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… to the Students' Representative Council and served as its president from 1952 to 1954. He was also vice-president … of South African Students (NUSAS) in 1953 and 1954, and its President for the next two years. In 1953 he was awarded … Westville (UDW - now a part of the UKZN) which made him its Chancellor in 1989. He also received honorary degrees …

… - just as forced removals came into effect.With all its pupils now living elsewhere, the school was now forced to … the new school at Khayalethu was named Percy Mdala High. Its motto: ‘There’s light through education.’In Knysna, Percy …

… Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA) , serving on its finance committee. Soon after joining,  however, she became disillusioned with its executive and helped to establish an APDUSA dissident …

… from 1951 until 1954. Letlaka was a prominent in the early African National Congress Youth League, he later …

… His order was withdrawn on 21 September 1967.  In the early 1990s, prior to his death, Hani lived in a small …

… Mokabe did not return home when most exiles did in the early 1990s. Mokabe’s last days were not happy. He was found …

… area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young African men of his … the apartheid government's pass law system had reached its most comprehensive and oppressive form. The … had become the primary site for apartheid-era executions. Its gallows would see more judicial killings than any other …

… the international leagues where it was excluded due to its racist policies. At first, Asvat and his fellow teammates … Under his leadership the league had grown enormously. At its foundation in 1977, the league had less than a dozen … Black Community Programmes were a key component of the early BC movement. In order to achieve the goal of infusing …

… the myriad images of kinbaku, erotic rope bondage.  In her early career she was also involved in teaching art part time. …

… Israelites. Mgijima’s most significant prophecy came in early 1919 during one of his church services. He stood in …

… he married. They had four children before divorcing in the early 1960s. He had a brief second marriage to a Portuguese …

… Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the …

… and was instructed ‘to go back to her father’s kraal.’ In early 1950, the banishment of Makwena Matlala was advocated …

… Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born …

… Where the first Chief Kora lived is unknown, but in early times, most Korana lived near the Gariep, Vaal and … After the 1994 change of government, it was given back its original name, Gariep. For many centuries the early … at Kenhardt, but the handful of police and burghers were too few to protect a 330 km stretch of land. This eventually …

… Modise should undergo military training in order to lead its military personnel. He was also charged with the … where he was involved in the re-organisation of MK and its training programmes. He served as a commander of MK from … Years of hard work as a soldier and a politician took its toll on Modise's health. In 1992 he suffered a mild …

… a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, its foremost theoretician, as well as a member of MK’s High … Committee who opposed dissolving the Party in 1950. After its dissolution he worked tirelessly to reconstitute the … also worked as a correspondent of The Guardian through all its apparent transformations under successive bannings …

… abiding passion for, and interest in, Mitchell’s Plain, its people, its neighbourhoods and the constant struggle against a wide …

… part in student politics at Livingstone and was elected to its Student Representative Council. After completing her … drawn into the military structures of the ANC and joined its military wing  Umkhonto we Sizwe . As an MK cadre, …

… missionaries.  Lumumba was intelligent and used to ask too many problematic questions [2] . Lumumba was ambitious …

… was fired from her job at Housecraft School for taking too much interest in sports and not enough in the girls she …

… to develop the love of music. He had to grow up at an early age because of the passing of his father.    In 1975, …

… served the commerce of theatre in this country as well as its art to a degree not before experienced. Her personality … a large civic theatre, she essayed to open it, staging as its first offering a fine production of Robert Bolt's A Man … Fiddler on the Roof in Johannesburg, the musical and its universal appeal was an established hit worldwide. Tevye …

… sabotage sites for MK and draft a disciplinary code for its guerrillas.Goldreich was arrested at the farm on 11 July … Bezalel Academy where he also taught and became its head of industrial and environmental design for over two … of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people,comparing its policies to apartheid.Goldreich briefly returned to South …

… of the African National Congress (ANC).  This coupled with early experiences of interacting with people of all races, … institutions was trying to find a way of adapting its religious practises and observances while being …

… Indian Congress (TIC) in Fordsburg, Johannesburg.   Its faculty included many leaders and activists in the … Hutchinson and Dennis Brutus . He had to leave school early to look for a job as his brother, Indres Naidoo, was …

… the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial that …

… revived Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1970, serving on its executive from the late 1970s on and contributed … to the popular rebuilding of the Congress movement, its values, outlook and programme, after its long years of repressed silence in the 1960s. By the late …