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… leave to his final resting place from the Orlando Stadium, in Soweto, where he lived for many decades, among the masses … solidarity movements in history, the world anti-apartheid movement, involving millions of people throughout … of 1956-61. Walter Sisulu was among those targeted by the apartheid regime as it prepared to hit at our movement …

… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She … Jabavu , website: book.co.za|Noni Jabavu, Author of Drawn in Colour, Dies at 88, website: book.co.za …

… a message. I have quite a little audience here around me in the house of a friend who has been doing the recording for … us is that it seemed that their plans are linked up with apartheid. However, let me go on. This Conference of African … in national affairs. And it gave a thunderous "NO" to the apartheid report of the Tomlinson Commission. It gladdened my …

… it important for young people to be able to be together in defiance of the wrongful laws and regulations against such … laws and if we could detach whites from supporting the apartheid system we would help the process of liberation from … passive response to segregation, now in its intensified apartheid form. In the Modern Youth Society we would go out …

… He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker  to positions of …

… Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first … had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his father was a builder belonging to … a hardened warrior who had fought against the British and, in turn, forbade her to become a Christian. Caught between …

… Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving …

… was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe succeeded his father, Mokhacane, as the … enemies, including Shaka’s Zulus and Mzilikazi’s Ndebele . In 1833 he encouraged missionaries from the Paris Evangelical …

… Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew … melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa. At the age of 14 he started playing the …

… Philip Ate Kgosana was born in 1936 in Makapanstad in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… has this year shown a new firmness and determination in the handling of the South African question. We wish to … Nations on many issues affecting our struggle against apartheid.     The vigilance and swift reaction of the Special Committee on Apartheid, and its detailed, up-to-date and comprehensive …

…  been accessible to the people of Durban. KwaMuhle is in no sense an apartheid museum.  Nor is it an African History Museum. It is … the inaccuracies in the historical record left by Apartheid, to create a heritage and context for our new …

… who both preceded him as kings of the Zulu. He was born in Babanango, Zululand. Mpande was viewed as a weak man in comparison to his contemporaries. Dingane (his half … to death by Dingane for his inaction. After Mpande learned in 1838 that Dingane did not trust his loyalty and planned to …

… Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who … and Yale University, where he obtained an M.A. degree in 1940. In 1957-1958 he was a British Commonwealth Fellow at …

… He was educated to secondary school level at Inkamane. In 1953 he attended Ndaleni Educational Training Centre, … worked as a teacher at Glencoe and Loram Secondary School in Durban, as well as at Isibonelo High School and Mzuvele … for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Culture in Ulundi. He was both a sculptor of busts and portraits, …

… Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After … for election to the Transkeian Legislative Assembly in 1963. A schoolmaster turned fanner and businessman, Sakwe …

… Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief.  He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to …

… rule policy of segregation and more so its virulent form, apartheid, have screened off from each other Black and White in South Africa. Our knowledge of each other is scanty and … of a bayonet to march back to tribalism, as is the aim of apartheid. Non-whites reject with the contempt it deserves …

… Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and … skills and keenness towards social responsibility. In both junior and high school, Eulalie won awards for … Society. They would only be the beginning of a long career in similar philanthropic organizations. Post school, Stott …

… Africans, and not only for his organisation, the ANC. In his honour, we have declared the year 2017, the Year of … United Nations in 1963, appealing for action against the apartheid regime. We extend a warm welcome to her … Society of South Africa, one of my special guests. The sports fraternity tragically lost one of its favourite sons, …

… moved to Cape Town where he attended an English school. In 1874 the family moved to Pretoria, where his father had … then Meneer Dely se skool op Kerkplein. It was closed down in 1877 when England annexed Pretoria. After one year's work at his father's newspaper he went on to school in Stellenbosch and Wellington. He first worked as a surveyor …

… Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active … at the University of Cape Town and became an architect. In 1946 he was charged with sedition, arising from the 1946 …

… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King,  Dinuzulu  kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen Silomo. In 1926 she married King Mathole Buthelezi. Princess Magogo composed Zulu classical music and was gifted in playing the ugubhu, (a stringed bow and a calabash …

… Benedict 'Bennie' Saul McCarthy was born in Cape Town in November 12, 1977. His soccer career began with the Cape … He made his first national appearance for Bafana Bafana in 1997 against Netherlands, when South Africa lost to the …

… 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern … the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo [1] . He grew up in a mud-brick house. The Congo was a colony of Belgium and, … class; the highest-level indigenous Congolese could attain in the Belgian colony [3] .  His first employment was at the …

… labour but served only two years. Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five … studied at Lovedale Institute and Zonnebloem College in Cape Town. Mgijima completed grade five at a local school … evangelist, for which he gained quite a reputation in the region. On 19 April 1907, while out hunting small …

… kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of … civil war. Cetshwayo's brothers, who acted as councillors in the king's absence, complained about Zibhebhu's endeavours … Civil war continued after Cetshwayo returned from exile in 1879 with Cetshwayo's supporters raiding the homesteads of …

… on anything editorial, has for months now found comfort in apartheid policies to muzzle the truth in favour of … critical voices in favour of those who defended the apartheid state. Now, in 2016, the SABC under Motsoeneng and …

… The act was dubbed one of the most “liberal abortion laws in the world”. It starkly contrasted with the access available under the Apartheid -era Abortion and Sterilisation Act of 1975 under … underwent the procedure. The inaccessibility under Apartheid contributed to the deaths of at least thousands of …

… "Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars. Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King of the … kraals, he slipped back into the so-called Neutral Zone in 1822 to found a new chiefdom on the banks of the Kat …