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… Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on … who was a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) .  In 1953, at … Indian Youth Congress together with Indres Naidoo, and was actively involved in the struggle against the …

… Namibia. He attended the Ongwediva Industrial School and qualified as a teacher at St. Mary’s Mission School at … African Defence Force in the Second World War between 1942 and 1943. He taught at St. Mary’s Mission School in northern … Namibia until 1951. He then left for  Cape Town  in 1951 and was employed as a railway police officer. In Cape Town, …

… Province, Sam grew up on the farm where his father worked and the family lived. While at school Sam had a teacher who had a camera and he became fascinated by the concept of pictures coming … school holidays he would go to the Kruger National Park and charge people to get their photographs taken by him. On …

… Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, … 1941 Godfrey Wilson was forced to resign from his position and subsequently took the family back to South Africa. They … kilometers from Alice . Godfrey joined the Red Cross and unfortunately died when Francis was four. Monica Wilson …

… 11 December 1919. His father died while he was still young and this had negative socio-economic repercussions for the … family. The young Phillips was forced to work as a waiter and garden boy in order to pay for his education at Lovedale … of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Unions in 1941 and was a co-founder of the Transvaal Council of Non-European …

… After he was married, Saloojee’s father moved with him and his family to Roodepoort. At first he worked as a jewellery salesman, and had to rent rooms in his boss’ house. This is because it … 6. He was unhappy in the beginning as his clothes were old and he had no shoes. His father told him that an education …

… to save a fellow miner’s life. Her young mother later met and married her step-father, Robert Jefferson Webster, who adopted her. They had three other children, Iris, Eva and Robert Jnr. When she was five years old, the 1922 miners … who handled her divorce. He was a civil rights lawyer and a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). …

… Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist  … moved to Evanon near Vereening.Make attended Tiger Kloof and Healdtown  high schools and later studied law through the University of South Africa. …

… at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand University (Wits) in Johannesburg, … Forum. In 1951, two of Dundee’s sons, Karrim Essack and Dr Limbada returned from their studies at Wits as politically trained and dedicated members of the Non European Unity Movement …

… Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and completed her matric at St Dominics Convent School. She … who actively opposed policies of the Apartheid government and became involved in their campaigns. After completing her …

… Johannesburg in 1938. He attended school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly … settlements. Legae then studied with Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo at the Jubilee Art Centre from 1960 to … Development Programme (USSALEP) to travel to Europe and the United States in 1970. In 1972, he was awarded a …

… His father had been adopted by American Body Missionary and was given the surname, Champion. His original surname was … standard seven. Champion left the school that year and was employed as a Native constable in Johannesburg. He … 1920, Champion soon gained noticed as an African spokesman and became associated with the of the Joint Council of …

… February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg’s best-known and successful lawyers who got lucrative cases and big name clients. He had his own firm, James Kantor & …  Frankel, G., (2013),   Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White SA   (Jacana Media)|Email …

… father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles, which inspired Mini, at 17, to take part in bus fare and rent increase protests. He was also active in campaigns … completing elementary school, he worked as a labourer and trade union organiser. His union comrades knew Mini as …

… (now Gauteng). David was the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children … camera. His brother, Dan, had served in the merchant navy and had brought a Contex camera home after his service. … his interest in photography. In 1948 David matriculated and set his sights on a career in photojournalism. He was …

… even in difficult financial times, the sale of tobacco and alcohol did not diminish, and that decided the direction his main undertakings would … had interests in mining, banking, media, beverage, food and health care sectors. He moved to Stellenbosch, where he …

… 1792. He was the second child of Petronella Margaretha and Hermanus Potgieter. He fought in the Fourth and Fifth Frontier Wars and was a wealthy sheep farmer when, like many other Dutch …

… the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in 1953. At university he involved himself in student politics and gained a reputation as a powerful public speaker. In his … he was elected to the Students' Representative Council and served as its president from 1952 to 1954. He was also …

… in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother was a Mauritian citizen. His father made his first trip to Natal in 1891 and worked as a jeweller in Durban for a few years before returning to Mauritius. PR along with his parents and brother, PA Pather immigrated to South Africa in 1903. …

… Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small … Africa (now Kenya). Moigoi died when Kamau was very young and he was, as custom dictated, adopted by his uncle Ngengi … become Kamau wa Ngengi. Ngengi also took over the chiefdom and Moigoi's wife Wamboi. When his mother died giving birth …

… formed in Cape Town under the leadership of Hamilton Kraai and Reuben Cetyiwe, with the spe­cific aim of also … I depression, the Chamber of Mines, confronted by falling gold prices, took steps to improve its declining … took with them copies of the CPSA paper South African Worker/Umsebenzi (which had become a black paper by then) and …

… College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London and for a one year’s post Diploma in two dimensional and applied design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, …

… in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in Pietermaritzburg, where … Tongaat Hulett (a sugar company) as a personnel officer and went to live in Hambanathi, more or less a dormitory town for company employees and an Inkatha stronghold. Acting on ANC instruction to …

… Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp , West Rand, Transvaal (now … at the University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, in 1948 and majored in English, Afrikaans and Dutch languages and literature  earning a Bachelor of …

… in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and eventually became a music teacher. In 1970, as a young … He was the director of a Black Theatre group in soweto and he is widely known for his poetry and prose. He was the founding member and spokesperson of the …

… in Kromkrans, a reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal, where he went with his … work in the mealie fields, at age seven. His grandmother and uncles raised him. During the 1976 Soweto uprising, … to the University of Fort Hare but was later expelled, and started working at Highveld Steel as a training officer …

… for incitement. They enlisted the service of Harold Wolpe and Ismail Mahomed as their legal representatives and were acquitted after a six months’ trial. Jassat was arrested again during the 1960 state of emergency and imprisoned at both Fort Prison in Johannesburg and …

… Kevin Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most … appointed the Bishop of  Rustenburg  on December 2 1990, and Archbishop Denis Hurley conferred his Episcopal … various parts of South Africa, in townships in Cape Town and Pretoria. In Rustenburg, Bishop Dowling was based at the …

… northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where … a pharmacy in 1907. Roux's father was a free-thinker and a convert to socialism, and Roux, while still a student, helped found the Young …

… Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His … became a taxi owner. In 1927 he purchased his first buses and shortly afterwards he and other bus owners founded the Alexandra Bus Owners' …