SAHO global search

1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… to be released on the grounds of ill-health. He was also part of the Release Mandela Campaign that visited him at …

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1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… 1906 he joined the Natal Native Horse Regiment which took part in the suppression of the  Bambatha Rebellion . From …

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1927-2005

Kalushi Drake Koka

…  (SASO) resolved to mobilize the trade union movement as part of advancing the struggle. He became BAWU’s general …

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1873-1917

Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube

… Africans and Africans of neighbouring British colonies. Part of their effort led to the popularisation of Nkosi …

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1938-2002

Stephen Vukile Tshwete

… and Army Commissar of MK. In 1988 Tshwete became part of the NEC of the ANC, and joined the talks at Groote …

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… until 2002. From 1999 to 2006 he taught Business Ethics part-time at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, …

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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

… area and the broader Limpopo. In 2008 Alexander was part of a group that broke away and attempted to establish a …

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… inquiry was launched into the allegations of misconduct. Part of the investigation was into King Zwelithini's alleged …

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1875-1927

James E. Kwegyir Aggrey

… of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime …

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1940-1984

Gabriel Kee Kuboni

… was self-trained as a sculptor. According to his daughter one of the professors at the UN(D) arranged exhibitions of …

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1987

Johnson Ngwevela

… on the CPSA district committee for Cape Town. He was one of the first leaders banned under the Suppression of …

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1920

Lorna Peirson

… From 1963 - 1981 she was the teacher in charge of the one-year Special Art Teachers’ Course at the Ndaleni Training …

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1945

Pieter Dirk-Uys

… work. A creative writer, he has written in many genres. One his books, Trekking to Teema, became the first internet …

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1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… Hoogendyk died on 12 February 1990 in the United Kingdom, one day after the release of  Nelson Mandela . …

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1947-1974

Abram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro

… Peter and Moleseng Anna Tiro.  Tiro had two brothers and one sister. His mother was a domestic worker at Emmarentia in … by students under the new SRC, Tiro…

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1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… and Buthelezi became close friends. Buthelezi became one of Rowley’s articled clerks.  When the chieftaincy of the … was released. When Bram Fischer went…

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Kisten Moonsamy

… Kisten “Zed” Moonsamy was part of a remarkable generation of working class activists …

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1939-2025

Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn

… until his diplomatic posting. Peninsula Technikon is now part of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). … .  He monitored Zambia's general…

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1981

William Khanyile

… By then he was already interested in Marxism and took part in study circles on the issue. Very soon after, he … Khanyile and John Nkadimeng led a SACTU…

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1928-2012

Joe Mkhwanazi

… the party’s national executive committee.  Later he became part of the PAC’s military commission, the body that oversaw … dismantling Apartheid gathered pace…

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1944-2013

Mxolisi Mgxashe

… Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s Langa Township on 21 March …

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1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… time, the National Research Foundation (NRF) awarded him one of only three South African Population Research Units … While in Washington, he also had an…

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1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… to a mental institution where he committed suicide one year later. Advocate Maisels was a judge of the High … as “pre-eminent among his generation of…

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1887-1968

Frances Herman Gow

… enlisted in the American army in World War One and fought inFrance,then returned to the U.Sand taught …

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1886-1964

Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe

… with influence throughout the Transkei, he was known as one of the "fathers of the Bunga" and served successively on …

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Jean Powell

… of Architecture, University College, London and for a one year’s post Diploma in two dimensional and applied design …

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1887

John Mtini

… John Mtini was the 'Grand Old Man' of the trial who took part in the 1929 anti-pass campaigns, the struggles of the …

B-0149452

1938

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born … of Language in African Literature,…

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1929-1981

Joe Nzingo Gqabi

… experience in investigative journalism. Gqabi was one of two thousand political detainees after the 1960 … of the Congress of South African Students. In 1979…

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1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… to finish school before beginning a music career. But when one of the singers of the singing trio Joy went on maternity … Sello “Chicco” Twala, a partnership…

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