned to Drum as columnist, also reporting for Post (Golden City …

… Epidemic of 1918 when she met Eleanor Comber. Comber came to South Africa to work among the blind. To combat the high level of illiteracy she taught braille and …

… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). In time, he was to disown his father and three siblings, finding he had … editor of the magazine Libertas. He returned briefly to the Mail before joining the Johannesburg Sunday Times as … critic. His reviews were not well received and he moved to politics. He worked from Cape Town as political editor. He …

… aged 82, was among those who were arrested and taken to the town square. There the old man collapsed and Adelaide had to sit with him until he regained consciousness. The way the … pushed him around and called him 'boy' made her swear to fight them till the end. This was in 1939 and at the time …

… her early childhood. At an early age she was confined to a wheelchair after an illness and for a time, doctors … and her sister Cynthia hiked 400 km from their home to the Johannesburg township of Evaton to seek work. In 1986 Rebecca entered the ‘Shell Road to …

… was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, but left in the 1930s due to the persecution of Jews. Plaut schooled at Saint Georges … from the University of the Witwatersrand, before going on to complete an MA degree at the University of Warwick, … of the National Union of Students (NUSAS) which led to the resurgence of trade unions and ultimately Congress of …

… Technical College in Johannesburg, Murray was apprenticed to the engineering firm of Wright, Boag and Company Limited … He served the union in many capacities and was elected to its executive committee in 1946. He became President in … of Merit in 1967. Murray's negotiating skills enabled him to help improve the wages and working conditions for mining …

… Cape Town. The Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC) sought to fight for the rights of migrant workers, some of whom had … Part y  (SACP). Toivo Ya Toivo was deported to Namibia for sending a tape to Mburumba Kerina and Rev. Michael Scott who were …

… of December we reached 10 million page views. It is nice to know that we are making a difference in classrooms and … this past year and have a dedicated team who is pushing to give the most accurate and relevant history and to grow … re-integration. SEPTEMBER - 12th: President Zuma pays back the money he owes on the Nklandla upgrades. He claims …

… business.He attended high school in Kroonstad ,then moved to Johannesburg in the mid1940s,living in Alexander and later … late 1983,then as head of the ANC's Paris office from 1988 to 1991. In 1987 he survived  a kidnapping attempt in Britain.Khunyeli appears to have been tricked in the mid-1980s into unwittingly …

… He attended Penyang Primary School and was forced to quit at grade six due to financial constraints.  At the age of seven, Lehupela had … with making sculpture through clay. His imminent rose to fame came through a meeting with Father Frans Claerhout in …

… Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was arrested with connection to riots in the Odendaalrus area.The police stated that he had lost consciousness at the police station due to an epileptic fit, hereafter he was admitted to Pelonomi …

… (CPSA) .  In 1953, at the age of 16, Dinat left school to work in a family-owned bicycle store in Rustenburg. In the … while Essop Pahad was Minister in the Presidency from 1999 to September 2008. In November of 1963 Dinat married a fellow activist, Ramnie, daughter to Ama and Naran Naidoo. Ramnie had worked in the Transvaal …

… Commission together with four other photographers to document the first democratic elections in South Africa. … These pictures were published in a book entitled An End to Waiting . She was picture editor/photographer for The … commissioned by OXFAM UK and Frances Lincoln Publishers to take the photographs for a children's' counting book, …

… Festival and his remaining October shows, taking time out to deal with serious health issues, fans were forced to return to his recorded opus for reminders of his unique … aspects of Sixties counterculture. He dated his addiction back to the alcohol-focused social climate of his early …

… at the Johannesburg Joy of Jazz Festival, taking time out to deal with his serious health issues, fans were forced to return to his recorded opus for reminders of his unique … aspects of Sixties counterculture. He dated his addiction back to the alcohol-focused social climate of his early …

… of the same name at Crown Mines.) Nokwe then proceeded to the South African Native College (University of Fort Hare) … of a CYL branch at Fort Hare and, after his return to the Transvaal, he remained an active CYL member, becoming … and a youth congress respectively. After his return to South Africa he openly associated with the left wing of …

… Party (SACP). Her first job was working as an assistant to Helen Joseph in the Transvaal clothing industry medical … hidden in the collar of his shirts, which she was allowed to take home and launder. However, her husband did not escape … prison bars. A warder, Johannes Greeff, was bribed to buy freedom for Harold and the three others – Arthur …

… ( Gauteng ). She grew up in Sophiatown . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for White students. She later went to study at Pius the XII University (now University of …

… farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's second-in-command in the Natal African … the government issued a banning order restricting him to the Ixopo district. As a first-string accused in the … most of the next five years in the Transvaal, commuting to see his patients on weekends whenever he could. His …

… when he joined  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) . Chabane also went to Angola for military training in 1980, and began work … arrested by the Security Police in 1984, and was sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of terrorism. He was … while in prison, where he learnt music theory and how to play the harmonica from Bafana Sithole. After his release, …

… life in Centecow. Kohler used some of these drawings to illustrate his ethnographic and medical publications. In … Mariannhill where he was commissioned by Bishop Fleischer to paint a number of pictures with religious themes. From 1934 to 1937 he attended Edendale Training College under the …

… a woman is only one aspect of who I am.” This aversion to being strictly categorized or placed into a specific box … complex layers of Searle’s work; characterised by a desire to belong, yet not to be reduced to simply one thing or another. She is …

… Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He went to Waterkloof Primary School and then attended Pretoria Boys … of opposition’ campaign in the same year, which aimed to educate White students on resistance to Apartheid. As a result of his political activities, the …

… Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg and while there she met members of the … a hub of anti-apartheid and trade union activity from 1940 to 1966. Her home was an accessible site as she lived in an …

… Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew up and spent his … School where he passed his standard six and then proceeded to Healdtown Boarding School where he matriculated. …

… initially into business as an accountant, he later changed to law and served his articles in Durban with J.N. Singh. In … Jordan Ngubane and others in the Natal League, he helped to undermined the position of the conservative A.W.G. Champion and to promote the political career of Albert Luthuli , first as …

… the Weinberg family made a significant contribution to the building of non-racial democracy in South Africa. In 1929, Weinberg’s father came to South Africa from Latvia, after the First World War and … joined the Communist Party of South Africa and from 1933 to 1953 he was active in the trade union movement in Cape …

… meeting, Ramgobin tabled a motion for the organisation to elect Chief Albert Luthuli as Honorary President of NUSAS. … site of political cultural activity and a monument to the teachings of Gandhi.  As secretary of the Phoenix … the call for the release of all political prisoners to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the apartheid …

… July Ngalo, Johannes (26)   Parys Found dead in cell due to serious internal injuries.   29 September     Sebokeng … 85 Korotsoane, Tatlheho (28)   Vereeniging Reported to have been in security detention, but police denied this. … scuffle while post-mortem indicated victim shot in the back at 'point-blank' range.   24 July Mntonga, Eric …