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BiographyElsie Nair
… the Security Police. She went to lawyers and applied for a court interdict to stop further assaults on him. Elsie …
BiographyPopo Molefe
… was handed down a ten-year jail sentence, but the Supreme Court overturned it in 1989. In 1990 Molefe became involved …
Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape
… Congress youth, the party he joined as a schoolboy before the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. When he finished … prison sentence and had endured a year of…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… was registered at the Office of the Master of the High Court in Pretoria on 13 May 2008, five weeks after he was … tender bid. When he turned to the South…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… a police informer and had betrayed them. They appeared in court within forty-eight hours and were advised to plead … and grabbed him – putting him into…
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
… culpable homicide arising from the death of Mdluli. The court ruled that Mdluli had committed suicide. Mrs Mdluli … was paid R15 000 by the Minister of…
Testimony of Professor D. D. T. Jabavu, Walter Rubusana, and the Rev. Abner Mtimkulu of the Cape Native Voters’ Convention and Meshach Pelem of the Bantu Union, before the Select Committee on Subject of Native Bills, May 30, 1927 [Extracts]
… Voters’ Convention and Meshach Pelem of the Bantu Union, before the Select Committee on Subject of Native Bills, May …
BiographyJackson (Balisile)) Nkosiyane
… 1960, Nkosiyane and the Joyi’s unsuccessfully applied to court for an order demanding that the Minister of BAD provide …
BiographyRita Alice Ndzanga
… was in detention. Advocate George Bizos defended them in court. They were acquitted but were immediately re-arrested. …
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
… Indian Congress (NIC) in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court. Mxenge started a bursary fund in memory of her …
BiographyJoseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla
… attended school at the local school, Ikage Primary School, before enrolling at Kilnerton High School where he … detained on 28 March that year. On his…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… as a physiotherapist at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Cape Town . There she joined the Modern … Goldberg in Pretoria Central Prison twice in…
BiographyThomas Madikwe Manthata
… spent six years behind bars in a series of detentions and court cases.After 1974 he worked for the South Africa …
BiographyVuyani “The Beast” Bungu
… Africa. He attended the local primary and high school before dropping out at grade nine to follow his passionate … 1997. Bungu went on to defend his IBF…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… Burgers quickly assembled a largest army not seeing before in the Republic. Armed with 7 pounder Krupp guns they … logic forced them to await the outcome of…
BiographyFrederick John Harris
… emergency. He was banned in February 1964, a few months before police moved to smash the underground ARM. While … a first degree at the University of the…
BiographyHilary Mutch
… South Africa. Claire went to Johannesburg's Roedean school before proceeding with her studies at the University of … Claire and her husband fled to Botswana…
BiographyAlex Tikana
… 1960. Alex Tikana had been an accused in a 1958 court case in which insults were hurled at the chieftainship …
BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
… day North West Province) was rejected by the Supreme Court on the basis that ‘the Natives concerned were not …
BiographyHarriette Emily Colenso
… in particular the Zulu royal house, in the four decades before Union During Dinuzulu's decade of exile on St. Helena, … during which she became the first…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… involved with their social and economic problems. In 1940 he joined the Liberal Study Group, a multiracial …
BiographyMargaret Mncadi
… the Eastern Transvaal, and obtained a degree at Fort Hare before studying medicine at Wits. …
BiographyAnna De Koningh
… from a nearby shipwreck, Bergh was appointed to the High Court of Justice. In 1687, Anna’s husband was put on trial …
BiographyHarold Rubin
… the importance of the exhibition was obscured by a court case. In 1962, Rubin participated in a closed …
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… establish a PAC splinter grouping. The Bloemfontein High Court ordered that this group refrain from gathering or …
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
… British passport valid for all of Africa,e was brought to Court on 8 July and was ordered on 10 July to leave the Colony within seven days. He told the Court…
BiographyAhmed Ebrahim Patel
… Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous hearings of the Group Areas Board. … Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for…
Jeannette Ndhlovu
… of her tertiary education at the University of Zululand before she went into exile. Jeannette and her two sisters, … culminated in the shooting of their…
BiographyVuminkosi Zulu
… award. He worked for a time with Mahlangu in the Transvaal before returning to Rorke's Drift again between 1976 and … which allowed him to spend six months…