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… some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affirm the very humanity of the oppressed. The act of … These words, written more than a century and half ago, strike a resonant chord in our hearts because they describe … state of siege. The Republic of Seychelles has had to beat back an open act of invasion. Countries such as Mozambique, …

… the boys on the potato farms at Bethel, how they used to take the boys for the pass offences and so on. If a boy … not have his pass the police would arrest him and take him to a farm and make him work there. At the farm they take his … not enough implements to go round, and they used to come back from Bethel with their fingers bleeding and so forth. …

… Zimbabweans, The people of this country are not strangers to the graveside. They have even known mass graves. In their … ready to tear asunder the bonds of colonialism which still bound it. He has matured in that struggle. During these past … brought him up to 1975 when he completed his sentence. Back in Soweto he was again involved in underground …

… volunteered as an escort on a ship taking evacuee children to South Africa. In the early 1950s, she married the Russian … devoted supporters of Michael Scott, who first brought to the world’s conscience, through his petitioning at the UN … a book entitled In Face of Fear: Michael Scott’s Challenge to South Africa in London in 1950. Her dedication in her …

… where he worked for five years, rising through the ranks to become company manager. He left to join Leonard Schach Productions. He worked for two years … Civic Theatre in Johannesburg when it opened, then moved to Theatre International for some years, eventually joining …

… at the Mpumalanga Teachers Training College, from 1980 to 1981 and taught at Ohlange High School from 1981 to 1983. Mlambo-Ngcuka obtained qualifications in Gender … literacy and rural development, and in university outreach to marginal communities. Between 1993 and 1994, Mlambo-Ngcuka …

… died on 1 May 1985 when his car overturned while driving to Lusaka.  Fezekile claimed to have been abused and raped by ANC members starting at the … when she was in Swaziland . While this claim never went to a court of law it is alleged that two ANC members were …

… Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town , Western Cape Province.  After school, he … an artists’ collective that worked in communities to promote cultural activities.  Lombard’s photographs were … alternative press, such as Grassroots. He also contributed to various group exhibitions in Southern Africa, including at …

… at the Lovedale College. Upon his completion he went to attend a teachers college. Sebe had a love for different … at college. King Williams Towncircuit. He also managed to complete a diploma in agriculture. Sebe became an advisor to the Paramount Chief Bazindlo Sandile. In 1968 he assumed …

… into power. From an early age, Kies knew that she wanted to become a teacher, thus this fulfilled her childhood dream. … and other political activities. His firing prompted Helen to return to teaching after a four year break, and in 1957 she began …

… of Cape Town but did not finish his studies, dropping out to travel in Africa and the world. He found work on a ship, … He found a job as a court clerk and through this was able to witness the destruction on humans by the apartheid system. … rejected segregation in South African theatres. This led to most of his works being banned by the government. In 1958, …

… of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the various art societies in SA into a single academy. His efforts were untiring but they came to nothing. His death in 1938 marked the end of one era and … and studied painting in Rome and London. He first came to SA in 1891 on the advice of Cecil Rhodes, but left in …

… de Klerk and Aletta Johannes van Rooy. De Klerk went to school at Potchefstroom and from 1923 to 1926 studied at the Potchefstroom University College for … He was actively involved in student politics. From 1925 to 1926 De Klerk was chairman of the Students’ Representative …

… toured in Britain, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. From 1955 to 1958 he taught at the independent Central Indian High … committee in the mid-1950s. Hutchinson was elected to the ANC executive committee in December 1952 and remained … acquittal he left South Africa without a passport and went to Ghana, where he taught for some years at Accra University …

… and later as a factory worker. In the late 1940s he helped to organise the African Food and Canning Workers' Union and … of the Cape ANC in a disputed election. He was subject to bans from 1954 into the 1960s and was detained during the … 1980 during which two whites were killed. He was sentenced to five years in prison. While he was making an unsuccessful …

… in 1953, he taught briefly in the Free State, then moved to Johannesburg and took up law studies. He joined the circle … when the  PAC  was formed in 1959. He had meanwhile moved to Evaton, near Vereeniging and Sharpeville, and when the Pan … Leaders but later withdrew his support from efforts to organise a follow-up conference in 1961. Delegated by …

… of the national ANC. In 1947 he traveled to Dakar with  J. B. Marks  to attend an All-African Trader Union Conference sponsored by … of the ANC in December 1949. He was elected instead to the ANC's national executive committee, and in that …

… significant in his life particularly since he was forced to change schools. The family moved to Primose Park near Mannenberg were they were resettled. In … a teaching position at Spine Road High School. From 1991 to 1994 he was Assistant to the Rector of the University of …

… in  1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the … by literature from a very young age. van Wyk rose to fame in the 1970s for his writing. He worked as an editor … at Ravan Press, the publisher of dissident voices opposed to apartheid . In 1979, he published one of the most-quoted …

… and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to his last day. He threw himself into the work of linking … , Wilton Mkwayi and Dennis Goldberg he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial by the apartheid … in 1987, he was immediately part of the people's struggles to defeat the apartheid regime by contributing to the …

… removed in terms of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her family. During the next several years, … decreed that classes throughout South Africa were to be conducted in Afrikaans. With several of her classmates, she sought military training in order to resist this legislation, but plans failed when one of the …

… the most English of painting mediums. He first came to SA as an opera singer, and settled in Fish Hoek. Between … Namibia and the main theatre of the War in Europe. Prior to his departure to war in 1917, he showed six works on that year's SASA …

… du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of … of the Students’ Representative Council, which enabled him to travel abroad to Holland, Germany and Belgium and meet with other student …

… 18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 … located in the western shadow of the Meuse river, close to the German-French border. It was of great symbolic … and November. By October the French succeed in pushing back the Germans. Verdun is considered the bloodiest …

… of Art, University of Cape Town in 1977 and then went to the USA where he obtained his MA graduate degree in art … African National Gallery (SANG). Emile left SANG in 2000 to take up a position with Heritage Agency where he worked on … including an exhibition for the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island, the Alexandra Renewal Project, and the …

… and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came to Cape Town as a labourer, worked as a garage attendant, and … In 1953 he spent six months in Europe as a delegate to the World Youth Festival and a congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions. After his return to South Africa he was elected to the Cape provincial …

… the court of the Gcaleka paramount chief, he was elected to the district council of Idutywa, and later, at the age of 29, he was appointed to the Transkeian Territories General Council. An eloquent … Territorial Authority but was defeated for election to the Transkeian Legislative Assembly in 1963. A …

… Coloured Advisory Council.Gow was sent after high school to the United State were he earned degrees at Wilberforce and … army in World War One and fought inFrance,then returned to the U.Sand taught music at Tuskegee Institute until 1925. On his return to South Africa,Gow was appointed headmaster of Wilberforce …

… Durban's Arthur Blaxall School for the Blind from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he studied for a BA and from 1970 to 1972, completed an LLB at the University College, Durban …

… as Ismail Mohamed, the name on his birth certificate and to his family and friends as Josef. Professor Mohamed’s mother worked for White families to earn a living and to ensure the young Mohamed could attend … car resented this. They tore up his books. He fought back. They accused him of causing trouble and he lost his …