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BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
… in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South Africa, and was also interested in restoring and preserving old buildings. Magdalena, together with a …
BiographyChristina Jasson
… the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and textile workers, leading several strikes. Her daughter … Trade unionist,…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
… experiences that she drew on for a series of woodcuts and monoprints. Several of these works contrast the intrusive … subject matter but also the use of…
Treaty Mahlouoe Mopeli
… Howell Mopeli. Despite the banishment of her partner and other leaders from Witzieshoek, there continued to be … The Mopeli’s were not restricted to the farm…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
… 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu. He attended the Burnside Community … photographer in Natal.. An Indian…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… (MDGSs) were perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to … in the midst of the United Nations…
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
… of the Transvaal African National Congress (ANC) and, in the early 1920s, a secretary-general of the African … Supreme Court, a teacher at Klipspruit…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
… he became deeply involved in the trade union movement and worked alongside Oscar Mpetha and Ray Alexander Simons among others. In 1954 he joined the …
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
… in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile Workers' … to the Natal executive committees of the…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… IMPACT [1] All national movements for freedom and justice spread ripples beyond their national boundaries. But some stand out as beacons guiding and…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
… Agrawal - Merchants, bankers, landowners, and shopkeepers www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrawal Ahir or … The caste members are mainly shopkeepers, and they…
Michael Mike Matsobane
… The Matsobane brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their … to live a Godly life. The brothers had been PAC members and…
BiographyLungile Kepe
… Campaign, 1952. Accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 and acquitted. Subsequently sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Banned after release. …
BiographyJoseph Morolong
… participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade … during the 1960 state of emergency. In 1963 he…
Lennox Madikane
… Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo … to death for sabotage. The others were…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
… Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set … She served as honorary secretary, chairperson, president and…
BiographyPhillmon Velangetshe Sangweni
… Empangeni district where he works as a sculptor of figures and animals in wood. He is particularly concerned with the depiction of Zulu cultural history, of…
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
… other soccer stars like Fanie Madida, Geelbooi Masango and Jury Bantwana. In 1991 he helped Blackpool reach the JPS … his team lost to Dynamos. He then moved…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
… was during this period that his interest in politics grew and he became a leader of Islamic students. In 1984 after … Western Cape branch of the United…
BiographyHendrik Andries Hanekom
… employed as a municipal official in the town of his birth and was later promoted to assistant town clerk. He was also interested in theatre and in 1912 made…
BiographyBheki Zacharia Mvulane
… in Katlehong Police Station fling Bheki against the wall, and when he crashed on the floor another officer trampled him on the head. He collapsed and never…
BiographyDr. Pholile Mpofu
… of dermatology tended to be neglected by black doctors, and felt she could have an effect in this field. She was sure … while working at the Chris-Hani…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… Extend and Defend Our Revolutionary Gains! President O. R. Tambo`s January 8th, 1981, Statement. Compatriots and Comrades, Fellow-fighters for the liberation…
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
… The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in 1938, and she explored Voortrekker themes at this time, more concerned with themes of hardship and suffering…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… provoked this movement were specific attacks by employers and the government: fare increases, the introduction of passes for women, and the imposition of …
BiographyKeable Mote
… at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in 1924 and subsequently became provincial secretary for the…
BiographyDoe Molefe
… early age. He is currently self-employed, running a cafe and fruit shop and making post-boxes. Molefe's post-boxes were the …
BiographyVictor V. T. Mbobo
… he participated in the founding of the Youth League and in 1947 was chosen as the league's delegate to a … in Prague. He spent four months touring Eastern…
BiographyThomas Kgope
… when he fell from the second floor of Catherine's studio and subsequently stayed with Catherine periodically until … an interest in art, Catherine gave him…
BiographyDilizantaba Mji
… Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of … participated in the organisation of…