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BiographyHarold Strachan
… with Selby Mvusi in the 1950s. Strachan was an anti-apartheid activist and was one of the few early members of … we Sizwe (MK) , the military wing of the ANC…
Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town by Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Moses, Jeremy Seekings
… in the New South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Apartheid Cape Town … in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in post-apartheid Cape…
‘United Nations must take action to Destroy Apartheid’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 29 October 1963
… ‘United Nations must take action to Destroy Apartheid’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political …
BiographyManiben Sita
… Indian Affairs, Sita resigned as a form of protest against apartheid education . When the congresses decided on the … for the House of Delegates . This was…
BiographyGraeme Williams
… working for Reuters in 1989 covering the transition from apartheid to ANC rule as a photographer. In 1991 he started … South Africa) 2007 - Duke University …
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… together people of different races in opposition to the apartheid regime. Initially, the LPSA campaigned for a … – a position he used to fight every piece of…
BiographyLeleti Khumalo
… be reckoned with as a black South African actress during apartheid era.In 1991, together with Whoopi Goldberg, Khumalo … the story of a 1976 student uprising…
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
… Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the … at the University of Cape Town in 1958. His opposition to…
BiographyAllister Sparks
… Mail was the major voice of the liberal opposition to the Apartheid government and Sparks made a name for himself when he revealed that the committed…
BiographyNdeutala Selma Hishongwa
… Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying Apartheid , a novel about a newlywed couple in northern … marriage. It depicts the ways that the…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
… townships. There she witnessed the heavy-handedness of the apartheid government’s security forces, experiences that she … Several of these works contrast the…
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… freedom in South Africa. As a trade unionist during the apartheid era, he was among the leading people who actively fought against the apartheid system…
BiographyMartin Plaut
… on Africa and the Middle East. He liaised with the Anti-Apartheid Movement as part of his role as Secretary of the … the Party on many bodies, including the…
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
… poetry and news reporting. The New Age was a radical anti-Apartheid newspaper edited by political activist Ruth First . … Africans countries ”” Kenya,…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… this time, he became one of the founders of the anti-Apartheid movement in the United States of America. In 1967, … the 1980s. Once again he became a major…
BiographyEthel Walt
… of leisure and privilege while ignoring the realities of apartheid. However, her courage and conviction forced her to … away from this comfort to fight…
BiographyGlenn Moss
… which aimed to educate White students on resistance to Apartheid. As a result of his political activities, the Apartheid Government withdrew Moss’s passport…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… liberation movements in a period of dramatic opposition to apartheid – the African National Congress (ANC) and its … of the State’s repression of all and any…
Sizakele Sigxashe
… Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities. He left the country in 1964 and joined … Mongalo, Aziz Pahad and Mtu Jwili…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
… sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial by the apartheid regime in 1964. Upon his release in 1987, he was … immediately part of the people's…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF), an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. Oscar was only released in October …
BiographyChris van Wyk
… Ravan Press, the publisher of dissident voices opposed to apartheid . In 1979, he published one of the most-quoted anti-apartheid poems, “In Detention”,…
BiographyHamilton Naki
… he was never involved in surgery on human subjects. Under Apartheid Hamilton was disadvantaged because he was barred … this reason, his role was gradually…
BiographyDonald James Woods
… As result Woods was prosecuted several times for violating apartheid’s publication laws. Woods in turn successfully sued the apartheid government for…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… years in South Africa. It was hard for her to process the apartheid system and its policies. She has recounted in … involved in the Black Sash in 1965. Black…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of experts for the support of victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle, 09 April 1973, OSLO
… African Unity and the United Nations in the fight against apartheid and colonialism. The key word in the declared … people is raging wherever the forces of…
BiographyRick Turner
… and theorists before he was killed at the age of 36 by an apartheid assassin. A biography of Rick Turner ↵ Richard … initiated acts of sabotage before it was…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… (now Western Cape), to a family staunchly opposed to apartheid. Her father, a lawyer, worked in the Coloured … of Athlone on the Cape Flats , Cape Town…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… this tragedy in European history and his own life under apartheid. A significant turning point for Asmal in the 1950s … Throughout these years, as a founder…
BiographyBarry “Anderson” Richards
… Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. In 1968 he performed in an … who staged a walk-off in protest against the…