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BiographyJustice Zac Yacoob
… activities and negotiations that culminated in the first elected students' representative council. …
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
… Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… was established in Natal in 1948, he became its provincial secretary. With Jordan Ngubane and others in the Natal … ANC. An able administrator, Yengwa served…
BiographyVera Ponnen
… wages and conditions and against unjust laws. She was secretary of the Brewery and Mineral Workers Union, which was … in Natal in 1950. He was thus removed…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… Afrapix in Johannesburg . Later, Paul, Graham Goddard and Chris Ledochowski established darkrooms at Roodehek Studios …
BiographyJulius Nyerere
… Union (TANU), the nationalist party. In 1954, he was elected president of TANU and, by 1958, he entered the … the British in December 1961 and Nyerere was…
BiographyBarney William Ngakane
… of African leaders held in Johannesburg. A field secretary for the Institute of Race Relations in the early … of African leaders held in Johannesburg. A…
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
… the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation … Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… In 1896 Sprigg asked Stanford to become the Under-Secretary of Native Affairs an offer that he declined because … reduced. When Sprigg reinstated the powers…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… and in March an official agreement was signed. The workers elected 15 shop stewards – 3 for each department. Qabula was elected as one of the shop stewards…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
… and Allied Workers Union Following this, Bonhomme was elected Vice-President of the Furniture and Allied Workers … with Jerry Coovadia and Archie Gumede . He…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… his return to the country, at only 21 years of age, he was elected President of the Young Men's Indian Association in … the weekly Hindi in both Hindi and…
BiographyChristina Jasson
… born during the treason trial proceedings. She was acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to …
BiographyPhindile Mfethi
… unionist with the National Union of Textile Workers and Secretary of the IAS; detained from 10 May ’76 to 16 May ’77 …
BiographyVictor V. T. Mbobo
… the African National Congress (ANC) presidency. He was elected to the ANC national executive committee in December …
BiographyIsaiah MacDonald Maseko
… Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and elected to the ANC national executive committee in December …
BiographyStella Madge Damos
… Freedom Charter ( Eastern Cape ) in 1955. In 1954 she was secretary of Freedom Charter Consultative Committee and, in …
BiographyNana Sita
… He joined the Transvaal Indian Congress and became secretary of its Pretoria branch. During the Second World … He led a batch of resisters which included…
BiographyLord Kitchener
… hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary of state for war at the beginning of World War I … and reluctantly accepted an appointment to…
BiographyAllan Kirkland Soga
… paper published in Pretoria . He was a founder and secretary of the Bantu Union, a Cape voters' association, and … bureau agent and a road inspector,…
BiographyPhindile Fethi
… Unionist with the National Union of Textile Workers and Secretary of International Aid Society (IAS). He was …
The Rt. Rev. Joost de Blank presents a petition to the Secretary-General on behalf of the World Campaign for the Release of Sou
… The Rt. Rev. Joost de Blank presents a petition to the Secretary-General on behalf of the World Campaign for the …
US Secretary of State Colin Powell visits Sudan, followed two days later by the UN’s Kofi Annan in attempts to solve the Darfur
… US Secretary of State Colin Powell visits Sudan, followed two …
Libya agrees to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects by 6 April 1999. The date is confirmed in a letter to the UN Secretary-Gen
… 6 April 1999. The date is confirmed in a letter to the UN Secretary-Gen …
ArchiveA message from the Administrator-General of Namibia and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to all SWAPO personnel
… of Namibia and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to all SWAPO personnel …
BiographyHarold Cressy
… the Teachers' League of South Africa (TLSA) and was elected president of the league in June 1913. He was also elected first editor of the Educational Journal…
BiographySchalk Burger
… period he married Alida Claudina de Villiers. Burger was elected as field cornet in 1881, and became part of the … as a member of the Transvaal Executive…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
… closely with Robert Matji . In December 1949 he was elected to the ANC national executive committee. Until … stronger, however. In June 1954, just after he…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… for black physicians in South Africa. In 1926, the Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions (ABFM) … conference in Bloemfontein on 16 December…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
… importance of pre-school education. She served as honorary secretary, chairperson, president and honorary life president …