SAHO global search

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… They proposed instead a consultative council consisting of about six or seven members who would advise the government on … to which he clung strongly. He…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… at the University of Nairobi had the following to say about him: At this time the South African exile community in …

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1905-1982

John Collins

… were busy introducing apartheid laws.  Always concerned about social issues, he was one of four founders of War on …

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1902-1996

Jane Gool

… related that the very presence of Jane and Goolam brought about an intense debate on how this body was to be named. …

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1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… were sentenced on 13 May 1963 to prison for ten years. About two hundred people waited outside the court in a …

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1936-2009

Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils

… particularly involved in preparing disguises for comrades about to be deployed into the underground. Eleanor also …

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1933

Mildred Lesiea

… house to meet with Black Sash women to educate them about the meaning of the pass laws. In 1962, she was elected …

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1905

Ray Harmel (nee Adler)

… at first in a so-called sweat-shop. The Depression was about to set in, and  for a long period, she and a fellow …

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1918-2002

Wolfie Kodesh

… messages and banned literature. Mandela later commented about Kodesh in his autobiography, “I fear that I took over …

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1912-2002

John Jack Curtis

… speak out even in his old age against the injustice he saw about him in world affairs. John (Jack) Curtis died on 24 …

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1928-2007

Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)

… ordinary family home. She did this over a period covering about forty years, which included the most trying times of …

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1909-2002

Leslie Rubin

… his death in 1950 and that the UP could not bring about liberal progress in South Africa, brought together …

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1921-2004

Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane

… what he claimed were ANC messages which instructed cadres about the formation of MK and their need to go further …

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1926-1996

Harold Wolpe

… Education Council, Wolpe was involved in intense debates about, and visits to, the ANC’s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom …

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1953-2014

Sally Gross

… between Gross and Home Affairs raised disturbing questions about South Africa’s gender-stereotyped society. Following …

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Zwelinzima Joseph Vavi

… the colleague tried to extort R 2 million to keep quiet about the incident. After the details were revealed, Vavi …

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1953

Diana Ferrus

… in 1998. Feeling incredibly homesick, she started thinking about how Baartman must have felt being in a foreign land far …

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Stephanie Urdang

… the regime, this was not easy for Urdang, who felt torn about her decision as she still yearned to stay in her home …

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1932-1968

Benson Tsele

… group off as they crossed the Zambezi for the first time. About 50 or so MK cadres mingled with roughly 30 guerrillas …

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1941-2021

Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane

… Premier, Dr Ngubane is recognised for his role in bringing about peace and helping to tame the political violence that …

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1945-2025

Theresa Solomon

… for her dedication to justice and activism, which brought about meaningful change, especially on the Cape Flats, where …

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1941-2023

Stephanie Kemp

… and worked as a community physiotherapist in Alexandra for about 7 years before moving to Durban where worked as a …

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1942

Terry Bell

… of the ANC in 1980).   Following serious disagreements about the deviation in practice from the proclaimed policies …

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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… me of the inner workings of the system, and his worries about slipping standards and ignored conventions. We spoke on … barriers and distance – and that was…

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1981

Julius Sello Malema

… Malema be elected to parliament: “Young Julius has views about females that should not just be restricted to … that different leaders within the ANC had made…

B-0067164

1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… of their time together was spent in serious discussion about the injustices around them, the way White people …

B-0068743

1826-1884

King Cetshwayo

… and he was forced to retreat. On his retreat he learned about the assassination of the King Shaka by  Dingaan , also … of an independent Zulu nation (1872…

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… the rendition of Asimbonanga, a song written by Johnny about Mandela during his period of incarceration (and other …

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1933

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

… and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997 to testify about PAC and APLA activities. In 2003 Mogoba resolved not to …

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1841-1926

John Xavier Merriman

… between the radicals and moderates in the Bond. He set about writing a tract against the Bond and ‘racialism’, by …

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