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… trained as a potter in the Ceramic Workshop at the ELC Art and Craft Centre, together with Ephraim Ziqubu, Joel Sibisi and L. Mabaso.  These potters all had a similar approach to … Mbatha often chose the bowl form to decorate with figures and animals.  His work shown on the 1970 exhibition entitled …

… Bloc, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) leadership and the Indian Agent-General, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, to unite … provide an opportunity to discuss Indian housing problems and the need for proper amenities in the predominantly … insisted that all vacancies had been filled. No Indian worker was re-employed by Dunlop. 1944 April, Radicals form …

… way that the apartheid regime managed to do. The breadth and intensity of its arsenal of weapons scaled new heights … the many forms of repression evolved by apartheid forces and used by them from the time of the accession to power of … of the Labour Relations Amendment Act designed to curb worker power. Large numbers of trade unionists have fallen …

… (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting … Cape. He attended the 1956 World Youth Festival in Warsaw and also visited Britain and Hungary. In 1957, when he 'was chief sales agent for  New …

… of a young girl growing up in rural South Africa. Tamana and her four sisters had to help work on their father’s plot, before and after school, where they cultivated potatoes, pumpkins, peas, cabbages, and chillies, as well as keeping some livestock. Every …

… Fanio (also documented as Fanozi and called Chicken Man) Mkize was born in 1950. When Mkize … his work outside the Old Supreme Court, Pietermaritzburg and at flea markets in Pietermaritzburg and Durban, often dressed in a chicken outfit. He also sells …

… was born in Springs, Gauteng. He is a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, … Since 1973 he has participated in group exhibitions in SA and abroad. He was instrumental in organising exchange exhibitions between Durban and various cities abroad. He was in charge of the …

… Chelsea School of Art, London.  He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts. During the … for the establishment of the TEACH Museum in Empangeni and he served on the Advisory Board of that museum. He was a … 2001 in Eshowe.  Bozas has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in South Africa and is represented in …

… in Lesotho , where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered the Companions Catholic Order, thereafter teaching until 1960. During the 1970s and the 1980s, Sister Ncube helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was elected president of the Federation of …

… was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, … with his first band known as the Band in Blue. Kippie and the Band in Blue played for sheebens and slum audiences. Although, these people he played for …

… in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, he became a teacher and active member of the African National Congress (ANC) in … listed as Defendant Number 64 in the 1956 Treason Trial, and released on bail of £50 on 21 December 1956.  He later …

… carved walking sticks during a visit to his kraal and commissioned him to produce a carved Madonna. This marked … carved relief panels, a three metre high crucifix and fourteen statuettes of the Stations of the Cross. In 1973 and 1974 he worked at Hammarsdale in Natal and from 1975 to …

… moving with his mother to the Malay Camp in Kimberly and becoming apprenticed to atailor at age 14.He joined the at the age 18 Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU),the International … later became the Communist  Party of South Africa (CPSA ) and despite being a coloured person,the South African Native …

… The Rand Daily Mail , Pretoria News , The Sunday Times and The Star . His cartoons were politically loaded, and served the purpose of some of the publications at the … in 1990. He still does freelance work for magazines and advertisements, while also taking private commissions. …

… Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial … during the apartheid era. He was also a brilliant swimmer, and served as a lifesaver at Mnandi Beach and the swimming pools in the Black townships in Cape Town. …

… attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in Johannesburg in 1976. In that … same year he also attended Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto and studied under   Sydney Kumalo . In 1977 he studied at the Open School under Nats Mokgosi and from 1978 to 1980 studied under Bill Ainslie, Ricky …

… on 29 March 1983 regarding Mr Mzolo's death detention and death the minister of law and order,Mr Louis Le Grange,started 'There is no record that … person has been detained in terms of security legislation,and unless further information is made available it is …

… He was born and died at Ndwedwe, Natal. He attended school in the Ndwedwe … Award for Imaginative Work in 1985.  He was a printmaker and sculptor of wood. He admired the work of Michael Zondi and said that Surrealism influenced his own development. He …

… born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa in 1956. For six years in the 1920s and 1930s he was principal of Wilberforce Institute in …

… with a statement criticising the actions of the state and calling for an end to pass laws. 30 March, The state … Dawood Seedat , Billy Nair , Kay Moonsamy , M.P. Naicker , and many more at the Durban Central Prison, and soon his … Dr Monty Naicker appealed to 'every Indian businessman and worker, lawyer and doctor, bus driver and bus owner, market …

… printing house that printed The Guardian went bankrupt, and Fred Carneson approached him to take over the printing of … choice, as he was married to Ike Horovitch’s sister, and had previously done printing jobs for the Communist Party … refused. He then purchased second hand printing equipment, and moved to Shelley Road in Salt River to begin printing The …

… in an era of increased confrontation between the state and political organisations fighting for liberation. The … the country. Biko was detained in Port Elizabeth, tortured and in a state of semi-consciousness, taken by road to … development of the trade union movement in the country. Worker strikes were suppressed through labour laws, pass laws …

… artist. He had an early art training in Paris in 1890, and arrived in South Africa  with his father in 1902. He … a living from his art. In 1915 he married Pauline Harper and they had four children. He later went to Port Elizabeth … of SASA. Early in his career Wiles painted in pastels and water colours, but later almost exclusively painted in …

… students or lecturers at the university at the time, and her father, a member of the South African Communist Party … in the campus. Baleka was then sent to boarding school and she matriculated from the Inanda seminary in 1967. Baleka … then went on to Lovedale Teacher Training College in Alice and completed in 1973. She went to teach in Durban where she …

… was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest and trial of Dorothy and her husband Errol. She lives in …

… South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal education at Boloto. He became a lay preacher and in 1880 was ordained minister in the Wesleyan Methodist … Tile's influence over his congregation was strong, and he soon had a falling out with his European superior, who …

… Gallery.  In 1991 he painted a mural at Hebox, Hammarsdale and another for Gadaleni High School, Isandhwana, and in 1992 a mural for Ilanga. In 1990 he went to the … giant murals which depicted scenes from rural villages and townships and SA. He is represented in public and private …

… he attended classes in art run by the Technikon Natal; and in 1994 he attended printing making workshops run by the Durban artists, Greg Hayes, John Roome and Marlene Wasserman. He worked in oil, oil pastel, watercolour and he was a printmaker, producing linocuts and woodcuts. He …

… Morning Post during the South African War of 1889-1902, and was taken prisoner in Natal when the train that he was … under the command of General Louis Botha. He escaped and rejoined the British forces as an honorary member of the … During his long career as statesman he held South Africa and its people in deep affection and General J.C. Smuts was …