SAHO global search

1942

Terry Bell

… headline writer, Suleiman Babla Saloojee . He was detained under the 90-day law in 1964.  He fled into exile to Zambia … forced to leave in 1970 when, with…

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1963

Justice Sfiso Mkame

… after the Soweto uprisings and a time when the country was under a state of emergency. The work is dedicated to the …

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1906-1968

Archibald Campbell Jordan

… of short stories in Xhosa was translated into English under the title, Tales from Southern Africa . His great novel …

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1915-2003

Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima

… of ANC links. Journalists and students were also kept under strict control. Matanzima claimed that working with the …

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1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… increasingly to education, arranging music education tours under the aegis of the Education Department, and later also …

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… country acquainted him with the need for education, and under his influence, the Cape Synod of 1876 decided to …

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1947-2010

Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo

… She then moved to Johannesburg, where she made a recording under the name Victoria Mhlongo. Her 1963 version of My Boy …

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1925-2000

Alfred Baphetuxolo Nzo

… executive committees of the ANC. In 1962, Nzo was placed under 24-hour house arrest. In June 1963 he was detained for …

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1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… Grootboom, teaching him to write film scripts. While under Langa’s wing, Grootboom was introduced to John Rogers, …

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1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

… Sobukwe . Thebehali joined the Progressive Party (PP) under  Helen Suzman . He served as President of the Youth …

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… Italy. Before returning to South Africa he studied drawing under Heinrich Steiner in Florence. Skotnes 1946 he studied …

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1943

Mmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi

… she was soon asked to exhibit. The Johannesburg Artists under the Sun exhibitions in the early 1980s represented a …

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1908-1984

Frederick Hutchinson Page

… at the Port Elizabeth School of Art, where he studied under Jack Heath from 1946 to 1947. With Heath’s …

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… late 1980s,and with his activist sonJoey,banned and put under partial house arrest from 1988 to 1990.  Frustrated …

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1935

Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs

… 21, and most of his work involved defending people charged under apartheid's racist statutes and repressive security …

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1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… resulted in him being arrested. Radebe was convicted under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to 10-years …

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1962

Greg Marinovich

… guerillas and discovered an interest in how people live under political extremis. After returning to South Africa, he …

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1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… On 12 May 1969, Ndzanga and her husband were detained under Section 6 of the  Terrorism Act . She remained in …

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1945

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

… National Defence Force (SANDF). In 1994, she participated under the auspices of the Transitional Executive Council and …

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1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… defendant in the Treason Trial and in 1960 she was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act for eleven years. Once …

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1939

Jonty Driver

… of his involvement in the organisation. He was held under the notorious 90 Day Detention law and kept in solitary …

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1957

Saleem Badat

… latest book, The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid . Dr Badat’s writings are concerned …

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1962-2002

Steve Hilton-Barber

… stringer in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Apprenticeship under Obie Oberholzer, Department of Fine Art, Rhodes …

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1915-2006

Hilda Bernstein

… on writing and being published. In 1960, she was detained under the State of Emergency without charge following the …

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… to set up black trade unions, undertaking this cause under extremely difficult conditions created by the …

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Mohamed Farouk Asvat

… Trust to research the socio-economic-political situation under apartheid (which was serialised in two newspapers). He … Berkeley University in classes on…

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1880-1945

Shapurji Jivanji Randeria

… had been granted a permit such as was issued to Europeans under the Peace Preservation Ordinance. He could not submit …

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1971

Solomon David Lion

… the same language as the locals and where he could be kept under close surveillance. He was banished on 26 May 1958 to … From the book, Forgotten People -…

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1941-2013

Wendy Heather Woods

… started to become truly aware of the realities of life under apartheid for Black people. Biko lived a 30-minute … two Black men. When her husband was banned…

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