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… Dulcie September was a fierce and ambitious anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. Her … SA credit. Swiss banks have unofficial transactions in gold with SA.’” [25] This information was groundbreaking, … September’s murder because they “prefer South Africa’s gold to supporting the struggle of the country’s black …

… TAMBO: The events in Soweto and other parts of South Africa have become a significant … of the liberation struggle. To assess these events and their impact on the future of our movement we must first … is another important side to this situation. The policy of worker migration pursued by the South African regime means …

… Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of … an active member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and he became Secretary in 1953. He was elected an Executive … Committee member of the Transvaal Indian Congress in 1958, and he was one of the founders of the Human Rights Committee …

… who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the untold stories of the aftermath of conflict. Her work …

… Pule Pheto, son of activist and poet Molefe Pheto , was born in Soweto 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and his brother Gibo Pheto were raised. Having been brought …

… He was born in Durban. He attended Mzuvele High School and matriculated in 1979. He studied at Fort Hare University from 1980-1985 and obtained a BA(FA) Degree and an HDE. From 1989-1990 he studied at Wales University …

… family of limited means. He studied at the School of Optic and Photechnic in Berlin and worked as an apprentice for the German Press Agency for … the age of 19, he moved to South Africa to join his mother and stepfather. In September 1951 he joined Drum magazine as …

… the Gedenkschool der Hugenoten in the Dal, or Valley, and the Boy’s High School in Wellington. After completing … school he studied at Victoria College in Stellenbosch and became a teacher in Montagu for two and a half years. He returned to Stellenbosch to further his …

… He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and granted a commission in the 83rd Foot in 1829. He left … Western Australia. Grey’s qualities of leadership surfaced and his compassionate care for the Aborigines was noted when … of New Zealand. He ended the conflict between the settlers and the Maoris, who regarded him highly, and helped to draw …

… of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in Mowbray until he finished his schooling. His mother, Rose Emma, was born in Cornwall, England and his father, Victor, in Woodstock, Cape Town. They were … His father became an engine driver in October 1926 and in 1933 was promoted to first class engine driver and was …

… in promoting international sanctions against South Africa and assistance to struggle for freedom. Mr E.S. Reddy was … His father, Mr E.V. Narasa Reddy, was a follower of Gandhi and president of the Congress in the small town of Gudur. He … He learnt much about Gandhi from his family and from his Hindi teacher in school. Whilst in college his …

… family. Her father,  Nana Sita , who had met and been greatly influenced by  Mahatma Gandhi , joined the  … Indian Congress  (TIC) in 1928. He was an executive member and chairman of the Pretoria branch before becoming president … encouraged all seven of his children to educate themselves and become active participants in community issues and the …

… Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the … Godongwana (Dingiswayo's name before he took a new name) and his brother Mawewe became rivals for the chieftainship. … against the old chief's life. The plot was discovered and he was lucky to escape. Although severely wounded, he …

… 1938.  His grandparents were immigrants from Latvia and Lithuania, who had fled from the Czarist pogroms at the … of the 19th century.  His father was a factory salesman and his mother worked as a shop assistant. Kasrils … matriculated from the King Edward VII High School (KES), and excelled in athletics and history. His initial career was …

… of Stellenbosch, where he completed his M.A. in 1948 and a D.Phil in 1950. He later went on to study at the universities of Groningen, Leiden, Oxford, Berlin and Heidelberg. From 1949, he lectured in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, and became professor and Head of Department in 1969. He held …

… Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work … Education (SACHED). From 1978-1982, she was the editor and a photographer at Ravan Press in Johannesburg, and worked mostly for the magazine Staffrider , but also on …

… from the Pretoria High School for Girls in 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a BA Degree in Fine Art. She married … Archaeology Department University of the Witwatersrand, and changed her name to Judith Mason. Together they had two …

… Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in … I, who was credited with being the child of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was raised a Christian and educated by private European tutors. His father passed on …

… His father was an electrician. His parents, Joseph and Lily Hirson, were Jews who had immigrated to South Africa to evade the pogroms, persecution and discrimination Jews were subjected to in the old Romanov … in Johannesburg. Baruch had a great mathematical ability and insight and studied as a part-time student at the  …

… Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his father, Mdabuli Albert Kunene, a labourer.He grew up at Amahlongwa on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast and attended primary school there and later Kwa-ahluzingcondo High.  After matriculating in …

… Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the Roedean School in Johannesburg, and in 1953 she went abroad to study domestic science at the … science teacher, she moved to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and she lived there for eight years. On her return to South …

… of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee Pillay. The Naiker family arrived … study medicine. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1934 and then returned to South Africa. In 1935 Naicker established a medical practice in Durban and in the same year he founded a Hindu Youth Movement, which …

… eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his wife, Florence Mabel Essex. After completing his schooling at Malvern Primary School and the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg, …

… district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina Swart (nee Robberts). During the South African War (1899-1902) Swart's father was captured and the young boy with his mother and the other children on their farm were held in the …

… 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and principal. His occupation prevented him from being … a result there were many interesting debates in the house and Phyllis developed a questioning attitude. From her early … was to serve tea. At the meeting someone asked her to go and call the boy. She went outside and when she asked for the …

… rose to become a leading Afrikaner writer, philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained a D Phil. His initial qualifications were in theology and philosophy. He started his career as an academic, in …

… He completed his schooling at Pretoria Boys’ High School and thanks to an Anglo-American Corporation Open Scholarship … At Stellenbosch, Cameron acquired a BA Law degree, and an Honours degree in Latin – both cum laude. Cameron was a lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies before he left for Oxford in 1976, on a …

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg … Nyanda attended Thulasizwe Primary School in Soweto and Orlando West High School where he completed his junior …

… St Joseph's College, then served nine months in the navy and enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he studied philosophy and English, completing an honours degree in 1971. He was inspired by European and American student radicalism in 1968 and intellectually …

… She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United States of America (USA). While she did … biographer suggests that she “acquired a more intensive and deeply rooted education from her mother, who had been a teacher of young ladies in Germany and was an accomplished linguist” (Hirson, 1992: 49). Ruth …