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… fair play had repeatedly been shaken, he had already come to the realisation, where many of his fellow-leaders had not, … with much favour in the British Empire”.358 Gumede arrived back in South Africa at the beginning of April 1921.359 One … leader of the ICU, who had led some 400 dock workers on a strike at Cape Town harbour in December 1919, was starting to …

… in South Africa  with his father in 1902. He returned to study in London in 1911. Upon his return he briefly stayed in Natal before moving to the Eastern Cape where h e initially obtained work as a … farming, but a crash in the in ndustry in 1914 forced him to consider earning a living from his art. In 1915 he married …

…  because of his political activism, and left the country to go into exile in Lesotho in 1980, where he completed his … in Political Science and Economics at NUL, he left to pursue a Master of Arts degree in Development Economics at … Political and professional appointments Mboweni returned to South Africa in the 1990s and was the was Deputy Head of …

… of Pretoria. From a young age, he had aspirations to join the military and in 1973 he was appointed as chief of … the South African Defense Force, becoming the youngest man to hold both positions. In 1980 he became the Defence … for being a military technocrat, who was unafraid to quash political dissent with violence. He famously viewed …

… with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be shattered by the declaration of her beloved birth-place … black performers found it increasingly difficult to earn an income, or to maintain a sense of dignity in the face of overt racism. …

… territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against the British. He led the commando that … became commandant-general of the Transvaal and managed to crush the Jameson Raid in January 1896. He died soon after besieging Ladysmith, which proved to be disasterous, as opposed to what his younger generals …

… 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to 1957. Between 1959 and 1966 he taught art at schools in KwaZulu Natal. From 1961 to 1979 he was  the founder, owner and Director of the …

… Pinelands. He attended Kearsney College, Natal from 1972 to 1974, and the Diocesan College (Bishops) from 1975 to 1976.In the 1980s he became the underground member of the … weeks in solitary confinement and questioned taking a trip to Lesotho.  In 1981 he got re-elected after being banned  …

… Attorney General by  Cecil John Rhodes , but was forced to resign after the failed  Jameson Raid  in 1896. He returned to Parliament in 1898 and became Prime Minister of the Cape … he summarised the pressure his government has been brought to bear on the Zuid Afrikaansche Republic (ZAR), or …

… and Ulla Gowenius, Swedish Missionaries who had been sent to South Africa to start a weaving workshop. She also assisted them as an … formal studies.  The following year, when the Centre moved to Rorke's Drift, Ndebele continued her studies there. In …

… in Pretoria . He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial … months as a visiting student. In 1975 Ledochowski returned to South Africa to undergo conscription in the South African Defence Force. …

… without receiving a degree. In 1948, she moved to Johannesburg where she lived most of her life. Gordimer … and early 20th-century fiction, and later would continue to cite the Russians in particular (Tolstoy, Turgenev and … and published her first collection of short stories, Face to Face in that same year. In 1951, the New Yorker (New York, …

… South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s … for two years as an articled clerk and was admitted to the Bar as an advocate of the Supreme Court of South … for the South African Armed Forces and was assigned to the Air Force Intelligence and dispatched to Nairobi, …

… drafting of the  Freedom Charter . However, he was unable to attend the meeting in Kliptown as he was under banning … period, he undertook political work underground. From 1954 to 1956, while he was banned, Matthews completed his LLB … with JH Spilkin, attorneys in Port Elizabeth, from 1957 to 1958. Matthews and his father, Prof. ZK Matthews, were …

… factory as a machine operator in Port Elizabeth from 1965 to 1968. He then left to study at the University of Fort Hare an obtained a … time at Fort Hare, he was accredited as a chaplain to students of various denominations. During this period he …

… schooling at New castle Intermediary. In 1920 he started to train as a teacher at Milton school in Alcockspruit, going on to qualify as a teacher at St Chad's College in Ladysmith in … of the Anglican Church. In December 1940 he was ordained to the ministry as deacon. Later he was appointed assistant …

… about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her … that she is also the author of two prose contributions to the King William's Town newspaper Imvo zabantsundu on 20 … Batho , for bragging that he had brought her from Peddie to Johannesburg, so she seems to have lived near Peddie, …

… KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He was forced to go to work at an early age when his father’s business collapsed in 1930. Meer  moved to Durban to work for an older brother who made shirts,and to …

… one child with is wife, Josephine, nee van Zyl. He went to the local primary school and matriculated from Ladybrand … practising at the Side Bar for 17 years. From 1962 to 1968 Coetsee volunteered himself for military service in … armoured car section, even though he had not been selected to do so. Coetsee came from a politically aware family with …

… at the Wesleyan Methodist Primary School and from 1886 to 1888 at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school … he continued studying and in 1892 became the first African to pass the Cape Civil Service Examination, passing … facilities and musical groups. On occasion he also had to interpret for dignitaries such as the Earl of Athlone and …

… was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange River, attending Neilerdrift Primary School and … of Pretoria in 1962. Vlok was appointed private secretary to Pelser, Minister of Justice, a post he held for four …

… mother.  When she was three years old, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), then a British colony, … laws and published the first photograph of Robert Mugabe to appear in Rhodesia on the front cover. She quickly moved from local magazine journalism to reporting for international newspapers, and was in …

… government’s policy of forced removals soon compelled them to resettle in Noordgesig, a designated Coloured area … active in the ANC until it was banned and continued to work with its support structures. Smith also served on the … hiding leaders of the uprising. Her activism brought her to the attention of the security police who acted against her …

… South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from Eastern Europe who had come to South Africa to escape the restrictions imposed on Jews by Russia. She was … M. (2004) Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa . HSRC Press: Cape Town, …

… Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where … Kumalo herded cattle. Though forbidden by his parents to play with the local boys, Kumalo secretly did and so came … and then at school at Edendale. In 1891 he was admitted to the Nuttall Training Institution where he completed …

… University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due to lack of funds, converted his studies to a chemistry degree at the same institution, where he … completing his studies. His first business enterprise was to set up a dry cleaning shop. During the depression Rupert …

… served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his connection with then editor Jim Bailey, Sampson became … Mandela , and writers like Nadine Gordimer. On his return to Britain he joined the editorial staff of The Observer , … A Venture Into The New Africa (1956). Sampson went on to write several other books about South Africa, including …

… the local school where he completed Standard Five,moved to Cape Town where he worked in various semi-skilled jobs.First drawn to politics in 1952 after hearing a speech  by Cissie Gool … in 1957.A period in the early 1960s he was subjected to 6p.m to 6a.m house arrest.After being fired for staying …

… moulding clay as a child, and at around age fifteen began to teach himself how to carve. He sold his pieces to supplement his family’s income, but did not make art his …

… of Zulu Poetry, Both Traditional and Modern".He went to England on a scholarship from Christian Action in … passport. After a brief stint in Lesotho, Kunene travelled to Britain planning to do his doctorate but events overtook that ambition and he …