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… Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family … 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group was left-wing and multi-racial, mostly … developed into a student group of the party around 1947. In 1942 Athol graduated as a civil engineer from Natal …

… Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents … Plaatje received his only formal education, a few years in the elementary grades. He remained at Pniel for several … studying further with the aid of the missionaries. In 1894 he went to Kimberley, where he found work as a …

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same … . The sculptor and painter, was born on 13 April 1935 in Sophiatown , Johannesburg. He often accompanied his … painter to work. During this time, the Black societies in South Africa were challenged by modernity and urbanity, …

… Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then … a member of the Student Representative Council (SRC) in 1971. When the university expelled SRC president Harry … p.64.|Sisulu, E, (2002), Walter & Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime , (David Phillip), p.383 …

… Peter Cyril Jones was born in 1950 on 7th of December in Somerset West in Western Cape . Jones after completing High School in 1976, …

… John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the …

… Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South African to be ordained in an established church. His journal of the return voyage …

… responsible for the establishment of the TEACH Museum in Empangeni and he served on the Advisory Board of that museum. He was a primer mover in the building of the new VM in 2001 in Eshowe.  Bozas has participated in numerous group …

… Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked as a factory worker, and later became a bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port …

… Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in  Durban  in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to …

… Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as … his father was headmaster. When his family moved to Soweto in 1963, Saoli enrolled at the Morris Isaacson School in Moroka. Saoli cultivated an interest in art inspired by …

… Tielman Roos was born in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South … when he was only 23 years old. He opened a law practice in Cape Town, but decided to move to  Pretoria , where he … at the statue of  Paul Kruger , which was situated in Prince's Park in Pretoria. A group of people had gathered …

… Johanna Hendrina Strydom.  Johanna Scheepers was born in 1915. During the depression of the 1930s Scheepers and her … the case with many Afrikaans women, she found a position in a clothing factory and later worked at the Bell Clothing factory. Scheepers became involved in the activities of the Garment Workers′Union (GWU) in 1933. …

… Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, …

… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and … law at the University of Utrecht, he left the country in 1764 to become a member of the Council of Justice in …

… Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary …

… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the … of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the … and [5] especially educational projects, including in 1985 the foundation of Jacob Marengo Tutorial College, whose …

… Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the petrol company, in the …

… children. She laid the foundation of health services in New Brighton location, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Sister Nginza was born Dora Jacobs in Cradock, Eastern Cape on a farm called Baviaanspoort on 17 October 1891. She enrolled at the Victoria Hospital in Lovedale near Alice, Eastern Cape after completing her …

… 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During this period he … Claudina de Villiers. Burger was elected as field cornet in 1881, and became part of the campaign against Nyabela, the … was later imprisoned. Burger was appointed as a commandant in 1885. The following year in 1886 he became a member of the …

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and America before settling in South Africa in 1880. He met JH Hofmeyr and formed a …

… while World War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan, East Rand Transvaal (now Gauteng ). A month earlier, on 12 February, her father was killed in a heroic attempt to save a fellow miner’s life. Her young … the 1922 miners strike took place. Her father participated in this strike. Her political activities were shaped by …

… Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg.  Selebi was the African National Congress … to the Soviet Union's World Federation of Democratic Youth in Budapest, Hungary, from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he was elected as leader of the African National …

… Ambrose Makiwane was born in Soweto. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. This, coupled with that his parents … school delayed his enrollment. Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high …

… James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a … and affected manners of dress marked him out as a showman. In 1913 he went to America, where he remained for about 10 …

… a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession after a few years, and became an interpreter in the magistrate's court in Aliwal North. In the 1890s he was ordained as a minister …

… Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of … education. Ngqawana began his musical career singing in traditional gatherings and weddings before learning to …

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according to Roux, for some years the only African Communist in South Africa. An able and dedicated organiser, he served, …

… a freelance journalist and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech degree at Peninsula Technikon, which he completed in 2001. Part of the course was a section on photojournalism. …

… South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town on 23 February 1974. He completed his secondary … national cricket team, the Proteas, at the Eden Gardens in Calcutta in the 1996/97 seasons. Since then Gibbs has cemented his …