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Alex Moumbaris
Alex Moumbaris was born in Egypt to French parents and later became a naturalised Australian. He worked as a trade unionist and came to South Africa in 1973. …
BiographyMichael Ngweyi
Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2009. On 16 August 2012 Michael was killed at scene 1 after being…
BiographySitelega Meric Gadlela
Sitelega Meric Gadlela (50) was from Dvokolwako in Swaziland. He began working for Lonmin in 1989 and was with the company for 23 years. Mr Gadlela was killed…
BiographyBerney Perez
Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. He worked as an office machine technician while studying…
BiographyMichael Cassidy
South African Christian leader, writer and founder of Africa Enterprise, renowned for his initiatives at ecumenism, and reconciliation on personal, church and…
Bellington Mampe
Bellington Mampe was a Poqo activist, He died in hospital while in custody.Mr Bellington Mampe died in September 1963 after being detained for 140 days at the…
James Hamakwayo
The early records that were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 under the 180-day…
BiographyWycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi
President of the All African Convention (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later…
BiographyMary Agard Pocock
Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four years later…
BiographyAlson Ntshangase
Ntshangase was born at Nongoma, Zululand. He attended art classes at KwaBazini CP School; he did his secondary schooling at KwaZide High School; he had to…
BiographyMakhosandile Mkhonjwa
Makhosandile Mkhonjwa (28) was from Bizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after…
BiographyThabiso Mosebetsane
Thabiso Mosebetsane (49) was from Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He started working at Lonmin in 2008 and lived in Nkaneng informal settlement. He left behind…
BiographyHerschelle Herman Gibbs
Herschelle Gibbs, multi-talented South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town on 23 February 1974. He completed his secondary education at…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
BiographyMichael Davis
Michael Davis was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On completing his schooling in Johannesburg, Davis served his compulsory one-year…
Fenuel Mogatusi
Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was…
BiographyThys Dullaart
Dullaart completed his National Diploma in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a fine arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National…
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
BiographyGwede Mantashe
Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… the message that has come from every corner of our land that victory is certain. We have confronted death and … feed the nation, in the struggle for the…
BiographyTony Sithembiso Yengeni
Sithembiso Tony Yengeni was born in Cape Town and grew up in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his matric at Fort Beaufort college in Cape…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
Martha Helena Cillié was born on 22 April 1866 in Wellington (SA). She was the daughter of Charl Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena Marais. She came…
BiographyMaritz Barrymore
Maritz Barrymore was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He trained as a painter from 1950-1953 at the University of Rhodes, Eastern Cape,…
BiographyStanley Silwana
Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended…
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… country and its peoples - all its peoples. It is a varied land of snowcapped mountain peaks, of deserts and subtropical …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… Government passed on a request to Council to set aside land between Lenasia and Lawley for a drive-in cinema. The …
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
Honorine Margaret (Mabel) Withers was born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa…
BiographyEsther Franks
Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary…