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… Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of the …

… Accustomed as we have become to the animal savagery of the apartheid system and therefore to swift and unnatural death, … the poor, the oppressed, the exploited, and the brutalised in southern Africa. When he died, a beacon of hope was … Olof Palme consistently argued against the insanity of the apartheid system. He showed that it is incompatible with all …

… KwaZulu-Natal. He is a sculptor of figures and he works in wood. He attended school at the Umgeni Mission Station and … College.  He then went to Ndaleni Training College in Richmond, KZN to train as an art teacher. He taught art at a higher primary school in KwaMashu.  He has participated in group exhibitions from …

… was focused on the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid government. Under the ban, he was restricted to his …

… Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on … and his mother a housewife. After passing Standard 6 in 1942, he moved to Johannesburg. However, he continued to …

… Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. … became the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda, in the late 1840s. She wanted a clear separation from the … 2011]|Mohapi, M. S, (2011),  The unbroken chains of apartheid: South Africa ,United States of America, p.126. …

… University of Zululand . She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Science (BSc) and left the country in 1976 to complete her MB ChB at the University of Bristol in 1978. During the 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became active in …

… Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following his matriculation from the William Pescod High School in 1975, he worked for the Department of Manpower until 1981. In 1982, Benny moved to Johannesburg where he worked in the …

… Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki Memorial …

… Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and … passed with honours. He completed his practical training in coal mines in the Saar region and in Silesia and began work for the …

… Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen was born in 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near Winburg, where he joined the … with five others from among the Voortrekker element in Transorangia, he was imprisoned at Colesberg in 1846 for …

… a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a position he held until 2002. He headed the … which ran the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, and was instrumental in establishing the permanent electoral commission, which he …

… son of Henry Charles Curson, was born on 22 September 1892 in Upper Umzimkulu, KwaZulu Natal. His schooling was completed at Michaelhouse in Balgowan, KwaZulu Natal and he received his professional training at the Royal Veterinary College in London from 1911 to 1914. During this time he won 14 …

… Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of … his day at Uppsala University where he earned his degree in linguistics, literature, and history in 1925..Hammarskjöld studied an economics degree in 1928, a …

… a medical doctor. He attended the Bishops Diocesan College in Rondebosch from 1963 to 45. He completed an MB ChB degree at the University of Cape Town for in 1951. While at UCT his political career began to take shape. He became active in the affairs of the United. In 1949 he stood for Student …

… the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the University of Cape Town in …

… Michael Sedgwick was born on the 20th February 1958 in Claremont in the Western Cape. He grew up in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats. His school career started …

… Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his …

… Clements Kadalie was born in April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi . He was the second born son … to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882 ”“ 1964, Vol. 2, Hope and challenge , …

… Johannes de Klerk was born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de … and Higher Education Diploma. He was actively involved in student politics. From 1925 to 1926 De Klerk was chairman … Workers’ Protection Union aimed at fighting communism in workers’ circles on the Rand. He was appointment in …

… SA Painter John Thomas Baines was born on 27 November 1820 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England (often reffered to as Thomas … at Horatio Nelson’s Classical and Commercial Academy. In 1836 he began an apprenticeship with a coachbuilder. However, he soon rejected this profession in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter …

… William H."Bill" Andrews was  born in Suffolk, England, on 20 March in 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13 years old,he immigrated to South Africa in 1893. He became a railway fitter and in 1902 helped found …

… Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and … crossed the Natal-Transvaal border and was sentenced in January 1911 to six weeks in prison. He requested to join his father in the first batch …

… Lionel Bazil Davis was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between …

… Tabata (known as  I.B. Tabata)  was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. … Hare for some time, he left the university to seek work in Cape Town in 1931. He became employed as a truck driver … to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964. Vol 4. Hoover Institution Press, …

… Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni … forced removals saw his family relocating to  Diepkloof in Soweto where subsequently attended Orlando West High …

… Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape . Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape she was …

… and his wife, Emma Sophie Jegge. She was born in Pretoria on 11 September 1897.  After matriculating at … School Theiler spent a year at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown and from there went to the South African College in Cape Town, from where she graduated with a BSc degree in …

… Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver, died … trained as a tailor and then started a tailoring business in Durban with her brother, also a tailor. She stayed in …

… Dorothy Ruth Boxall was born on 19 July 1895 in King William's Town , Eastern Cape , South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South Africa. She studied under Prof. P.R. Kirby of the … Department of Music at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). In 1934 she was …