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BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He was an infant … by the full Thembu council, Sabata took…
BiographySondeza Lugogo Mngomezulu
… acted as the official messenger of Ntunja Mngomezulu’s court, and was involved in stock thieving. He was arrested …
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… also developed the disease and died. However, shortly before her mother passed away she gave birth to a baby boy, … politically interested and involved in…
Testimony of the Rev. Samuel Jacobus Brander, the Rev. Joshua Mphothleng Mphela, and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October 4, 1904 [Extracts]
… Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October …
BiographyLevi Mabe
… (North West Province) was rejected by the Supreme Court on the basis that ‘the Natives concerned were not …
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… strike for ten days. Mphahlele appeared in a Bloemfontein court on 3 January 1996. A large crowd of friends, supporters … that included his parents and…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… at Britzius College in Johannesburg. It was not long before Mbeki was elected secretary of the African Students' … politics of Nazi Germany. In April 1964,…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
… and broadcaster and starred in The Blacks at the Royal Court Theatre drama. He died in Dortmund, West Germany in …
BiographyWangari Maathai
… part of the rural region of Kenya on the 1st of April 1940. Maathai was of Kikuyu ethnicity. In 1964, Maathai … doctoral studies in Germany and the…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Paul Roux. Later he attended secondary school in Bethlehem before entering the University of the Orange Free State in … as party organizer in the Cape. He…
BiographyNgoza Mvelase
… furnish information to the responsible authorities is to court death and misfortune. It was, thus, motivated that …
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… care centres, a drug treatment facility, the juvenile court system, senior citizen programmes and local boards and … November 1995, shortly after his 37th…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… gathering that Botha’s cabinet should stop slandering us “before the Throne of King George for he is our king as well … marked Makgatho as a formidable…
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
… years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group was left-wing and multi-racial, mostly …
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg, daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to…
”I am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964 …
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… a steering committee established the UDF. In August 1983, before some 20,000 supporters, Boesak helped launch the UDF … Church Square was full of policemen…
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
… to three years suspended for five years in the Wynberg court. In January 1976 he joined the Churches Urban Planning …
BiographyLennox Sebe
… However, he lost his seat in the Assembly when the Supreme Court ruled that the elections were flawed. However he …
BiographyFezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)
… she was in Swaziland . While this claim never went to a court of law it is alleged that two ANC members were docked …
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… required to carry one.Nokwe successfully defended him in court, and Hutchinson made a swift escape from South …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN) on 2 August 1940. His grandparents had come to South Africa around the … he was part of a delegation to meet the…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… Mhlaba and Mlangeni who had been moved there a few months before. He was released on 15 October 1989, at the age of 60. …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… motivated violence’. After almost six months of court proceedings, judgement was delivered on 15 April 1964. … Despite their appeal for release, in March…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… 1984 and was arrested with other leaders of the NIC a week before the elections. He was detained in Durban in 1985 in … taken early retirement. Gordhan was…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… the DA to fighting it all the way to the Constitutional Court. Lindiwe Mazibuko was named South Africa’s Most …
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
… longer sick leave privileges for workers at Arbitration Court, in 1956 he negotiated a 40 percent consolidation of …
BiographyBulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka
… of corruption, but insufficient to win the case in court. Some people in the opposition and legal profession …
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… a few years, and became an interpreter in the magistrate's court in Aliwal North. In the 1890s he was ordained as a …