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BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… who were lecturing at Fort Hare. Gumede returned to Natal in 1936 where he was employed as a health assistant and sanitary inspector. In 1940, he began to…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… South Africa will always associate it with our struggle. To us, it is a battleground on which many battles have been … of the efforts of the peoples of…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… South Africa will always associate it with our struggle. To us, it is a battleground on which many battles have been … of the efforts of the peoples of…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
… with experienced photojournalists. "Photography allows me to tell stories with pictures. I live to tell stories. That's what I have been doing as a ……
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
… house arrest. In 1967, Pillay became the first Black woman to open her own law practice in Natal. She provided legal … she represented Phyllis Naidoo who was…
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… taking place within an international context of transition to the Socialist system, of the breakdown of the colonial … their brothers and their own…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… family with a lineage of lightning doctors. He was unable to attend school as he carried medicine bags for his father who trained him how to protect people’s…
BiographyTu Nokwe
… and other functions he would encourage his daughters to perform with him. All the children in the Nokwe household were taught how to sing by their mother and…
BiographyLulu Dube
… was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele Dube and Angeline (neè Khumalo) Dube … attended. The school started from first…
ArchiveFactory wage talks in paper industry
… pulp and paper industrial council, employers have agreed to refer the wage negotiations back to factory level in an attempt to break their deadlock with …
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
… School in Pretoria in 1958 and was awarded a bursary to study commerce for a Commerce degree at the University of … (PAC) for the Western Cape, he dropped…
BiographyPatricia De Lille
… was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven … her way up as SACWU's regional secretary. She then…
BiographyPieter Arnoldus Beyleveld
… War II, when many of his neighbours were violently opposed to South African participation in the war against Hitler. … a time of active service in the field…
BiographyGill Marcus
… Gill Marcus was born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National … School for Girls. Her parents,both accountants who…
BiographyMichael Hathorn
… Pietermaritzburg, Natal in 1922. After schooling, he went to Wits University in Johannesburg, and qualified with a BSc … a medical Student at Wits, and…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… member of the struggle against the apartheid government to which resulted in him being exiled from South Africa. He … cell in Swaziland . Ntuli was released…
BiographyFeroza Adam
… of the Transvaal Indian Congress . She was elected on to the executive committees of the Azanian Student’s … the unbanning of the African National C, she was…
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
… where she obtained her MB ChB in 1935. In 1936, Kok went to work at the chief mission station of the Dutch Reformed … with leprosy patients for the first…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
… in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the … es Salaam on 28 February 1961.In 1962,…
BiographyHenry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
… showed such promise that the missionaries arranged for him to board in Durban so that he could further his education. He began submitting his writings to…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
… boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and eventually became a music teacher. In … He was on the forefront of the…
BiographyAllister Sparks
… Allister Sparks was born to Harold Sparks and Bernice Stephen on 10 March 1933 in … Representative, the local town’s weekly newspaper. He left to pursue his…
BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
… 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom Stanton CR, in South Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Cape Town . There she joined the Modern Youth Society … groups as well as a night school for Africans. In…
BiographyLetsau Nelson Diale
… police beat him brutally and he was imprisoned. This was to be the beginning of similar brutal treatment that he was to suffer at the hands of the police…
BiographyJob Patja Kekana
… the carving centre was closed unexpectedly. Kekana moved to Johannesburg , where he struggled to sell his work. After five years in the city, he accepted an…
BiographyFrederick Hutchinson Page
… Page is best-known for his eerie images which, according to one critic, have made him known as ‘a kind of Hitchcock … The artist often claimed that he…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
… his work, he was raided by the security police, subjected to banning orders restricting his movement and was placed in … effects of the bomb blast, he…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
… King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape ) to Wilmot Goso and Nobantu Ntebe. After completing her primary education at Tamara, she went to…
Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
… parted when she was about six years old and she went to live with a maternal uncle, Ben Sedibe, in Barberton . Her … she was distributing ANC leaflets and…