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… justice and peace. This past year marked a turning point in our struggle for the liberation of our people from the yoke of apartheid tyranny. As a result of the victories scored … in mind. These are the total abolition of the system of apartheid, and not its reform or amendment, and its …

… It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; … feasibility of a front. These were manifest opposition to apartheid and the constitutional reform proposals; and … and mines, schools, colleges, and universities, houses and sports fields, churches, mosques and temples, to fight for …

… He was born in Durban. In 1983 he obtained a BA(FA) from University of Durban Westville (UDW); in 1988 an MA(FA) cum laude and in 1989 a Higher Diploma in …

… with a teaching diploma, Britten could only obtain a post in the Karoo town of Middelburg. Undeterred he organised for the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA) there and in surrounding areas. He later gained a teaching post at Luckoff High School in Stellenbosch, not too distant from his home town, Paarl, …

… Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven … a communication medium. He received his primary education in the Pietersburg district at Ga-Madiba, Mashashane Lutheran … diploma at Kilnerton Institution, a Methodist college in Pretoria . Through private and full-time study he later …

… Gaur Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National Congress  (ANC), he first made his mark in 1941 when, as secretary for mines in the Transvaal ANC, he …

… Charles Templeman Loram was born in Pietermaritzburg in May 10 in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… William George Ballinger was born on 21st of September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British …

… People of South Africa: Today will be indelibly imprinted in the history of our country. If we, who are gathered here … today will mark the commencement of the transition from apartheid to democracy. Our people, from every corner of our … will set our country on the road to democracy. Inasmuch as apartheid has been declared a crime against humanity and the …

… This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI When Berni … categorized or placed into a specific box is apparent in the complex layers of Searle’s work; characterised by a … concerned with the complexities of identity and belonging in relation to language, race, colour, gender and the History …

… Joseph Booth was born in 1851 in Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, …

… Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef was born on 13 August 1886 in Pretoria from Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he started his art classes. … Pierneef family decided to move back to the Netherlands in 1901 where Hendrik continued his schooling. This …

… National Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe was president of the Cape ANC and chief organiser of the Defiance Campaign in the eastern Cape in 1952. He was born at Qumbu in the Transkei in 1919 and …

… Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne . The Township of … destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo went to school in Hammanskraal up to Standard 8 before leaving to focus on … 23 May, p.17.|Town reporter (1980) ‘Teffo’s work praised in America’, Pretoria News 24 November.|Konya, P. (1981) …

… Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until …

… at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American Body … became Adams College, but was suspended for rebelliousness in 1913, before completing standard seven. Champion left the … school that year and was employed as a Native constable in Johannesburg. He retired from service after acting as a …

… Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke , Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in …

… Bee Berman was born in 1949 in Cape Town ,  Western Province (now Western Cape).After her … as a stage designer and actress at The Space Theatre in Cape Town. From 1980, she worked as a theatre and news …

… Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and …

… Badsha and the accompanying launch of further book titles in the Social Identities South Africa Series are therefore … the racial maze created over a century of colonialism, apartheid and what he calls his own "Indianness". People and … identities, in South Africa. The racial geography of apartheid continues to reverberate strongly in democratic …

… Born in Queenstown in 1833, Ruth Prowse is known for her significant … Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her parents who were English immigrants. In 1902, at the age of 19, Prowse went abroad to study and …

… Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district in what is today the Eastern Cape. In 1964 he matriculated at …

… Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family … with both their father and grandfather fighting in the Anglo Boer War , their mother being held in a concentration camp during the war and their father …

… Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first … After matriculating at the Diocesan School for Girls in Grahamstown, Wood was trained as a teacher. Initially she acted as tutor for two cousins in Johannesburg before leaving for an extended tour of …

… Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her independent thinking suggested she pursue a career in medicine but she soon took up politics. When she was about …

… Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national household name …

… 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near Ventersdorp, western … Transvaal (now North West Province ). Her father worked in Johannesburg and they lived in Sophiatown . At the age of seven her mother returned to …

… Nomava Eslinah Shangase was born in Pondoland on 9 May 1931. Shangase qualified as a nurse at King Edward Hospital in Durban . As a nurse, in South Africa, she participated actively in the struggle …

… Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th  of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the founding of …

… Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time … the banning of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1950, she joined the staff of the Guardian newspaper and …