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… community and our friends abroad, Comrades, I should like to be as brief in what I have to say as is my visit to … next year? In a way, it is a great inspiration to come back to Mazimbu, come back to SOMAFCO, to see the buildings, … at home, schools are getting closed, students are going on strike. They are fighting on the academic front against one …

… community and our friends abroad, Comrades, I should like to be as brief in what I have to say as is my visit to … next year? In a way, it is a great inspiration to come back to Mazimbu, come back to SOMAFCO, to see the buildings, … at home, schools are getting closed, students are going on strike. They are fighting on the academic front against one …

… mother, who was expecting her second child. They returned to Limpopo where his brother was also born. Mafela’s family moved to Kliptown, south of Johannesburg in 1947. The family … remained in Kliptown for five years. In 1952 they moved to White City Jabavu, a township that was conceived as a …

… Moodley. SM:   Thank you. VR:   Mr Moodley, we would like to go back a little, talk about your days as a young child. The …       spoon ‑ you know, onto a toilet paper and you    strike the flint and the flint catches alight, because        …

… started primary schooling in the Villageboard and went on to attend the Saint Patrick Catholic School in the North-end Port Elizabeth . When her father joined the army to fight in World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances Elizabeth moved out of the family house with the children to a new housing development, specifically built for …

… a clothing factory, and worked part-time as a dressmaker to supplement her income. She joined the Progressive Garment … of the South African Trade Unions (SACTU), in opposition to the then conservative Garment Workers' Union. Elsie met … and charged with treason and sabotage. He was sentenced to 20 years on Robben Island in 1964, along with former …

… When the group disbanded only a year later she went on to lead the rock band Hotline . The band lasted for seven … biggest hits of the 1980s. The band crossed over from rock to Afro-pop in 1983 which expanded their audience to include black people. It was the popularity of their music …

… Party  (NP), and Member of Parliament for Vasco from 1953 to 1961. The De Villiers family moved to Caledon and after his first year of schooling they moved to Bellville. He matriculated from Bellville High School in …

… up in rural South Africa. Tamana and her four sisters had to help work on their father’s plot, before and after school, … keeping some livestock. Every Saturday the girls would go to Idutywa, the nearest town, to sell their produce to make “money so that we could buy …

… "Around the World in 80 Days-the India Section" is about to be published by UNISA Press. His poems have been … Greek, Turkish, Urdu and Hindi and many have been set to music. Before his appointment as a professor at UCT he had … Durban where he, his colleagues and collaborators were key to the anti-apartheid and transformation processes which have …

… studied at Stellenbosch University where he is reputed to have been a ladies’ man, a socialite and-rebel. It is … Nationalist Party since 1957, and rose through the ranks to become one of its distinguished parliamentarians. Little … that he did not make a remarkable impression. Momberg was to become more visible in the late 1970s and through to his …

… The 1960s forced removals saw his family relocating to  Diepkloof in Soweto where subsequently attended Orlando … the 1960s. In October 1968, he was arrested and sentenced to 14 days hard labour for failing to show the security police a “dompass” on the eve of his …

… In the 1970s, his brother studying at university took him to the  South African Students Organisation  (SASO) meetings. Here he listened to people like  Steve Biko  and Barney Pityana and their … He later enrolled at the  University of Durban-Westville  to study science, where he also joined SASO. His studies …

… (Greenberg)[i] and has taught five of her daughters to make pottery, Bongi Nala (eldest, age 40), Jabulani (Jabu) … pot and shards (AD 600-800) while ploughing his fields to plant potatoes (personal communication). Woolmore took his findings to the Natal University where after Leonard van Skalkwyk, an …

… was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He … for the Daily Dispatch in East London.  In 1977, he went to Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) where he worked as a … and photographer for the Rhodesian Herald. On returning to South Africa in 1979 with his wife and young son, Mclennan …

… The group received airplay on Radio Zulu, which led to a recording contract with Gallo Records in 1970. Initially … of traditional folk songs, but when Joseph converted to Christianity in the mid-1970's the group shifted their focus to gospel music. The group achieved international fame when …

… Secondary School, Nko was at the forefront in the struggle to get the Students Representative Council established and … a position that he reluctantly accepted, as he wanted to focus on the establishment of more progressive structures … (KERIC) was established. This project found it difficult to take off the ground. In 1993, Mbuyabo was deployed, …

… identification of the sitter as a Xhosa male impossible to determine. Several monochromatic watercolours in sepia are … techniques ranging from pale washes in the background to darker ones in the wet-in-wet dilineation of facial details. Contrasted to this is the use of a dry-brush technique to articulate the …

… aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at the Johannesburg Fort after … magistrate,that 40 awaiting-trial prisoners were taken to the Fort from Johannesburg courts on 4th October.He said … that on 5th October he was told that a prisoner had tried to hang himself in his cell 'for his own safety' and the belt …

… in a Japanese concentration camp as a child before moving to South Africa.He attended Durban High School,graduated from … against his banning order, he was given permission to continue his academic duties. He was banned from 16 … a statement unreservedly withdrawing remarks understood to mean that the banned people were engaged in activities …

… Africa, the world track and field establishment refused to recognise the record. However, she was later to claim the world record officially, while representing … 3,000m race, Budd and Mary Decker , the American favourite to win, accidentally collided. Budd eventually finished …

… studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 with her husband, Dr Hobart Kay, finally … also joined SASA in early 1919, and sent five paintings to the SASA Annual Exhibition. One of them was Marjorie aged … portrait of her daughter. In 1922, Kay sent a further work to Cape Town for the SASA list Annual Exhibition. This time, …

… Natal at his early teens and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior team in the early sixties. In 1967 he took a … South Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. In 1968 he performed in an … was recognised as the best-ever player of his generation to have graced the playing fields. During a provincial match …

… For instance, in 1990 she took a group of young musicians to the International Children’s Jazz Festival in Canada. On … Educational Opportunities Council, and subsequently went to study at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  She used this opportunity to polish her skills in music and theater. Upon her return, …

… against apartheid for more than three decades, rising to prominence - including membership of the cabinet and … School in Cape Town where many of his teachers belonged to the Non-European Unity Movement.After earning a bachelor's … Leon.He became the new party's chairperson and was elected to the Colored Persons' Representative Council (CRC),a …

… of Cape provincial secretary and was formally elected to that office in 1955. By this time he was a Queenstown … earlier he had been endorsed out of Queenstown and forced to return to Tembuland, where he began to explore the possibilities of … From Protest to Challenge, Political Profile Volume 4, p160 …

… 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest … Certificate with distinction. Mangena then proceeded to study for his secondary education at the Hebron Training … Organisation (SASO). At the end of 1971 he was forced to discontinue his studies at the university due to his …

… were interrupted when Chief Ofentse Pilane requested him to start a secondary school for his tribe at Moruleng and … of the Ofentse Tribal School at Moruleng. He was promoted to the rank of supervisor of schools in the Potchefstroom … as lecturer in Tswana, Southern and Northern Sotho to the newly established University College of the North …

… and mobilizing leftwing white people who were opposed to apartheid, and also in collecting information of trade … and community organisations. She relayed this information to ANC contacts in Botswana thus keeping the movement in … that she was involved in any violent activity which sought to overthrow the government, she was found guilty of treason …

… South African society. In that novel, Joubert chose to portray South Africa in a poignant yet honest manner. The … into supporting Apartheid. This novel lifted the veil to reveal the essential truth of the Apartheid tragedy, and … and internationally recognized for her contribution to South African, and especially Afrikaans, literature. She …