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… Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young and Uys was raised by an English-speaking grandmother, and educated at Athlone High School, Johannesburg, Transvaal …

… in Tlhabane. Frustrated by the racial hierarchy, he left and from 1972 spent most of the next decade working at … Malebane-Metsing was a clerk in the finance department, and was promoted to the main office to work as a secretary of … Malebane-Metsing began to mobilise workers into unions, and urged miners to resist oppressive conditions. He was …

… Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German immigrants who met in Philippolis and married and settled there in the late 1870s. The family was on a …

… family. His formal education was perpetually interrupted and ended when he finished the ninth grade in 1942. After leaving school, he worked as a waiter and manual labourer. Mabhida’s two early political motivators … a dedicated member of Clements Kadalie's Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), and Harry Gwala , a young …

… Campbell Jordan, was an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr Priscilla Phyllis Jordan (born, Ntantala), was a teacher, researcher and lecturer. Both his parents were active members of the  …

… Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near … (now Polokwane). He grew up shepherding his father’s and the farmer’s livestock, growing maize and processing fruit. Bopape's primary education started at …

… When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he was sent to live with his grandmother at Effingham, … When he was two, his father's business went bankrupt and although Ebrahim's parents moved to the Transvaal, he … in Durban, Natal. In 1949,when Ebrahim was 12 years old,he and his grandmother moved to Greyville in Durban.it was in …

… I.B. Tabata)  was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After … in Cape Town in 1931. He became employed as a truck driver and joined the racially mixed Lorry Drivers' Union, serving … executive. He joined the Cape African Voters' Association and educated himself politically by reading widely in Marxist …

… Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, … grandmother). As a single parent, Nesta Nala has raised and supported her family entirely from the production of … 1997:2). Nesta Nala has seven children (Greenberg)[i] and has taught five of her daughters to make pottery, Bongi …

… was born in 1962 in Soweto . Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the University of Swaziland in 1987 and three years later, an LLB at Wits University. She then … teacher at her former school, Evelyn Baring High School, and taught from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 she entered the legal …

… the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful business as a builder and contractor in Bloemfontein.In 1892 he moved to … Bloemfontein where eventually he became a wealthy builder and contractor as well as a key figure in Orange River Colony …

… Lithuania. He was the son of Zecharya Alter Abramowich and Rachel Leah Sherman. As a young boy Abrahams emigrated … to England where he was educated at the Jews College and the University of London. He was minister of the Shepherd's Bush synagogue in London (1928-32) and the Great Synagogue, Manchester (1933-37). He came to …

… Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a municipal painter, Fred Landman and a washerwoman, Lena Landman nee Fortune. In later life … he started school late, aged 9, because he was hardworking and industrious, he won municipal scholarships to attend …

… studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to 1957. Between 1959 and 1966 he taught art at schools in KwaZulu Natal. From 1961 to 1979 he was  the founder, owner and Director of the Walsh-Marais Gallery in Durban, an arts …

… A documentary and fine art photographer, Leonie's (nee Swanepoel) work is represented in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Johannesburg. Leoni has co- produced one 24 minute … for the Mennonite Central Committee in Mozambique (2001), and co-produced two inserts for CNN Inside Africa (2001). Her …

… (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Thambi "Naran" Naidoo, was born in Pretoria , Transvaal … Shanthie was involved in organising school boycotts and distributing leaflets. She attended mass meetings at the … she was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and then in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) …

… Assembly. He attended primary school at Mqanduli and junior and senior secondary school at Jongilizwe College, Tsolo, a school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. Holomisa joined the Transkei Defence Force in …

… She became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and worked closely with Albertina and Walter Sisulu .  As an ANC volunteer, Smith attended the 1955 Congress of the People in Kliptown and joined the ANC Women’s March , against passes, in August …

… funds in the United States of America (USA) between 1896 and 1899 to build the Ohlange Institute  (1900), the newspaper Ilanga Lase Natal (1903) and many other ground-breaking institutions that have … She was a pioneering political activist, educationist, and musician. Her many talents were crucial in the …

… Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania . Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four … educated in Johannesburg. He began work at the age of 16 and became an active trade unionist, serving as secretary of …

… Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March … where he worked in the youth  ministry of a Baptist church and as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company in … Wynberg. During this time he helped form the Black Health and Black Allied Workers Union of South Africa(BAWU), serving …

… to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations therein. She enters history either through … There is little evidence to discern who she actually was and why she in particular made the prophecies she did, let … Bradford, Helen and Qotole, Msokoli, “Ingxoxo enkulu ngoNongqawuse (A great …

… This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael … that many children went without shoes, even in the winter, and that during the winter, when the tides came in and flooded the low-lying slum, families of ten were reduced …

… in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was forced to leave school because he could not … He was the well-known musician of the Mbaqanga genre and acknowledged original of a Mbaqanga sub-style known as … regalia; a leopard skin over his chest; hair armlets and leggings; a skirt of animal tails and traditional beads …

… Dhlomo was born on 25 June 1956 in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, and grew up in nearby Bergville. Dhlomo matriculated in 1974 from St Chad's School in Ladysmith, and continued to study and received her National Secretarial Certificate at Inanda … Tradition, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery.| “ Art and politics in a changing South Africa: Bongi Dhlomo in …

… Zulumathabo Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of … Tool of Analysis, African Origin of Mathematical Teaching and Learning, African Historiography of Science and …

… Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC … 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of Communications’ during the … a BSc (entomology/biology) from the University of Zambia and was also educated in the United States at the …

… for Zambia where she obtained her LLB degree. Between 1981 and 1983 she taught English and Law at the Botswana polytechnic and from 1983 to 1986 she taught Commercial Law at the …

… to Durban to educate his sons Dawood, Hoosen, Mohammed, and Moosa. After qualifying as a bookkeeper, Seedat entered … among them Johannes Nkosi . Years later, when Nkosi and his grave site were long forgotten, Dawood identified the grave at Stellawood Cemetery and erected a tomb stone at the site. He and Fatima organised …