SAHO global search

1928-2013

Phyllis Naidoo

… Std 6 level. It was in this cause that she made her first political speech at the YMCA in Beatrice Street. In 1958, she … way out of South Africa. In 1961,…

B-0008734

Albert Dlomo

… He was also one of the leaders of protest mounted by political prisoner against inhumane prison conditions. As a … Houston G and Magubane B,  The ANC…

B-0147407

1949-2014

Jabu Sithole

… the military wing of the ANC. He was detained for his political and community activism and spent two years - 1986 – … country. Upon his release from prison,…

B-0149218

1961

Dali Tambo

… of Paris where he acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Affairs in 1981. In 1983, … with Tambo he asked him why he had not…

B-0122793

1925-2013

Colin Wells Eglin

… to the Pinelands town council. In 1953 Eglin became a political campaign manager for his friend Zac de Beer , who … also instrumental in establishing…

B-0008044

1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… attempt to pressure the government to negotiate with all political groups. Slabbert resigned from his position as … an irrelevant institution in the context…

B-0068655

1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… to demand answers regarding the disappearance of political activists - most notably Stanza Bopape from the … civil war that had for years wrecked that…

B-0009188

1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… critique of government policies with anti-apartheid political activism. David's reputation as an anthropologist … order to obtain news and to track down the…

B-0009218

1943-2009

Winston Monwabisi Ngozi

… they smell the blood of a slaughtered cow. This album had political connotations and fostered awareness in the Black … and they released the album Jika ; an…

B-0095437

Myron Peter

… training based on the radical Paolo Frere method for political conscientisation in his community. While in the ASH … Democratic Front (UDF) . As a community…

B-0008880

1926-1995

Joe Slovo

… he became well known for his work as a defence lawyer in political trials. He married Ruth First , daughter of SACP … under the Suppression of Communism Act,…

B-0009082

1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… of Egypt. His teacher warned him that the speech was political. He completed his matriculation in 1959 at the … into the Roodepoort Youth Study Group (RYSG),…

B-0068942

1949

Sadecque Variava

… movement should move forward, how to define ‘black’ as a political subject, what Indians, Coloureds and Africans had … SRC to abolish initiation practices,…

B-0149677

1912-1964

Daniel R Koza

… from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the  … Political activist  …

B-0067728

1982

Victor M Mgadi

… Victor M Mgadi was a political activist with the African National Congress(ANC) …

B-0076960

1940-2009

Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang

… continued to spearhead the Health Department’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in spite of these mounting … (SANAC). This was a committee that sought to…

B-0085118

1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… Black recognition, visibility and the right to be seen as political agents of their own destiny. According to Abrahams … away from Marxism and towards Pan…

B-0085147

1956

Pumzile Mayapi

… for terrorism and sabotage. Mayapi was released with other political prisoners after the first political amnesty was granted in February 1990. … Member of…

B-0149222

1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… Workers Union (BAWU) in 1972, and he became in student political activities and joined the South African Students … the evening following the rally, Myeza…

B-0121056

unknown-2011

Rev George Wauchope

… He skipped bail and in February 1989 fled to Zimbabwe as a political refugee.  Wauchope trained for the ministry in … Wauchope to return home. While they all…

B-0065257

1927-2011

Elsie Nair

… Union. Elsie met her husband, Billy Nair , a friend of political activist Poomoney Moodley , when Elsie would visit … 1964, along with former president…

B-0096462

1903-1972

J B Marks

… very poor. This strike led to his expulsion from school. A political activist and trade unionist, he joined the African … SACP. In 1931 he was barred from…

B-0008450

1959

Thandi Modise

… in the camp. After training she worked in the camps as a political commissar. Modise also received political education, sitting in open classrooms, under…

B-0008591

1908-2003

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

… Indians and to forge co-operation with other militant political organisations amongst African, Coloured and White … passive resistance campaign led to the…

B-0007912

Joseph Fansio Mati

… Member of the ANC, ANCYL and MK, political prisoner and secretary of the UDF’s Border region. …

B-0148437

1926-1996

Harold Wolpe

… President Nelson Mandela recalls the intellectual and political ferment of Wits at that time, including the … several anti-apartheid figures in the 1950s and…

B-0141688

1973

Mary Margaret Ngalo

… unite women from all walks of life regardless of race or political affiliation, in the fight against apartheid. In … ANC official. While in Tanzania, she…

B-0150323

mid 1800s-1921

Martin Lutuli

… Congress, an organization that pressed for increased political representation for Africans as well as for economic … of African Politics in South Africa:…

B-0008346

1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… and handed in their passes. This was the first decisive political act on his part. He was arrested in 1962, while he … on teaching and athletics, and gave…

B-0068743