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… Small multicoloured illustrations. Voter education on how to vote in Transitional Local Council areas. Artwork of city … How to vote …

… graphic of paint tube painting South Africa; text: Time to act, United Bond Permanent; UDF unites, Apartheid divides: … Time to act …

… There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For … resources including links / timelines / books / articles. "Bound To Strike Back" Those who became migrant labourers on the mines …

… of the late artist Tito Zungu which provides subsidies to South Africans wishing to study art. Manana enrolled at the Durban Institute of … centre stage in the burdensome role of caregiver. On her back she carries a young man; her gaze is directed away from …

… dagger during a parliamentary session. Tsafendas was born to a Greek father, an engineer named Michalis Tsafandakis, … 14 January 1918. Early life Aged three, Tsafendas was sent to live in Egypt with his paternal grandmother and aunt while … and grew up dreaming one day of becoming a rebel himself. Back in Mozambique as a teenager, Tsafendas was listed as a …

… - after they blew up a railway tool shed and tried to dynamite a railway signal relay case. Subsequently two of … Laloo Chiba . Indres and his friends were among the first to be caught in the Transvaal while committing sabotage as … I swallowed air desperately, but then the canvas slapped back into my mouth and once more I started to choke, my body …

… few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he was sent to live with his grandmother at Effingham, Natal (now … went bankrupt and although Ebrahim's parents moved to the Transvaal, he remained with his grandmother until he … the racist party had promised to send the Indians back to India.  He later attended Clairwood High School where …

… by Helen Joseph At long last 1962 arrived and I could say to myself, "It's THIS year" ”” this year that my bans would end and I would be free again, free to leave Johannesburg, to attend meetings. The last year had … from him all the years afterwards. One day he walked back into the house. I thought it was a ghost and I got a …

… Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936.  She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960,  Ronnie Kasrils , later, her husband, visited Durban, to visit his relative Jacqueline Arenstein , a member of the … moved to another safe house in Kloof. Eleanor, on her way back from Johannesburg, again on another errand for Ronnie’s …

… also borrowed heavily from his White neighbours and failed to pay them back. As a result, he was repeatedly before the Natal courts to face various fines. In 1905 he was convicted of faction …

… Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising, also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt, which occurred during a … rising costs and a fall in the price of gold. A general strike was organized by white trade unions in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1922. This was in response to intensified exploitation of the miners and a decision by …

… boomtown that would become Johannesburg. The city was tied to the mineral revolution: its economy was centred around the … role as a voice for black South Africans and did not rise back onto the political scene until the 1940s when it was … likely to support than a communist gathering. A further strike is delivered to the apartheid government with a …

… of raising funds from white liberal and inviting them to address ANC meetings.Between 1952 and 1960 he was a member … of May Day and June 26 in the eastern Cape in 1950.He went to jail in the 1952 Defiance Campaign,was charged with … 30 accused were acquitted in Pretoria, Mayekiso returned to the fray and was repeatedly arrested and jailed for …

… a successful import-export business. The family was forced to relocate to Bloemhof, a nearby town, following the Great … campaign he actively participated in was the 1950 May Day strike, in protest of the Suppression of Communism Act. … work permit in Zambia, and was forced to send the children back to South Africa to live with her parents because she …

… of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and … When I received a cable sent by my father, I flew back to South Africa to be amongst my Bantu people, leaving …

… Unions to form council to cover SAB factories …

… from Eveline High School in Bulawayo, Diana travelled to Cape Town to attend the University of Cape Town, [vii]  where she … an engineer named Brian Mitchell [ix] . In her early years back in Rhodesia she also taught at several different high …

… Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at … worker and cook at a local hospital. Sobukwe was exposed to literature at an early age by his oldest brother. His … years, but he was not given a teaching post. He then went back to high school, enrolling at the Healdtown Institute, …

… King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the … rapidly among the cattle - a vital source of sustenance to the livelihoods of the Xhosa. Hence, King Sarhili’s rule … party marched along near Nqabara River, he was shot in the back and his dead body was mutilated by the colonial …

… 1912 Laubser visited Pretoria and subsequently moved to the Transvaal, taking a job as a governess on a farm for a … until outbreak of World War 1. Thereafter she moved to London, and began her studies at the Slade School, London, … schooled in the principles of Modernism. Laubser went to back to Germany soon after the 1922 exhibition and settled in …

… (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and … under the Immorality Act . They were charged and went to trial. Due to a lack of concrete evidence the pair was … , Albie Sachs etc. In 1995 Pamela and her daughter moved back to South Africa. …

… In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to study in theology at the Andover Theological Seminary. … his studies, Grout was appointed one of six missionaries to South Africa by the American Board for Foreign Missions … 1837 Grout set sail again to take his little girl, Oriana, back to America. While in the United States, he married …

… against house, and eating away at the precious ties that bound us together. This strife among ourselves wastes our energy and destroys our unity. My message to those of you involved in this battle of brother against … Coronation Brick and Tile factory in Durban came out on strike. They were followed by workers all over Durban. Out of …

… This was before the axe of the Group Areas Act fell to declare the area "white" and landlords were themselves … second floor, and the letters stood out like a challenge. To white South Africa it was bad enough that two men with … Hare and there we first met: in the thick of a student strike. After Fort Hare, we parted company. I went on to …

… University of Fort Hare in the early 1970s, and went on to join the Black People’s Convention (BPC) . After BPC was … Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO). Wauchope shot to prominence in his role as publicity secretary during … (TRC) to enable him to get a pardon so that he could come back home, Wauchope insisted that he had nothing to declare …

… herding and milking their father’s livestock and learned to work the fields with an oxen-led plough. Horses were an … institution.  Although Xuma and his fellow students were back at Clarkebury within a matter of days, they had made … that young Xuma was one of the leading figures behind the strike. Six weeks after he was readmitted to Clarkebury, Xuma …

… closely as part of an alliance of liberation movements bound by the same objectives in their struggle. The victory … independence celebrations, the ANC tried unsuccessfully to send a delegation headed by our Secretary General, but … necessary that as soon as possible I should pay a visit to the newly independent African State, to affirm the …

… Mandela and de Klerk agree that they would go back to constitutional negotiations, after the ANC had … Mandela, leader of the African National Congress decided to suspend his party's participation in the Convention for … Mandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks …

… where the family stayed for a short while before moving to his uncle’s farm in Kgokong. Here Bopape continued his primary education to standard six. He took two classes a year to make up for … Square in Johannesburg, and called for a one-day general strike on May Day (1st of May). This was an effort to call on …

… (now Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) in 1936.  He referred to himself as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was the first … the Presidency of former President Nelson Mandela that was to lead to the reconstitution of a San community in the … for the San people. About 40 000ha of land were handed back to the San in March 1999. He made headlines when he …