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BiographyDonald Thumamina Mboto
… Kokstad and had not yet secured formal employment at the time of his passing. A gentle and considerate person, Mboto …
BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
… and constantly attempted to recruit people. At the time that his banishment order was issued in 17 October 1960, …
BiographyChris Qwazi
… started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… other violent crimes. Tsotsis or gangsters were the small-time criminals. They often had "respectable" jobs during the … fight each other on the weekends…
BiographyRaymond Arthur Dart
… the Taung Child , who was only three years old at the time of death. He named it Australopithecus africanus - " … Africa was. These theories, revolutionary…
BiographyJohn Beaver "J.B" Marks
… were not good at his college. They were not allowed time off to go visiting, punished very frequently, and the … (KUTV) in Moscow.In the early 1935 Marks…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
… asylum by the authorities, unknown to them at the time that Lesotho was in on good footing with Apartheid South …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… Maria, and step-siblings. The racial divides of the time prevented his parents from marrying and Tsafendas was … left for Canada as a seaman on a Greek…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… youth congresses were established and operating during the time of the first state of emergency . 28 March 1987 saw … Clearly SAYCO, like other organizations…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… the beating of Biko in an interview with the American Time magazine. Biko’s brutal death made him a martyr in the … Government to remain in power to face the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… phenomenon, as the impressive growth of football over time clearly demonstrates. The first documented matches took … the Suzman Cup (1935), and the Godfrey…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… over the members’ heads. Popular perceptions at the time were that AZAPO was racist. While this approach seemed … collaborate with the authorities. (…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… revived underground party urged Mabhida to undertake full-time union work. In the next decade, he organised scores of … one of Mabhida's daughters, Nokuthula…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… those students who were striking. It was during this time that Dr Ponnusamy encountered members of the African … commitment to public service continued, and…
BiographyMarapo Seopa
… for purposes of issuing out banishment orders at the time. …
Brett Eloff
Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa. He began his career in…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… all who like you believe in Freedom For All to accept the challenge of apartheid and solemnly to resolve that somewhere … a spirit of resisting this tyranny,…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… t was in 1996 that a court challenge led to the first government provision of a cheap … basic water supply to the destitute. The person behind the challenge…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… to study at TÁ¼bingen University in (West) Germany, a time which would be crucial not only in the development of … on his life and his political ideas, and…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… her banning orders by attending a meeting. At the time she was a senior medical officer in charge of the … for Black Research and a member of the editorial…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… was to document the political developments of the time and was subjected to security raids. He returned his … to engage in a personal dialogue with his…
BiographyMabel Palmer
… for Women in London, England, from 1908 to 1915. At a time when lecturers were segregated according to gender and … position she held from 1945 to 1955. She…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
… few letters or visitors. Typical of the government of that time, their appeal was dismissed and their incarceration – … whose gender never became an…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… that the Soviets could approach. It was also during this time that he met his first wife, British-born Janet Coggin … in the Armaments Board building in 1973…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… he was released from prison and settled in Maseru. By this time Mphahlele gave orders to APLA operatives that the armed … University of Lesotho and…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… school in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. She found him part time jobs, scrubbing and polishing floors and gardening in … dishes and he took on odd jobs as a…
BiographyPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
… of Trade and Industry from 1996 until 1999, during which time she also was a founding member of the Guguletu Community …
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
… to Makhanya that he had lived way beyond his ‘expected’ time. The death of his brothers before the age of 30 …
BiographyArthur Maimane
… and joined Reuters in 1961. He became the first full-time black staffers at Reuters. Reuters sent him to East …
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
… hospitalised again after he burnt his hands and face. This time he had mistakenly refilled a heater with petrol instead …