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… some foreign land as a "discovery" is because, according to the primitive 'finders keepers' rule, this lends support to any claim they make to "owning" the land. The Portuguese … trade, Da Gama sailed with a fleet from Portugal in 1502, bound for Mozambique and Sofala. There, he obtained some …

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later … Natal. The Batlokwa people fled taking along small tribes to Barolong in Kuruman, where they were stopped by the … Makitikiti was slain and he himself escaped with sixty men to Winburg. Sir George Clerk allowed him to live in the …

… Art Centre and later under George Boys who introduced him to the techniques of batik and mono printing. Around 1970 Hlatywayo travelled to Rhodesia and was given a studio in the Rhodes National … now the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare. He returned to Johannesburg periodically when Boys continued to provide …

… Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub that transforms to grassland in times of rain. As I drift into Philippolis, … you stray for work or play, its stars and spoeks draw you back. Before supper I head out to catch the last glimmers of …

… Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to Greenock where his father represented a Glasgow-based … of Glasgow. After two years there, he was appointed to teach English and Latin at the Kilsyth Academy. In the …

… in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the … formed the focus of his work. Eventually, Ngatane went on to teach at the centre. Figure 1: Old Orlando, 1969 Oil on … documentary realism. He developed an individual approach to the painting of township scenes using watercolour and …

… in Cradock. After his father was released, he returned to South Africa and became a Chaplain at St. Andrews College. … African Resistance Movement  (ARM), an organisation linked to the Liberal Party  (LP) that carried out sabotage … infrastructure. His association with ARM brought him to the attention of the security police who arrested and …

… third of eight children. At the age of 17, Motsoaledi came to Johannesburg. His first brush with the law in Johannesburg was his arrest for failure to produce his pass book – he was sentenced to work for a road construction. Later he found work in a …

… in watercolour. In 1970, he brought some of his paintings to the South African Association of Arts and attracted the … attention of the artist Helge Jensen who invited Maapola to enrol at the Art Design School in Pretoria . After his … a glimpse – a rather candid glimpse of the other side.’ To another critic of this era, Maapola’s drawings ‘are …

… their work conditions. In 1974, Boraine was elected to Parliament and served for twelve years as a Member of … for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) which tried to close the gaps within South African society. Boraine was … alongside Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu , from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 Boraine served as a Professor of Law at …

… GPO now stands. This was a window of a room once referred to as "the finest studio in South Africa" (The Cape Argus, … Goodman as a member and also three works that were sent to the Cape from London. A local report on the exhibition, … biographer Joyce Newton Thompson makes no reference at all to any of these SASA exhibitions in her listings (1951:127 …

… recognition in Europe as a sculptor before he took to the stage. He trained at the Theatre School in Antwerp. He … in quick-change impersonations, often changing parts up to six times in one performance. At the beginning of 1927, De … at the dangers of alcoholism). The couple returned to Belgium at the end of 1929, after a very successful visit …

… at Lovedale,then at Morija in Basutoland,where he learned to speak southern Sotho.When his father was unable to enroll him at awhite high school in King Willlams Town,he was sent to a Quaker high school in Colwyn Bay in Wales where he … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele .From Protest to Challenge 4-Political Profiles (1882-1990) …

… missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society to come to his kingdom, and so brought the Basotho in contact with Christianity. Moshoeshoe himself is said to have converted to the faith at the end of his life. From …

… Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief Montshioa of the Barolong boo Ratshidi in Mafikeng. … at Lovedale Institution , where he matriculated. Prior to this, he had spent some time in Kimberly where he was a teacher until 1914 when he moved to Europe. There he was admitted into the Medical School of …

… attending Fort Hare for some time, he left the university to seek work in Cape Town in 1931. He became employed as a … NEUM. In 1956, he received banning orders confining him to Cape Town for five years, during which time he wrote  … Democratic Union of Southern Africa, which was intended to be an individual-membership body affiliated to the AAC and …

… family was uprooted from Clairwood and they were forced to go live in Chatsworth, Durban — an area designated for … Rajgopaul was also a member of Afrapix.  He contributed to the Staffrider exhibitions of 1983, 1984, and 1985 and to the book exhibition Nicht Wird Uns Trennen  (Nothing Will …

… Apartheid security police but despite that, she continued to serve in different leadership capacities in the African … Executive Committee member of the ANC since 1994. She went to Sweden to train in Local Government and Planning Management and …

… criticism. He soon perceived a need for the struggle to be broader than Black Consciousness allowed. He saw the … for another fourteen months, but was then able to escape with Murphy Morobe and Vusi Khanyile. In 1989 Moosa … During the period of the State of Emergency Moosa managed to escape detention by working from underground and staying …

… Committee (NUWCC). In the early nineties, he was elected to leadership structures of the Construction and Allied … His leadership position in the region, allowed him to serve on COSATU national structures. In August 1997, in … Johannesburg, about 12 000 marchers presented a memorandum to the offices of Business South Africa, while in Pretoria a …

… son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in 1885 and married a local Malay woman, Wagieda … dried snoek. At the age of nine Goolam Gool was sent to study at Aligarh College in India. He returned home in … After qualifying as a medical doctor in 1931 he returned to Cape Town and opened a practice in Claremont. He married …

… As a young boy Abrahams emigrated with his parents to England where he was educated at the Jews College and the … and the Great Synagogue, Manchester (1933-37). He came to South Africa in 1937 and on 30 June 1945 he was appointed … Chief Rabbi Abrahams travelled extensively in South Africa to promote the cause of Jewish national revival. He also …

… Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles . Prior to his arrival in SA in 1902, he studied in 1901 at the … exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1912, and continued to do so annually until 1930. Sickert's deft touch and … (Zimbabwe) and South Africa. Since he limited himself to portrait work he did not attract as popular a following as …

… Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape ) in 1959 to Jewish South African parents. He grew up in Sea Point … where he attended Weitzman Primary School and then went to South African College High School (SACS). Nathan holds a … Union of South African Students (NUSAS), which contributed to his political awareness. Nathan was elected President of …

… Atlanta Chiefs. After a few years abroad, Motaung returned to South Africa and immediately started proceedings to form his own team, to the disapproval of many in the football world. Amidst …

… of Natal (now University of kwaZulu-Natal ). She went on to study graphic art in Amsterdam. Cussons has stated that … wrote in Afrikaans instead of English, advice is said to have received from fellow poet D.J. Opperman. From 1942, … of stories and poems.  In 1983, Cussons returned to South Africa after 25 years in Spain where she was living …

… former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning to study art in order to work in the film industry, Hlobo decided to pursue a career as a visual artist as another way of …

… Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African National Congress (ANC)and the South … Congress  from the time the Nationalist government came to power in 1948. Joe Slovo recruited him into the … Committee in late 1962.A defendant until 1958 in the 1956 to 1961 treason trial,Hlapane was detained for six months in …

… the African Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped to form in 1902. Abdurahman was also the first black South African to be elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1904. Gool attended … Michael (2004) Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa. HSRC Press: Cape Town, pp. …