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APDUSA Views - Issue No. 56: Save the Children of Our Nation!, 16 December 2002
BiographyFreda Levson
Freda Levson was born on 21 November 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her father was a prominent physician in Johannesburg. She was educated in England from the…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
Reginald September was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter. He first attended…
SA gains 180 medals during the 7th All Africa Games that ends in Johannesburg; followed by Egypt with 156 and Nigeria with 128.
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographySadie Forman
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights, Sadie Forman (nee Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish…
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing primary school he worked as a domestic worker in…
Adriaan van Jaarsveld (56), Eastern Cape resistance leader, dies as prisoner in the Cape Castle.
Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos (56), politician and SA Minister of Justice, dies in Pretoria.
Minutes of the National Union of South African Students 56th Annual Congress, held at the University of Cape Town, 24th - 30th November 1978
Minutes of the National Union of South African Students 56th Annual Congress, held at the University of Cape Town, 24th - 30th November 1978.
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and…
Gerald Edward (Boysie) Bond (56), SA cricket player in one test (1938-1939), dies in Cape Town.
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell (56), SA poet and writer, is killed in a car accident in Portugal
The Special Committee against Apartheid held two-day consultations with 56 participants from non-governmental organisations and
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes…
BiographyFred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine…
Document 56 - Thomas Ngwenya, “What are the National Groups in South Africa?” Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
Statement at the Debate of the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 10 November 2001
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the…
More than 120 people are killed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou
More than 120 people are killed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou
BiographyRichard Feetham
Richard Feetham was born on 22 November 1874, Penrhos Monmouthshire, England. His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
BiographyJohn Collins
John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
Nokukhanya Luthuli, maiden name Bhengu, (also known as MaBhengu) was the wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli. Although she never became as public a figure as her…