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… on 10 May 1952 and attended school in Mgangatho from 1955 to 1961. He began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hiabisa … accompanied the Canadian priest Edwin Kinch when he moved to St Lucia, in Natal. He continued to carve there until 1973 when he went to Stanger. In 1975 he …

… (BPC). Through his writing, Shezi introduced his BCM ideas to a wider audience. His play titled Shanti. Received reviews … that he gave a detailed accounts of how he had come to the defence of a black woman who was being drenched with a hose pipe by her white boss. According to some reports, after an altercation, the man pushed Shezi …

… Court from 7 – 15 June 1978 and was charged with helping to produce and distribute pamphlets for the ANC and SACP. An … participated in ANC, SACP and MK activities. He was said to have helped in the production and distribution of 18 … pamphlets for banned organisations. He pleaded guilty to all charges and admitted to his involvement in the display …

… at the University of Fort Hare. In 1980 he was admitted to the legal profession as an Attorney. He began his active … the apartheid state. His crime was that he had refused to testify against some of the UDF members he had represented … and completed an LLB degree (legal degree). He went on to complete a Master of Arts degree in international …

… who were all financially dependent on him. According to his son, David Sagalala, "I want to see where my father died and how he died. I want those responsible for his death to be arrested and brought to justice because everyone who …

… of the June 26 protest, and in 1951 he was elected to head the Transvaal Youth League. In 1952 he was elected to the  African National Congress  (ANC) national executive committee but soon thereafter left the Transvaal to serve his internship in the Cape. In 1953 he was one of …

… others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola . The whole of … aim being reached in Angola in 1975, the committee decided to change its name and focus. The Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (KZA) was established in 1976, and decided to focus on the South African, Zimbabwean and Namibian …

… prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives' Representative Council in 1937. In 1939 he … Congress  (ANC) and Location Advisory Boards Congress to the minister of Native affairs, on which he took up the … case for the provision of better social welfare services to urban Africans. A member of the ANC's national executive …

… League and in 1947 was chosen as the league's delegate to a conference of the World Federation of Democratic Youth … National Congress  (ANC) presidency. He was elected to the ANC national executive committee in December 1949, but … cut short his political career a year later when he moved to Umtata to begin a law practice. …

… on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten) Nair, an engineer's … were arrested, and he was found guilty and sentenced to 1 month in prison. As the secretary of the Dairy Worker's … (SATWU Collection 1937-1978). In 1953 Nair was invited to join the secretly reconstituted South African Communist …

… his LLB Cum Laude. Two years later he was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar.  A keen soccer player, he was a … African National Congress (ANC) leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment. As  founding member  and director of an organisation that sought to pursue justice and human rights in South Africa, the Legal …

… from the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) as he was opposed to their compliance with the apartheid system. He joined and … he received a 15 year sentence while Jansie was sentenced to four years in prison. Jansie served her full sentence and … ANC's National Conference in Bloemfontein (December 1994) to the National Executive Committee of the ANC. He also …

… Art Collection. He was one of the most exciting artists to have emerged through the community arts sector in the … expressionistic, comic, and iconic) with vivid allusions to imperialism, oppression and resistance. Similarly, African … exploitation. African Madonna is a direct reference to Nonqawuse, the young girl whose prophecies led directly to …

… Affairs on 1 August 1994, after which he was posted to various African, European and American countries on South … Embassy in Paris until November 1996, when he was sent to Senegal as ambassador. While serving in that position, Makhaya was also non-resident ambassador to Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Mauritania. …

… William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801, Bathurst became Lord of the Admirality from 1783 to 1789, Lord of the Treasury from 1789 to 1791 and a Commissioner on the Board of Control for India …

… When I returned to London after six weeks Esmé was not very pleased with me … green and crispy to the bite. The very thought took me back to my childhood and youth. The beautiful grapes on sale … and their wives who had shortly before ended a yearlong strike. During my after dinner address there was that …

… Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the … 1972 he studied at the Bill Ainslie Studios and traveled to France, England and Italy. He then worked for the SABC as a graphic artist. From 1970 to 1988 he exhibited repeatedly in SA, also in Sao Paulo, …

… in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu Methodist Church, of which he … Under Dube and Mtimkulu, the Natal Congress attempted to maintain a degree of independence from the national ANC. … Mtimkulu became embroiled in a political struggle that led to his defeat for the Natal presidency by A. W. G. Champion, …

… Zulu poet and wrote the first book of Zulu poems to be published. Some of the poems were traditional … Vilakazi became the first African in the Union to receive the degree of doctor of literature. He died on 26 … me where the grasses grow Below the weeping willow trees To let their branches shed upon me Leaves of varied greens. …

… From 1959-1970 Herbstein lived and traveled extensively to England, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Zambia, and finally Scotland. From 1963 to 1965 Herbstein was designing the bridge over the Barak … and during the 1960s he made regular monthly contributions to the ANC via an account in the name, O.R. Tambo and T.X. …

… a rich, land-owning family who gave much support and money to  Gandhi ’s resistance campaigns. Having fallen ill to malaria as a child, Sushila overdosed on quinine (a medication to treat malaria), which resulted in a slight impairment of …

… a fighter for freedom, Molokoane was scrupulously faithful to the ideals of the ANC and MK. Although he was gifted in many fields, he was always eager to learn through listening and debating. He was a disciplined … in Zeerust, Molokoane was shot in the leg but he managed to outmanoeuvre his opposition and complete the 200km retreat …

… information about enemy movements and relaying it to the APLA officers in exile. She served in this capacity … was equally concerned with the lot of workers, subjected to the harsh labour conditions under the apartheid system. … she formed part of the South African women’s delegation to the Beijing Conference. Nana Henrietta Moabi has, …

… Belgian painter Maurice van Essche who persuaded him to study in London. He studied in London and Paris and returned to South Africa in 1951 with a strong formalist grounding. … of Paris. His studies under Fernand Léger would prove to be important and influence his work at a later stage. …

… from malnutrition at a very young age. His mother resorted to running a shebeen in order to provide the family with livelihood means. Modisane wrote … children, a kind of insurance against poverty by trying to give me a prestige profession, and if necessary would go …

… for a surname. In all her correspondence she is referred to as 'Victoria Cobela'.) Mangena received her schooling at … profession which was about the only profession open to African youths at the time, she decided to become a nurse. She went to one of the few hospitals that …

… exhibiting their work in the Drill Hall will be interested to know what a veteran painter thinks of their work. Mr James Ford, who came to CapeTown from Kensington twenty-two years ago, to become first master of the School of Art, and who was …

… a trade unionist and a women's leader from the late 1940s to the 1980s. She moved in with a friend in Port Elizabeth … a canning factory. In 1948 when Ray Alexander Simons came to Port Elizabeth to expand the membership of the African Food and Canning … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele .From Protest to Challenge 4-Political Profiles (1882-1990) …

… European methods of farming and selling surplus produce to the market. In addition to participating in the colonial economy, they sought to use … matters such as the vote, although that interest went back as far as the 1860s. In the Eastern Cape, some Africans …

… Black Kei River near his home in Ntabelanga. He decided to call his followers “Israelites” as he identified with the … stopped working and ploughing their fields. Needless to say, the end did not come. Over the years Mgijima’s … that, as a representative of the government, he was duty-bound to arrest those men who had warrants against them; he …