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… Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced man, in height a little more than five feet, of light brown … land, Isaac grew up to become a prominent African elite in the Eastern Cape. [3] Today he is most known for his role …

… Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2009. … Michael was killed at scene 1 after being shot twice, once in his chest and once in his right arm. He was the sole breadwinner in his family …

… born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He settled in the Cape, where the scenery would later be the inspiration …

… a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of South Africa’s arid interior … of Cape Town, his first practice was at Ceres, also in the Cape Province. In 1956, he went to Minnesota …

… Jeanie Noel was born in  Durban  as one of twelve children, however her family was … enough to own property, something that was not common in coloured communities at the time. She attended St. … reached high school she realized that all were not equal in South Africa. Her school that had only white teachers had …

… Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a … and received eight cuts. Modiba came to Johannesburg in 1926 and worked as a domestic servant and later in textile …

… Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with her …

… Oscar Hollander was born in Cologne, Germany, 1864. He lived in SA from 1889; date and place of death not known. … Information on Oscar Hollander, who apparently studied in Amsterdam and arrived in SA in 1889, is thin. In 1911 he …

… Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a … Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), he left school to join it in 1927, becoming a local ICU leader in Vryheid. But  Kadalie's  star was on the wane, and Coka …

… he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown. He later moved to Port Elizabeth where he was employed in a pharmacy and became local chairman of the party. Turning …

… the periphery of organised politics over many years, Tema in 1937 served as chairman of a committee in the Transvaal charged with reviving the  African National … of  A. B Xuma  and passage of the  Programme of Action in 1949 , he withdrew his support for what he regarded as the …

… Ntuli was born in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his … - 1973 he attended the Ndaleni Teachers Training College in Richmond, specialising in art. He taught at schools in KZN between 1976 and 1977.  …

… African National Congress  organiser in the Western Cape. Ngotyana was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He …

… Harold Cressy was born on 1 February 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five … eight he was sent to Cape Town to continue his education. In 1905 he graduated from Zonnebloem College with a T.3 … certificate, which was the basic requirement for teachers. In 1906, at the age of seventeen, Cressy was employed as …

… was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South Africa, and was also interested in restoring and preserving old buildings. Magdalena, …

… Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April 1989. When Jorge Risquet, one of Fidel … town of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola. The loser was the apartheid military machine in that embattled country in March …

… Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Mauritius. [1] His mother Maria was the daughter of … descent. At the time it was common for Company men working in Batavia to take wives of non-European descent. Simon van der Stel thus became the first person not born in Europe and born of mixed parentage to be appointed …

… In 1906 he joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax by … attacked by Zululand police. Many people fled their homes in fear. Bambatha was killed, and Sigananda and Mangati …

… Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie (Aberdeen-shire). Duncan first educated in Edinburgh, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he … to  Sir Alfred Milner , who brought him to South Africa in March 1901. Duncan was the senior member of Milner's …

… rifle grenades.  Reportedly, several young men were shot in the back as they fled.  According to ANC officials, no … he said in a TV interview. Under South Africa's policy of apartheid, Ciskei was designated as one of two homeland or … into South Africa on 27 April 1994, after the first post-apartheid elections. Along with Transkei, it became part of …

… Captain Lancelot Andrew Elsworth Ariba was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1891. He served in World War I with distinction and late studied architecture …

… Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and … was elected to the Natal executive committees of the ANC in 1955 and of the South African Congress of Trade Unions in …

… Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music … production of the musical “Meropa” as musical director. In 1975 they performed a Royal Command Performance for Queen …

… to a truly united, democratic and prosperous South Africa in which the value of all citizens is measured by their … and mass mobilisation to challenge colonialism and its apartheid derivative. In these various terrains of struggle, … not as yet amassed sufficient strength to overthrow the apartheid regime. Elements within the South African ruling …

… Location: back to this day in history search archive Former South African Defence Force … hit squads to destabilise South Africa before the end of apartheid. They were also charged with the 1987 massacre of … Botha's request for a moratorium on prosecutions of apartheid era leaders until the Truth and Reconciliation …

… is prohibited from attending any gatherings of any nature in two years. 1954 Trand Marquard is banned. October, … urging maximum co-operation and unity in opposing apartheid legislation. October, The executive of the … federations in creating a united action against apartheid. 26 June, Congress Stay-At-Home. July, Asinamali …

… Sabata Manaka,  also known as Tsepo Nkosi,  was born in 1951.  He lived in Phiri, Soweto, Johannesburg. Manaka left the country in 1978. His brother,  Ezekiel Mosioa Manaka tracked him to  … ANC. List of ANC members who died in exile  from the ANC website. Available at  …

… the Belville Theological Seminary and worked as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a … this platform to speak out against the policies of the apartheid government. Boesak was also instrumental in … Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the largest anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. Although praised for his …

… Johannesburg – In the heart of Pageview in Johannesburg lies a small, but … became fragmented by the social engineering policies of apartheid under the leadership of the National Party. It is … processing land claims from owners forced to move during apartheid, causing homeless people to occupy the area, she …

… age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be narrated for decades to come. When he died … be indexed in the fact that the when the curators of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg came to mount a permanent …