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… Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for … to class politics and the national liberation struggle, as well as an acute experience of oppression growing up in District …

… was his birth mother. Physically, Tsafendas passed easily as white and was sent to a white boarding school in South … one day of becoming a rebel himself. Back in Mozambique as a teenager, Tsafendas was listed as a Communist by the Portuguese colonial authorities after …

… and is said to have had a big showman personality as he was loved by many of his peers and followers. He became … he was also working for the South African magazine Drum as a circulation manager. Part of his international acclaim … Africa. Mrwebi’s genre of music was often referred to as African jazz and township jive and he was a very important …

… for Johannesburg in 1928. After his arrival, he worked as an English school teacher before switching to journalism during Second World War. Williams then worked as a theatre director producing plays using black and white … (WVAC) which was formed in April 1951. He initially served as the Legion’s secretary while also serving as an appointed …

… immigrants. His father originally spelled his surname as Yuter before arriving in South Africa. Yutar was South Africa’s first Jewish Attorney-General. As a young man, his left hand was caught in an electric … a Chief Prosecutor on the Rivonia Trial began his career as a lawyer in Johannesburg and later became a junior law …

… she replied, “I don’t have a ‘feminist artist statement’ as such. Being a woman is only one aspect of who I am.” This … 2000 Modus Operandi, it states: Using her own body as subject and point of departure, Searle experiments with … from the same institution (1984-7). Originally working as a sculptor, she produced a worked titled Illusions of …

… Here, Lipman was inspired by the work of architects such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar … the CPSA was under the leadership of figureheads such as Moses Kotane , Yusuf Dadoo and JB Marks . Following his … Johannesburg and worked for Greaterman’s Department Store as their in-house architect. Not only did Lipman design the …

… School in Benoni from which he matriculated in 1967.  As a young scholar he became conscious of the inequities of … outlook was developed by teachers of conscience, and as a teen in 1966, a time of great fear under a blanket of … of Republic Day.He spent a year in Pakistan,worked as a clerk,then enrolled at University of Durban-Westville …

… and other African nationalist liberation leaders such as Robert Mugabe . In 1950, he participated in student … against the visit of Governor General G Brand Van Zyl, and as a result, was expelled from the University. His academic progress was, however, not hampered as the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal – …

… up the present generation to embrace a similar commitment. As we remember the passing away of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe … that South Africa was colonised by capitalists (making colonialism and capitalism synonymous). This means that, even … can never be capitalist as it was designed to act against colonialism and imperialism as identified by both Lenin (in …

… where he did a B.Sc. degree with Mathematics and Physics as his majors. During this time, he expressed his love for … than those in his first book and included socio-political as well as personal (specifically, love) poems. The book was …

… clinics and jobs. Husbands remained behind to work as migrant labourers. It was during this time also that the … periods in detention. Men suffered great frustration and as would be expected, many went all out drinking all their … visited families of detainees to make sure life continued as best as possible. As a trade unionist she also helped to …

… an executive committee of ten people, with Basil Moore as president. The executive included Colin Collins, Winifred … now took a more conciliatory stance, presenting NUSAS as a liberal, multiracial body, and tempering its protests … Gerhart, SASO’s relationship with the UCM was a crucial factor in its survival when it began. They further assert …

… Port Elizabeth . After that he worked in a textile factory as a machine operator in Port Elizabeth from 1965 to 1968. He … During his teaching time at Fort Hare, he was accredited as a chaplain to students of various denominations. During … Church of South Africa. Stofile entered politics in 1963 as a member of the African Students' Association, an  African …

… Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in … certificate through private study. His first job was as a driver for various companies. Modise joined the African … of their homes and political organisations, such as the  African National Congress  (ANC), organised …

… year old. He then later tried the clarinet and trumpet as means to advance his musical talents. As time passed he realized that his love for musical sound … from the likes of John Coltrane, a local saxophonist known as “Cups & Saucers,” and the pianist Merton Barrow. With …

… causing their decline and increased their own status as a powerful trading nation. During the 1480s the Portuguese … replaced it as the dominant power. What was the effect of colonialism on the World Colonial empires became rich and … for manufactured goods. Slavery did not start because of colonialism; slavery has always existed. However, European …

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the Dlamini clan in 1815. He was determined to … his power in the region. Eventually his rule extended as far as Lydenburg. He managed to avoid the worst of the …

… but before his final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational … Thereafter he moved between several jobs including working as a dockworker and in a factory. Matthews later became … the work of other photographers. Matthews started to work as a freelance photographer supplying photographs to the …

… aspects of the transformation process in South Africa, as well as travelling extensively across Africa on assignment for … in northern Uganda, to human interest features such as women's boxing, the training of sangomas and evocative …

… in 1972, then travelled abroad for two years, working as a manual labourer and farmhand. He later applied his farming experience to win abroad support as minister of land affairs after 1994. He followed his … (ANC) underground, he used their Magaliesberg farm as an ANC meeting place and established contact with Jeanette …

… acquired a farm near East London, in what was then known as British Kaffraria, and became involved in local politics, … concerned especially with questions of frontier security, as his farm was situated at the frontier, in contested … career Sprigg became a member of parliament in 1869 as a candidate for East London. He was one of the first to …

… campaign to withdraw recognition of the organisation as a liberation movement in favour of the African National Congress (ANC) as the only representative of the oppressed in South Africa. … of foreign contacts, contained the damage. In so far as the PAC projected an image to the outside world of unity …

… the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time political organiser … in the late 1920s, Mofutsanyana went to Durban as an organiser in 1931 but was deported back to the … the 1930s he was on the party's political bureau, serving as general secretary until 1939 when  Moses Kotane  assumed …

… was born in Johannesburg, 1920. Wiles originally trained as a nurse. She also studied under Nils Andersen and Walter … and Barnato Park School. Her earlier art work were signed as Lucy Wiles until her marriage in 1953. Lucy’s work was on … range of subjects taken up by the artists of this family as a whole has always been conventional, ranging for …

… Nokukhanya Luthuli, maiden name Bhengu, (also known as MaBhengu) was the wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli . Although she never became as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and …

… a nurses' training course, but she eventually took up work as a machinist in a clothing factory where she worked from … were reserved for white people. Her energy and her gift as a public speaker won her rapid recognition, and within a year of joining the ANC she was elected as president of the  ANC Women's League . When the  …

… 1772 he came to the Cape Colony and succeeded Ryk Tulbach as the Governor of the colony in 1774. He resigned from this … the Netherlands, where he died in 1793. He was succeeded as Cape Governor by Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. van de Graaff. … beacon with the monogram of the Dutch East India Company, as well as his name. …

… my mother had several more children, six in all. By then, as I remember, I attended school which under the then laws … and further refined by the Boers in what came to be known as ëapartheidí. Our family steadily fell into increasing poverty. And as I recall we acquired a small Hand-cart on which was filled …

… graduation, he served in a firm of attorneys for two years as an articled clerk and was admitted to the Bar as an advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1930. … (QC) following the death of King George VI. He served as the Chair of the Johannesburg Bar Council from 1952 -1960 …