SAHO global search

1948-2007

Bill Flynn

… of a heart attack.  That same day he was scheduled to act in  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at …

B-0008075

Anna Tempo

… Town to Athlone in 1960 as a result of the Group Areas Act . …

B-0009128

Tu Nokwe

… and, during the filming of  Shaka Zulu , returned to act as Shaka’s wife. After this stint in film, she left for …

B-0008813

Douglas G. Wolton

… Cape Town, he was convicted under the Riotous Assemblies Act and sentenced to another three months hard labor. On his …

B-0009236

1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… January 1986. In 1981, he was arrested under the Terrorism Act, detained without trial, tortured and only released after …

B-0093770

1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which enabled the apartheid government to enforce …

B-0068468

1953

Fanie Jason

… Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black township …

B-0008199

1976

Dumisani Mbatha

… and youths detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act in Johannesburg on 16 September 1976 during a …

B-0149632

Joseph Hugo Saliwa

Joseph Hugo Saliwawas dismissed from the Native Affairs Department (NAD)in Lady Frere Eastern Province, [now Eastern Cape] ‘on account of unsatisfactory…

B-0148423

Ngila Micheal Muendane

NGILA MICHAEL MUENDANE is an ex-political prisoner, a published author, life coach& inspirational speaker and the founder and Executive Member of SOULTALK, as…

B-0146588

Mkhubo Mngomezulu

Mkhubo Mngomezulu, from the Ingwavuma District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], was accused of being one of the ringleaders responsible for unrest in the area.  He…

B-0149275

1879-1924

Alfred Mangena

… He was also prominent in the protests against the proposed Act of Union, passed by Britain's parliament in 1909.Pixley … gallery when Parliament approved the…

B-0141684

1918-2011

Judge Erns Jansen

… homeland of Bophuthatswana under South Africa's Terrorism Act. South African human rights lawyers argued that this act offended against the Bophuthatswana…

B-0149432

Elliot Shabangu

… detainees were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act for acting to re-establish the banned ANC. On 16 February … accused were rearrested under…

B-0149245

1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… as Prime Minister: The Promotion of Black Self-Government Act (1958) This law set up separate territorial governments … states even after some of them became…

B-0009202

1942

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

… Mbeki could visit his mother more often.    By 1953, the Bantu Education Act was passed by the government. It was one of apartheid's … was to build a lasting…

B-0008516

1926-1995

Joe Slovo

… 600 people listed in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act, No 44 of 1950 , and thereby subjected to various … all gatherings under the Suppression of…

B-0009082

1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… post and apologising publicly, pressure fell on Maimane to act without prejudice. Maimane inaction with regards to the … dispute later that same year when he…

B-0125899

1780-1867

King Faku ka Ngqungqushe

… which was prohibited as early as 1807 through Slave Trade Act of 1807 [6] . In 1826 King Faku's elder son Ndamase led …

B-0151697

Magasvarie Govender

… When she was eleven years old, due to the Group Areas Act her family was forced to move to Chatsworth, a township, … although she was not being openly…

B-0150852

Thakorprasad Chotalal Metha

… Banned under the Suppression of Comunism Act …

B-0148000

Monica Matshediso Mokgoro

…  Banned for 5 years under the Suppression of Communism Act . …

B-0149232

1969

Jacob Monakgotla

… was detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 29 January 1969 with nine other Bakubung tribesmen on … Pilansberg. The dispute began in 1965 when…

B-0149627

1847-1935

Mary Matilda Brown

Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform and was a campaigner…

B-0150463

1978

Vuyani Goniwe

Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile…

B-0149226

1976

Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane

… was held under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act. On 11 December police informed his family that he had …

B-0074845

1942

Jeanie Noel

… forced to leave their family home when the Group areas act came into effect, something that she believes to have …

B-0008810

1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… of the North in 1980. He was detained under the Terrorism Act in 1977 and again in 1982 and was convicted for a number …

B-0067978

1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… the eve of the enactment of the Suppression of Communism Act. He was placed under successive bans beginning in 1952 …

B-0009059