SAHO global search

1940

Yusuf Joe Jacobs

… mining teams. Jacob’s mother was Zubeida Carr. During the war years the family moved to Durban. His family, involved in … At the time, the region was…

B-0073817

Winston Field

… when he went for military service during the Second World War. In 1957 he was elected Federal MP for Mtoko under the … Tobacco Association; army serviceman…

B-0149215

1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… artists’ colony at Laren, Holland until outbreak of World War 1. Thereafter she moved to London, and began her studies …

B-0008300

1892

Herbert Henry Curson

… in the Department of Native Affairs. During World War II Curson served as a captain in the SA Defence Force for …

B-0007967

1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… South Africa might have found itself in a bloody civil war. The public owes a great debt of gratitude to the …

B-0076375

1933

Allister Sparks

… and the Pen’ Image source Sparks labelled himself as the “war correspondent” for The Washington Post, The Observer and …

B-0124819

1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… worked with ‘non-white’ ex-servicemen who returned from war to find the same social barriers in place. Altman and her …

B-0007788

1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War. The Verwoerd family settled in Wynberg, Cape Town for … which were seen as a threat to Afrikaners…

B-0009202

1852-1917

Isaac Williams Wauchope

… Hoek near Uitenhage on the 17th of July 1852 during the War of Mlanjeni. [15] Mlanjeni was a powerful and influential prophet who rallied the amaXhosa to war…

B-0125334

1941-1978

Rick Turner

… earlier been to South Africa when he fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War . Rick grew up in Stellenbosch, Western Province on a …

B-0009169

John Smith Moffat

… Pioneer Column provoked Lobengula into the First Matabele War, Moffat fell out with Rhodes. In 1893 he exposed the … Methuen.|Martin Meredith, M. (2007),…

B-0148824

Pauline Podbrey

… was not very strong. At the end of the 1930s, with  World War II  starting in Europe, militancy and awareness was …

B-0068314

1941-2011

Ian Mkhize

… songs and vowing to kill him. When they began their war chant "usuthu, usuthu", Mkhize, his wife Eunice and four …

B-0064851

1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… the Bonny Island oil terminal. Nigeria experienced a civil war between 1967 and 1970, and during the conflict, Saro-Wiwa …

B-0098638

1960

Penelope Jane Dunlop

… career. In 1988 Powers performed at a charity event for war orphans in Zimbabwe , where she shared the stage with …

B-0096314

1938

Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn

… . When her father joined the army to fight in World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances Elizabeth moved out of the …

B-0009229

1920-2008

Brian Percy Bunting

… an air mechanic and information officer during the World War Two.After his return he served as assistant national …

B-0007899

1931

Raymond Ackerman

… Gus, founded the Ackermans chain after the First World War with two army buddies . Raymond Ackerman re-invented his … Herber won that round, because by 1946…

B-0007770

1892-1969

Bertha Solomon

… the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II . In 1958 she retired from active politics. She was … the South African Women's Auxiliary…

B-0150747

1850-1913

Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer

… the Cape Colony. After the outbreak of the South African War, Sauer tried to persuade some Afrikaners in the Cape not …

B-0148773

1924-1998

Alan McLeod Cormack

… the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak of World War One. The Cormack family moved around the country a fair …

B-0144660

Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he resumed his medical studies and qualified with a … Foundation and of the Medical Campaign…

B-0095464

1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… an area on the way to Pietermartizburg. The Second World War interrupted his schooling. Together with his cousins he had to tend cattle and work on the farm…

B-0125809

1954

Oprah Winfrey

… maid, and her mother was a slave. I feel validated by the war that the butler and his entire generation fought in their …

B-0149794

1911-1963

Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka

… States of America drew up the Atlantic Charter as a post war peace and security charter. The Atlantic Charter …

B-0008652

1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… hostels were, however, bombed during the  Second World War (1939-1945) . She returned to South Africa in 1943 and …

B-0008067

1792-1852

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

… His departure had been delayed by the Sixth Frontier War. Potgieter moved inland to the northern Free State where …

B-0068319

1935

Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs

… Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray, had arrived as an infant. Both of …

B-0008976

1962

Greg Marinovich

… concentrate on writing a non-fiction book about the hostel war and the road to democracy. He is now once again …

B-0008447