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… traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated raids by police. His cousin, William Shibambo, worked as artist on a part-time basis. Painting and drawing images classified as ‘township art’ inspired … his interest in art by working with Matsemela Manaka and his Creative Youth Association (CYA). The organisation …

… died at a young age due to a heart problem. Learning music and playing sport, young Chris did well at school. After he … to Minnesota University to study cardio-thoracic surgery and congenital intestinal atresia and after obtaining an MSc and a PhD he returned to Cape Town …

… gaining a national Art Teachers Diploma; between 1972 and 1976 he studied philosophy and art history at UNISA and gained a BA degree. In 1972 and 1973 he lectured in …

… Durban, the Croydon College of Design, Surrey, England, and at the UN(P) where he lectured in printmaking.  He has participated in group exhibitions in SA and abroad. His own work is represented in public and private collections in this country and overseas. He set …

… recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", … War I Kitchener organized armies on an unprecedented scale and became a symbol of the national will to win. Kitchener … was appointed governor of the British Red Sea territories and subsequently became commander in chief of the Egyptian …

… to his father's ceding of the land between the Fish and Keiskamma Rivers to the Cape Colony, Maqoma became … position, Maqoma was hounded continually by colonial raids and expelled from his territory in 1829, the year Ngqika … with increased military pressure from the colony, Maqoma and Tyali (his half-brother) had no alternative but to take …

… ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and spiritual influences in Xhosa society, there is little … work in using the clues left to us by colonial records and sources as well as Xhosa oral traditions, to formulate a … narrative of Makhanda based on the socio-political and religious milieu of the period in which he existed. Thus, …

… He also worked as a building site clerk. He married, and settled in Jabavu, Soweto . During the 1950s, Sejake was … of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), and the African National Congress (ANC) in Soweto. Noted for … secretary of the non-racial, though mainly African, Iron and Steel Workers Union, affiliated to SACTU. His militant, …

… teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter Scott and Jacob van Lennep. Having been inspired by these authors he began writing verse, and some appeared in “Ons Klyntji”. S.J. du Toit invited …

… a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents died, during … time for fighting a White opponent. He also worked for and befriended a Jewish family in Cape Town, the Steins, who … Stein took their surname. He got into property development and in the late 1950s He met his first wife, Lillian Jacobs. …

… Cape Town, on 2 February 1944. He grew up in the area, and as a teenager showed keen interest in music. This was … instrument was the penny-whistle which he learnt to play, and he began using it for performances around the township in 1958. He then turned his attention to drums, and later the flute. Coetzee finally settled for the tenor …

… Eminent sociologist and political analyst Professor Lawrence Schlemmer was born … of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of Pretoria from where he … (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). As professor and dean of social sciences, he established and managed the …

… William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable … parsonage, Feetham was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, England where he graduated in 1897. … of Lionel G. Curtis he was appointed deputy town clerk and subsequently Town Clerk of Johannesburg from 1903 to …

… Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to … Gqabi joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in 1952 and later the underground Communist Party . At the same time, … newspaper called the  New Age  as both photographer and reporter. His job of exposing the hidden crimes of …

… then to Weltevreden near the present village of Koppies, and from there to Rietfontein in the Heidelberg district … of Laing's Nek, where he displayed courage at Ingogo and in the storming of Majuba in early 1881. After the war and the restoration of Transvaal independence, he was elected …

… to Durban to work for an older brother who made shirts,and to attend school,graduating from Sastri College in 1939. … University of the Witwatersrand which he completed in 1946 and qualified as an attorney in 1950s. He became in involved … at university. During this period he also helped found and run the Natal Teachers’ Union.  He was a close friend of …

… opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and earning power. For seventeen years she held that position … a singer of temperament; capricious by nature, imperious, and sometimes even feared by colleagues, but always adored b … quite amazing. She comes from a humble Afrikaans family, and arrived in Vienna ii 1954 as a naive boeremeisie, armed …

… on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the … an altar boy in Pietermaritzburg. He was bright at school and won a bursary to Maritzburg College where he gained a … his father could not afford to keep him at school and he was forced to leave school and begin working at the …

… Michaelhouse , where he excelled. He joined the army at 17 and served in Egypt and then Italy. Following World War 2 he began studies in … he studied African languages (Brown became fluent in Zulu) and ‘Native Law and Administration’ at the University of Cape …

… As a girl she had developed an interest in the arts, and in the 1950s married an up-and-coming actor, David de Keyser, a marriage that lasted 10 years. She went to Britain to study further, and it was there that she learned of the detention of her …

… – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an … child. Her eldest brother A.H. Gool studied in England and was the second Black doctor in South Africa. At his insistence Jane and her sisters were removed from a mission school because he …

… as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg and while there she met members of the Communist Party. She later joined the party and became an active member. After she was married, the … Ponnen household in Durban became a hub of anti-apartheid and trade union activity from 1940 to 1966. Her home was an …

… was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew up and spent his teenage life. He received his primary education … Higher Primary School where he passed his standard six and then proceeded to Healdtown Boarding School where he …

… in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed the Natal-Transvaal border and was sentenced in January 1911 to six weeks in prison. He … who were on strike. He was arrested in November 1913, and charged with incitement and with promoting the strike. …

… suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died from malnutrition at a very young age. His … means. Modisane wrote that: My mother accepted her life, and I suppose, so did the other shebeen queens; they chose this life and accommodated the hazards. My mother wanted a better life …

… policy regarding South Africa. Hobhouse was a humanitarian and pacifist who came to visit South Africa in December 1900, … Three months later she founded the South African Women and Children Distress Fund to collect money for Boer … concentration camps  set up by the British in the OFS and Transvaal. When Hobhouse arrived at the camps, she was …

… by students from the nearby University of Fort Hare, and in 1954 he joined the African National Congress Youth … athlete, he later helped organize non-racial sports groups and campaigned for a sporting boycott of South Africa. In … Elizabeth. Mostly through the influence of Govan Mbeki and Raymond Mhlaba , he also became a member of the outlawed …

… He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise Moseneke. He attended primary and secondary school there. At 15, when in standard eight (Grade Ten), Moseneke was arrested, and convicted of participating in anti-apartheid activity. He …

… of a Methodist minister, Reverend Modisagarekwe Michael and Lotlamoreng Elizabeth Mokae. His parents migrant … at Baragwanath Hospital (now Chis Hani Baragwanath) and started a general practice in Soweto before moving on to Ga-Rankuwa. He is an ardent and active promoter of African langauges. Author, medical …

… began work in a factory in 1975. Here she joined the Metal and Allied Workers Union , and participated in a strike in 1976. After this she was fired, and since she was recognised as a shop steward she could not …