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… of four parishes, Bloemfontein, Rietpoort, Rietrivier and Winburg. From 1849 to 1852 he travelled extensively to service and baptize people. He mitigated the feelings of the … Grey College in Bloemfontein. He became the first rector and the head of the hostel. In the very same year he married …

… elected Assistant Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and the Dairy Workers Union. Hashe also joined the  African … National Congress  (ANC) in the early 1950s. In 1953 and 1954, Hashe served on the Transvaal Provincial Executive of the ANC, and became the first woman regional chairperson of the West …

… 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni  Jack Tambani. He enrolled at Mukhudura Junior Primary School and later went on to enroll at Sinthumele Secondary School in … in modern day Limpopo. In 1969, Sam passed his grade 8 and left school at an early age due to financial …

… to South Africa in 1893. He became a railway fitter and in 1902 helped found the first trades and Labour Council.In 1905 he became Amalgamated Society of Engineers(ASE) full-time organizer and this trade union had some branches in South Africa,he …

… Africa penniless, but within 10 years he was a millionaire and the Barnato Diamond Mining Company that he helped set up … rival of Cecil John Rhodes’ De Beers company. Rhodes and Barnato set out to dominate the diamond industry by … interests in the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company and became the owner of the French company. But his victory …

… of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of its Johannesburg branch. On 1 February 1909, … of his determination to resist the anti-Indian laws and placing all his assets at their disposal. He wrote to them: ‘My liabilities are roughly £2,000 and my assets £4,000.’7 After he went to prison, his brother …

… one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. Bertha was a … until she was about thirty years old, trained as a tailor and then started a tailoring business in Durban with her … to move out of the area. Mkhize joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers union (ICU) to fight against no notice …

… known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna and Kanana Mbuyabo. He received his early education at Msundulu Primary School and Nkwenkwezi Secondary School respectively. At Nkwenkwezi … to get the Students Representative Council established and recognised in the school. In and outside school he fought …

… He was inspired by the artworks in the houses he painted and took up painting designs and pictures on scarves in a small shop. He was discovered … there by John Mohl , who taught him basic principles and techniques. He read Groenewald’s book about leather …

… 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies in painting at … In 1967, he moved to South Africa with his wife Margaret and sons Paul and Theunis. They settled in Rosebank, Cape Town, in the Cape …

… before leaving to work. He was employed at several jobs and spent some years in prison until around 1976, when he … Khumalo . Konqobe credited Khumalo with being his mentor and a source of inspiration for the style and subject matter of his art. Still, Konqobe was a largely …

… a BA Honours degree specialising in Russian, French and Portuguese and also completed Diplomatic Training courses in different … European countries such as the UK, Norway, Germany and Russia. In 1976, Makhaya join the  African National …

… Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner  and his mother  joined other family members in South Africa … coming to Johannesburg.He was a lawyer in Johannesburg and he established his own practice. he was a co-founder with …

… the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. After studying first for a diploma in agriculture at Adams College and then beginning the study of law, he went to Johannesburg about 1941 and took a job as organising secretary for the African Bakers …

… Gaur Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National Congress  (ANC), he first made his … when he helped lead the Alexandra bus boycotts of 1943 and 1944. From the Alexandra branch of the ANC, Radebe moved …

… he studied engineering at the University of Natal then and spent eight years in Britain. Later he studied politics and economics at Ruskin College. Two of these years were … Oxford where he also became a member of the Draughtsman’s and Allied Technician’s Association. He returned to South …

… in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher and school principal in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then Cape Town. … chairman of the Coloured Advisory Council, set up in 1943, and was attacked as a quisling or traitor by radical … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977)|Gail M. Gerhart, Teresa Barnes, …

… member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling the weekly newspaper, The Guardian. He studied at the University of Cape Town and became an architect. In 1946 he was charged with … arising from his involvement in the Congress of the People and the adoption of the Freedom Charter. After being …

… Independent Labour Party as an Advisor to the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) of Clements Kadalie . He found the union already in a state of disintegration and was unable to reconcile its hostile factions. In … was a delegate of the ICU to the Non-European Conferences, and in 1943 he aided the African National Congress (ANC) in …

… of the  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1958 and a leader of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra Township, … College, Bantu High School in Newclare, Johannesburg, and began study for a bachelor's degree at Pope Pius XII … in Basutoland (now Lesotho). He joined the ANC in 1950, and in 1957, after working for several years as a laboratory …

… Gandhi ’s  Satyagraha  in 1913. On 29 October  Mudaliar  and her mother joined other women who went on a march to … Dundee, Ladysmith , Dannhauser, Pietermaritzburg and Durban before crossing the Transvaal border. At this time … it was against Asiatic law for her to cross this border, and she was arrested and sentenced to three months …

… graduated from Fort Hare with distinction in mathematics and physics and thereafter received, between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an …

… longtime activist in the  African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the late 1940s he served on the CPSA district … ofthe ANC. He defied the prohibition on attending meetings and was convicted of breaking his ban but successfully …

… Dr Phuthuma (also documented as Phutuma and Phatuma) Seoka was born in 1922 in Modjadji near … Duiwelskloof, Lebowa. Seoka left school in Standard VI and spent sixteen years in Johannesburg. In 1953 he established 'Seoka's Twin 'Products' and a herbalist trade in patent medicines and remedies. In …

… in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare, earning a B.A. degree. After teaching, he … of the 1960 Consultative Conference of African Leaders, and, although inactive, he was later arrested with others on the committee (and released on appeal) on charges of furthering the aims of …

… Oshakati in Oshana Region, Shikomba joined OPO in 1959 and subsequently Swapo in 1960. He joined the South West Africa Liberation Army (Swala) in 1966 and received military training at Omugulugwombashe in the … in the Omugulugwombashe battle on 26 August 1966 and was shot, captured and taken as a prisoner to Pretoria. …

… a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he worked as a labourer, a clerk, and a stevedore.He became a union organiser for the African … a leader of the 1952 Defiance Campaign in the eastern Cape and was later among the first-string accused in the Treason …

… role in the international struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This … support to the  African National Congress (ANC)  in exile and informed the Dutch public. In 1986 Braam was approached by leaders of the ANC in exile and asked to assist with Operation Vula. Braam went about …

… He matriculated at the Alexandra Senior Secondary School and went on to do a Graphic design and Fine Art Photography diploma at the Cape Town Technical College. In 1994 he started as a trainee writer and photographer for South Newspaper. He freelanced from 1995 …

… from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he studied for a BA and from 1970 to 1972, completed an LLB at the University … (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal), majoring in English and private law. He was involved with many clubs and societies at university and helped to organise activities …