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… Josiah Tshangana Gumede was born on 9th October 1867 in Healdtown Village, Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. His father, John Gumede, and his mother … Josiah was given his father’s middle-name, Tshangana, in honour of their Zulu ancestry. Josiah Gumede’s ancestry …

… moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) from the mid-1930s to … took over the leadership. He had only elementary schooling in South Africa but studied for a short time in India. He became politically active in the mid-1920s and …

… August 1955 at Tauyatswala small village near Polokwane, in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Ramatlhodi's … completed his secondary education at Tembisa High in Tembisa Township,  Johannesburg . Upon completion of his … the University of the North (renamed University of Limpopo in 2003). The decision was made after he witnessed a …

… against reputed corrupt councillors and the unjust apartheid system was not taken into consideration during the … Maximum Prison, where they spent four years on death row. In 1986, State President P. W. Botha refused to intervene in … a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid. The World Council of Churches (WCC), South African …

… Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son … Charles Mda, a headman, peasant farmer and shoemaker in their district (Herschel). Peter and his siblings attended … his studies at the Catholic institutions of St Francis in Aliwal North and Mariazell, northeast of Matatiele. After …

… Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge was born in KwaZulu-Natal on  29 June 1952. She attended Magog and … matriculated at the Inanda Seminary, a girls’ high school in Durban . She then studied at the Natal and Fort Hare Universities where she obtained a degree in Social Science, majoring in Philosophy and Sociology. In …

… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her early childhood. … and then the Public Secondary School, both of which were in the location. Her father was a garment worker who had … reserved for White labourers only. Her experiences in the Germiston location triggered her interest in …

… outside Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in 1953. At university he involved himself in student …

… now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of … explorers who are believed to have settled there in 1462 [i] [ii] . Historically, the archipelago was used as … .  Parliamentary elections continued, however, and in 1985 several independent candidates were elected on the PAICV …

… Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated … as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to South Africa with his Scottish wife in1895, entered public life in 1904 when he became the first black person to be elected …

…  Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near Caledon . After completing secondary … Illse proceeded to study for her Masters Degree in Maths and Education which she successfully completed. In … B, (2012), Obituary: Ilse Naudé: stalwart of anti-apartheid struggle , from the Timeslive , 08 January, …

… Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to Johannesburg …

… of Art Communications, 1983-84. He has participated in several group exhibitions in SA and in Swaziland. In 1982 he was awarded First Prize in Sculpture …

… Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after … his trial in 1944. He spent much of the 1950s protesting Apartheid legislation such as the Group Areas Act although he …

… Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a leading political activist, in 1953. Indres was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and he became Secretary in 1953. He was elected an Executive Committee member of the Transvaal Indian Congress in 1958, and he was one of the founders of the Human Rights …

… Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then moved to Soweto . Manzini suffered from … polio as a child and as a result spent close to four years in the hospital until the age of 6. Manzini’s parents, who …

… was also the first President of the Liverpool Sketch Club. In 1880 he achieved the distinction of having one of his pictures hung "on the line" at the RA in London. In 1888 he came to SA to give painting instruction at various …

… 1886 Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she visited Cape …

… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal … was a banker and her mother a nurse. Mazibuko grew up in Durban and matriculated at St Mary’s DSG in Kloof in 1997. She pursued a Bachelor of Music at the … Roussouw, M., (2009). Being black in the DA , from the Mail and Guardian , 26 September, …

… Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a …

… on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of … within the strict tenets of Dutch Calvinism. Kruger fought in the Battle at Vegkop in 1836, where they fought against Mzilikazi. Shortly after …

… Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil. President … vendor.  At the age of 14, he got his first formal job in a copper processing factory as a lathe operator. Lula …

… a pacifist. She did not agree with British imperialism in South Africa or with the South African (Anglo-Boer) War …  that was fought to achieve it. She opposed racism in whatever form, whether against Boers or Black people, both of whom were ‘underdogs’ in the early part of the 20th century. Olive was the ninth of …

… On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for … permanent work. Her exposure to union documents resulted in her familiarity with the Labour Law and the conditions that were facing workers in their various workplaces. After her stint with the Garment …

… June Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union movement, Nala worked at the Frame … textile plant. She described her first day on the job in The Road to Democracy in South Africa : We were taken into …

… Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British … a British colony, where she attended Ellis Robins School in Salisbury. She grew up on a tobacco farm in the Umvukwes (now Mvurwi) district in the north of the …

… Hlaku Rachidi was born on 11 April 1944 at Ga-Nchabeleng in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He was … other siblings. His parents were both school teachers in the area. He spent most of his early years staying with relatives in Limpopo and later attended several high schools, including …

… troops at the beginning of World War I Commissioned in the Royal Engineers, in 1886 Kitchener was appointed governor of the British Red Sea territories and subsequently became commander in chief of the Egyptian army in 1892. In 1898 he crushed the …

… Enos Molapo Makhubedu was born at Eersterus, near Pretoria in 1938. He grew up in Pilgrim’s Rest where he completed his higher primary school studies in 1951 at the Charles Max Secondary School. From 1951 to …

… Leo Francois Rbc was born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the various art societies in SA into a single academy. His efforts were untiring but …