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… Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to …

… Archibald Jacob Gumede was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah … former ANC president. He attended various primary schools in Pietermaritzburg and matriculated in 1932 at Lovedale … Adapted From S Gastrow, Who's Who in South African Politics, No.3 …

… Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936.  She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960,  Ronnie Kasrils , later, her husband, visited …

… Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children … completed his primary education at Lovedale School in Alice, Eastern Cape, and then enrolled at St Peter's Secondary School in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, where he first became …

… Mannie Manim was born in June 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and …

… Pahad left India for South Africa in 1919, but returned to India with his father in 1922 to continue with his educational studies. When Dadoo came to India in 1925, they met once again and as friends became interested … Pahad, E. The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924-1946 . D.Phil thesis, University of …

… African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role in opposition politics for over a decade, attracting notice … a former governor-general of South Africa. He was born in Johannesburg,29  June   in 1918 and was educated in England, at Winchester and … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 . Political Profiles 1882| …

… Tinto was born on Christmas day on 25 December 1925 in the Mqanduli district of the former Transkei, now part of Eastern Cape Province. His involvement in political activities started at an early age. In 1942, while he was still a student at St John’s College in …

… Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa … was the chairman of the British Indian Association, was in prison because of his involvement in the first passive resistance campaign led by  MK Gandhi . … Cape Town, p 46|Reddy, E.S. 1992. Indian South Africans in the struggle for national liberation: Evidence of Molvi …

… Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg . She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the … She completed her high school education at Orlando High in Soweto . Between 1940 and 1943, Matlou completed a nursing …

… from prison, which was one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of our country. It is also the 50th … march. We also acknowledge the former President of the Black Sash, Ms Mary Burton. We acknowledge the organisation’s … Government is developing a One Stop Shop/Invest SA initiative to signal that South Africa is truly open for …

… Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle to late 18th century, … [vi] . Poor housing and the fact that they were mixed with black employees in homes with several maids deterred white … domestic service had changed into a predominately female black institution [viii] . The shifts in domestic work that …

… Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in 1885 and married a …

… Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka was born on 10 June 1938 in Raphahla Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale … of Madimentja Laurence Phokanoka The Order of Luthuli in Silver , [Online], Available at www.thepresidency.gov.za   …

… Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village …

… Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic … Coloured and Africans along with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in the backyard of the family home (297 Bree …

… Manilal Gandhi was born  on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and  Mohandas … three brothers, with whom he first came to South Africa in early 1897, when Gandhi's family joined him in Durban.As his father did not believe in formal education, …

… Sipo Elijah Mzimela was born on 19 June 1935, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria … the African National Congress (ANC) and became involved in political protest against Apartheid. He left South Africa in 1962 and went into exile to several African countries, …

… Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal.Mtshali became active in the trade union movement, … ANC, 2011. Mtshali, Eric (NA) (Mr) ’ in African National Congress Parliamentary Caucus [online]. …

… born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of Pondoland in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He completed his primary … the Andrew Smith bursary he went to Lovedale College in Alice, where he passed his Junior Certificate (Standard …

… Parliament as well on having agreed to hold the debate in the evening as we requested. Indeed the workers, students … 12 February, with former prisoners from the ANC, PAC, Black Consciousness Movement and the New Unity Movement. Honourable …

… the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and … English, French and German. Born on 16 September 1939 in Bonnievale, near Robertson in the Cape, Breyten Breytenbach completed his schooling at … M. (2001). The I of the Beholder: Identity formation in the art and writing of Breyten Breytenbach , Cape Town: …

… Ntwaesele "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At … of the African Mineworkers' Union led by  J.B. Marks .In 1949, he left the mines, and moved to Newclare in … to Challenge. A Documentary. History of African Politics in South Africa, Vol. 4, Political Profiles 1882 ”“ 1964 . p. …

… Bartholomew  Moru Hlapane was  born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane …

… Joosub was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by … two of his sons to build a rest house for wayfarers in his memory after his death in 1904. His wife passed away …

… Cornelius Judah Fazzie  was born in 1924 Queenstown Eastern Cape,but grew up largely in Tsolo.His migrant father worked in the Western Cape.He began school at age 15,eventually …

… Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho was born to a peasant family in Maun Bechuanaland (now Botswana) on 3 February 1921. His … group, the Beyei. Mpho attended Moremi Primary School in Maun, and after completion went to further his education in South Africa at Tiger Kloof, Vyrburg, matriculating in …

… John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing primary school he worked as a …

… he enrolled for BSc degree at  Fort Hare University in 1945. At Fort Hare he joined  African National Congress  (ANC) Youth League and became actively involved in students politics. In his second year of study he left Fort Hare and returned to …