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… chief, Sigcau was politically conscientised from childhood and this was reinforced at Lovedale College in Alice where … . She graduated with a BA degree majoring in Anthropology and Psychology and became a teacher. She subsequently worked in KwaZulu …

… plan by the Port Natal Security Branch to abduct Ndwandwe and turn her into an informant as well. The police monitored their meeting and captured her after the two informers turned her over to them. This information came to light during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Amnesty Hearings, which …

… in the home of her grandparents with her older brother and sister. When her grandparents died, her father, Henry … brother. She started primary schooling in the Villageboard and went on to attend the Saint Patrick Catholic School in … with factory bosses. She later became Shop steward, and increased her involvement in representing and …

… a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the House of Assembly, and his mother was Elizabeth Frederika Malan. He studied at …

… in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up his first job … East London, in what was then known as British Kaffraria, and became involved in local politics, concerned especially … was one of the first to urge a separation of the eastern and western halves of the Cape, arguing that they be …

… in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time political organiser and journalist. In 1926 he joined the CPSA, becoming one of … he chaired the party's Johannesburg district committee and also served on the central committee and as editor, from …

… when she worked for the party’s Department of Information and by 1976 she had become the editor of the ANC’s weekly … the Weekly News Briefing that enabled ANC members and supporters worldwide to stay in touch with political … been the accountant for the law firm of  Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo , acted as the ANC regional treasurer in …

… white Native Representatives Council (NRC) in the 1930s, and together with Senator Edgar Brookes helped to change … for new direction in the administering of Native Affairs, and the acceptance of the Smit Report. Ballinger's father was … that  fought against the British in the Anglo-Boer War and had been a prisoner of war for 18 months on St. Helena …

… 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country estate outside … of that environment. Bailey was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, which broke out …

… Singh was the youngest in a family with five brothers and two sisters. There were very few primary schools in the … Group Areas Act of 1950 , the 1956 Treason Trial , and the arrest of Nelson Mandela heightened his political … Singh joined the Natal Indian Youth Congress (NIYC) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1956, then under the …

… David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia …   David became actively involved in the struggle and his first anti-apartheid act was a protest in 1965 at … related issues such as the social history of tuberculosis and the social causes of malnutrition. His use of …

… made clear by events of 1976, the issues we addressed and the work that followed" (8). I would have had no quarrel … land­scapes, experiments in abstraction, figure studies and vignettes of township life hung on the walls" (8). The … as a weapon of the struggle, and the phrase, "cultural worker", began to replace "artist", "musician" or "writer". …

… the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and goats. As a young boy, he was very adept at stick- … of political activities, Mdluli was arrested in 1966 and subsequently sentenced to one year three months … two years.  Despite this, Mdluli never tired to serving and fighting for the oppressed people. Between November and …

… 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school education. During the  1976 uprisings , … nevertheless managed to complete matric on his own in 1978 and then went on to enrol with the University of the North in 1980. He was detained under the Terrorism Act in 1977 and again in 1982 and was convicted for a number of his …

… was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his … He also attended the Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool in Pretoria and matriculated in 1943. He enrolled at the University of … Pretoria, where he completed a master’s degree in Classics and LLB. While at University of Pretoria, Viljoen played an …

… in photography. He photographed for the school newspaper and continued his interest whilst serving in the defence … Elizabeth Technikon. He studied Photography for 4 years and pursued an academic career at the Vaal Triangle … Project, which has been running over the past 14 years and is the organiser of the Picture Essay Documentary Award …

… Trafalgar High School in Cape Town . As a teenager, Rahima and her identical twin sister, Fatima became politically … 1943 Rahima became the shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union. She later became the branch secretary for the union and more active in labour politics. In 1951 she married Dr. …

… Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali and Wally Mongane Serote, the group is often referred to as … of the big cities’. These are not Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, but rather the ‘Black’ cities of Soweto, Langa and Kwa Mashu.  For a long time, the new city poetry was …

… was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his … He also attended the Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool in Pretoria and matriculated in 1943. He enrolled at the University of … Pretoria, where he completed a master’s degree in Classics and LLB. While at University of Pretoria, Viljoen played an …

… Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of 17 he joined the ANC underground. Chabane … Chabane also went to Angola for military training in 1980, and began work underground in 1981. Chabane was arrested by the Security Police in 1984, and was sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of …

… abroad for two years, working as a manual labourer and farmhand. He later applied his farming experience to win … activities, joined the Young Christian Students, and was arrested in 1977 for protesting the detention of YCS leaders Tom Waspe. Hanekom and his future wife, Zimbabwe-born Patricia Murray, worked a …

… E. J. Mqoboli was born around 1860 in the Cape and educated at Healdtown, Mqoboli trained first as a teacher and then as a Methodist minister. Politically conscious and effective as a speaker and writer, he played a prominent … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest to challenge: A …

… University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), he began acting and producing both in South Africa’s previously disadvantaged community and in mainstream theatres. Ahmed was the General Secretary … May 1986 to November 1990. Over the years, Ahmed produced and directed numerous documentaries. Through his company …

… State on 3 January 1892. After his father died, Tolkien and his mother went to England settling in Birmingham. On 14 November 1904 his mother died leaving him orphaned and Father Francis looked after them through a forster … at school Tolkien showed keen interest in learning Latin and Greek.Later in 1911 he was admitted to Exeter College in …

… Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners  and banned persons in South Africa .p.68 Lele Motaung was … on 7 November. The re-trial took place between 16 January and 7 April 1978. Motaung was charged with 1. Undergoing … in the Soviet Union;2. Being in possession of arms and explosives between October 1976 and January 1977 in …

… Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh … Africanism. In 1973 he was released with a  two-year ban and restricted to Mdantsane. While working in East London factories and studying law by correspondence, he became associated with …

… immigrated to South Africa shortly after Arthur's birth and he grew up in Ladybrand in the Free State Province.Letele … Native College, which later became Fort Hare University, and the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1946 and began his career the following year in Lovedale. Letele's …

… He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in …

… his national service he moved to England in 1990 and studied photojournalism from 1993-1994 at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, England, finishing with a postgraduate at the … for Rex Features in London, he moved back to South Africa and was based in Cape Town where he worked for local and …

… in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he completed a Ph.D. in … of the Phelps-Stokes Commissions on education in South and East Africa in 1921 and 1924 - 1925. Loram was employed in Natal's department of …