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BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
… was one of the founding members of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC). Moosa served on the executive committee of the congress. In 1983, with the launching…
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
… African Nationalist .A member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in East London in the late … to the national executive committee of the …
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… (AZASO) and later the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) where she served in the regional structures … in the 1980s. Kondlo joined the South…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
… than 400 workers and in 1985 following the formation of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Naidoo … delegation to a joint meeting of the …
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
… organising unemployed workers under the banner of the Congress of South African Congress of Trade Unions (COSATU). In the late eighties, he … (SACP). In 1999…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… being the rise and eventual demise of the South African Congress of Trades Unions (Sactu) Emerging in the early apartheid period, Sactu was so … and the…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… a leading figure in the activities of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape. Thabo Mbeki was named … be sentenced to death. The students…
BiographyNosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
… ). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), was an African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee …
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
… home, became a member of the Springbok Legion and the Congress of Democrats (CoD). When he was arrested in 1956, … baby. He was also an active member of the…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
… 1950s, he later served as treasurer of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. He was a leader of the 1952 … then left South Africa to enlist foreign…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
… Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the African National Congress (ANC) activist and trade unionist John Nkadimeng . … political training before was…
BiographySelby Themba Ngendane
… Fort Hare, where he was active in the African National Congress Youth League during the 1952 Defiance Campaign . … and became its secretary about 1955. At…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of the Congress of Democrats (COD) .He became the chairperson of the Congress Of Democrats in Natal,a legal…
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the welcome ceremony by the President of the Republic Paris, France, 6 June 1990
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the welcome ceremony by the …
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the religious service at the Cathedral of UPPSALA Uppsala, Sweden, 13 March 1990
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the religious service at the …
BiographyLettie Malindi
… to Cape Town. Matibi had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912 when it was formed, and her mother … in Maitland , and became a member of the…
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… was working for the Council, it joined the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), which was formed in March 1955. Nkadimeng served on SACTU's 19…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… College. In 1977 he joined the African National Congress (ANC), in the next year he was a founder member of … Secondary School, Soweto, where he assisted…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
… a member of the council of the South African Indian Congress at its inaugural session in 1923, and President of Natal Indian Congress in 1928. He later moved…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
… Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port … he played an active part in organizing for the 1955 Congress of…
BiographyS. S. Tema
… the Transvaal charged with reviving the African National Congress (ANC) after it had become dormant under Pixley … his support for what he regarded as the…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
… and was a member of the first Gauteng African National Congress (ANC) executive after the unbanning of the party. In … and a predecessor of the South African…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… (NACTU). Following the release of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) President, Zeph Mothopong, who was released … Secretary of PAM in December 1989. In 1990…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
… London. Padayachie joined the underground African National Congress (ANC) in 1972. He worked as a microbiologist at … ANC operative and an executive member…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
… During J.T. Gumede's presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) in the late 1920s, Champion held the post of … Champion lost his position in the…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
… two diplomas in music. A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC), he participated in the Defiance Campaign of … conference of the South African…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His … Aided Indian School. In 1949 he attended the Natal Indian…
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
… of Non-European Trade Unions, and when the South African Congress of Trade Unions was formed, he became a member of … its general secretary. Joining the …
BiographyMark Shope
… Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the … of Non-European Trade Unions, and when the South African Congress of Trade Unions …
BiographyFlorence Matomela
… was the Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) and vice-president of the … for furthering the aims of the…