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BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
Haile Selassi I emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), is born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Goro in the Harar provin
… Haile Selassi I emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), is born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of …
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Pixley kaIsaka Seme, Isaac Seme), barrister and president of the ANC from 1930 to 1936, is born at a miss
… Seme, Isaac Seme), barrister and president of the ANC from 1930 to 1936, is born at a miss …
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop of…
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown…
BiographyPaul Herman Robinson
… Court School of Process Engravings and returned to SA in 1930 and received further training in printing at The Natal …
BiographySam Kahn
… representative in Parliament. After joining the CPSA in 1930, he organized several Coloured trade unions and in 1935 …
BiographyRichard Feetham
… Bench of the Transvaal Division of the Supreme Court. In 1930 he was appointed Judge President of the Natal Provincial … (1926), the Shanghai Municipal…
Maggie Smith
… Maggie Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news …
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
… a picture" (The Cape, 18.12.31). Flowers on a Window Sill (1930), with its flattened areas of colour, would have …
BiographyHermanus Lethebe
… any meeting, etc. the Bill was eventually passed in May 1930. As a result, huge demonstrations against the Act were …
BiographyC. S. Ramohanoe
C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal African National Congress (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…
ArchiveJosie Mpama and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1930-1948 by Robert Edgar
… Josie Mpama and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1930-1948 by Robert Edgar …
BiographyNell Kaye
Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…
BiographyElliot Tonjeni
… particularly in die rural areas of the western Cape. In 1930 he supported J. T. Gumede's unsuccessful bid for …
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
… Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After …
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade unionist, and…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… notably the Bloemfontein National Congress in April 1930, and Moerane and Ngubane’s launch of the National Union …
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyWilliam George Ballinger
… and was unable to reconcile its hostile factions. In 1930-1931 he was a delegate of the ICU to the Non-European …
BiographyCharles Templeman Loram
… to Natal as the provincial superintendent of education in 1930. Loram's view of African development was gradualistic …
BiographyT W Thibedi
… "Native Republic" slogan ”” was expelled from the party in 1930 on the grounds that he had mismanaged union funds. …
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
… Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. …
“The most patient of animals, next to the ass:” Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930 by Robert Edgara and Myra Ann Houser
… Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930 by Robert Edgara and Myra Ann Houser …
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed …
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… prevailed.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1930 and in the same year was elected provincial president …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
BiographyArthur Butelezi
… Pretoria where painting was included in the curriculum. In 1930 he was working in a sweet factory in Durban. Later he …