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… Slave Lodge, the world outside disappeared both socially and physically, in a building from which those inside could not see out and those outside could not see in. In his thesis ‘Drawing … their parents when the Ameersvoort intercepted this ship and took 250 children off the ship. As a result they were …

… 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) … in India. He became politically active in the mid-1920s and emerged as the leading figure in 1935 when orthodox Hindus and various followers split, following the marriage of the …

… of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and 1976. In 1975 Ngcobo graduated from the University of … earning distinctions in constitutional law, mercantile law and accounting and was admitted as an attorney in 1981.   In 1985 he was …

… Transke i. He was the fifth of the six children of Gilbert and Mary Hani, and one of the three that did not die during infancy. The name Chris was adopted by him as a nom de guerre, and was in fact the real name of his brother. Chris grew up a …

… in Lovedale, Monica Hunter Wilson went on to read History and Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge at the age of 26. … married Godfrey Wilson in 1935.  They had two daughters and two sons. Her Pondoland book, Reaction to Conquest , was …

… Mohammed Cassim Bassa the estate agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He … eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a businessman, and his wife Fathima. Bassa's father came to South Africa … with his family in 1927. Bassa was schooled in Durban and in 1944 matriculated through the prestigious Sastri …

… is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo , He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane Tambo. When Tambo was a baby, his parents were … Lancing College in West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and later went on to study at the American University of …

… to Johannesburg in the early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade unionist.Gaetsewe was very active in the African National Union of Laundry and Dry Cleaning Workers and the Management Committee of the …

… he served his internship. He returned to South Africa and opened a general practice in Kliptown. Later he lived in … moved to Nelspruit in the late 1970s, practicing as a GP and serving as a forensic pathologist at the local hospital. … early 80s, Wadee joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) and opposed the co-option of the Indians and Coloureds and …

… works predominantly in installation, photographic images and video, addressing social issues pertaining to civil … work extends from her previous occupation as a journalist, and is as such context-driven: 'I think that my early work in … because of that sort of interest in people's exact words and precise narratives’. [1] In the 1980s, Williamson became …

… in 2009 She was born in Galeshewe Township near Kimberley and matriculated at the local St Boniface High School in … in 1982, the Bachelor of Law (LLB) two years later, and completed Master of Laws (LLM) in 1987. She also studied … She started her work-experience as a nursing assistant and later as a retail sales-person before her appointment as …

… secret police, she was forced to abandon her education and flee to Switzerland to escape the prison sentence that … operation, as well as storage facilities, supply routes, and two training camps, one run by Chinese instructors, the other by Russians. She underwent military training and learnt how to take an assault rifle apart and put it back …

… for her figurative sculptures, often appearing in tableaux and installations, and for her photomontages. Her figures are characterised by their mixture of human and non-human elements and a disquieting presence. This is …

… Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the National President of the South African …

… high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef family decided to move back to … Pierneef into contact with the works of the old masters and it had a lasting impression on him. He studied part time …

… October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He … his primary education at the Surat Hindu Primary, Durban and then attended Nigel High School, Springs Secondary School and matriculated from William Hills High School in Benoni in …

… commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many independent … only the death of its founder but later military defeat and calculated attempts to break it up. Shaka was a son of …

… Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in … He was one of six children, with two sisters, Zubeida and Aysha and three brothers, Ismail, Mohammed and Haroon. As there …

… of the past 25 years on Afrikaans as a public language and the continued existence of the shrinking Afrikaner ethnic … tragedy –‘an irreconcilable struggle not between right and wrong, but between right and right.’ [i] In 1965 The … South African War (1899-1902) fought over the Transvaal gold mines against the might of the British Empire A tenth of …

… KwaZulu-Natal) on 18 June 1929, to Vunina (born Nxasana) and Jotham Mvusi, second generation Christian converts and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a graduate of the prestigious Fort Hare University and graduated in 1935 with a Theological degree. His …

… They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA Balkema. But the one who was to transform that … his customers were bookish people: academics, students and qualified professionals. Even in those pre-war years … - students like WEG Louw, WJ du P Erlank (Eitemal) and Ernst van Heerden. Balkema was a diffident, retiring …

… Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was … older brothers, Oliver (1848-1854), Albert (1843-1843) and Emile (1852-1852), who died before she was born. Her …

… October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who later … to politics at a young age - his father was a Cape voter and his cousin,  Sol Plaatje , a founder member of the ANC - … was his fellow student, he entered Fort Hare University and in 1923 became the first African to obtain a B A at a …

… (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely … in the church. There were seven children, five brothers and two sisters, in the family. From very early, the parents … African Students Organisation (SASO) General Secretary and after that served as its Publication Officer, being …

… education; his father was a headmaster of a primary school and his mother was involved in teaching. Archie was sent to Healdtown, and a significant influence in his life at the time was … his undergraduate studies, he followed an Honours degree and then pursued a Masters (MA) degree. It was during his …

… She is concerned with the complexities of identity and belonging in relation to language, race, colour, gender and the History of South Africa. Searle also produces work about land and rituals of the land, whether stomping on mountains of …

… born on 13 December 1886 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. He and his elder brother, Richard Msimang,were born to Joel Msimang and his wife Joanah Radebe. Joel Msimang was a well-known … Primary School in Nhlangano, Swaziland. Between 1903 and 1907 he studied first at Kilnerton Institution, a …

… South Africa with his family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music director Stanley ‘Spike’ Glasser, his father … would only learn to play the harmonica 10 years later and instead became a pianist that occasionally played at …

… 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four brothers and sisters came to Cape Town. His mother kept the family …

… in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex moved to Boston Massachusetts where … Comparative Area Studies, focusing on Latin America and Africa. The summer of 1998 he worked resettling Cuban, Bosnia and Sudanese refugees in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Summer …