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… with a teaching diploma, Britten could only obtain a post in the Karoo town of Middelburg. Undeterred he organised for the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA) there and in surrounding areas. He later gained a teaching post at Luckoff High School in Stellenbosch, not too distant from his home town, Paarl, …

… Michael Barry was born in 1954 in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). After receiving his schooling in Port Elizabeth, Barry worked as a computer operator. In …

… Gaur Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National Congress  (ANC), he first made his mark in 1941 when, as secretary for mines in the Transvaal ANC, he …

… William George Ballinger was born on 21st of September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British …

… Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest … and Reuben, who are now both pensioners. He grew up in Meadowlands (Gauteng) and in Tshisahulu (Venda). In Venda young Sidney first looked … Gastrow, S. (1992). Who’s Who in South African Politics, Vol. 4, Johannesburg: Ravan, pp. …

… Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven … a communication medium. He received his primary education in the Pietersburg district at Ga-Madiba, Mashashane Lutheran … diploma at Kilnerton Institution, a Methodist college in Pretoria . Through private and full-time study he later …

… Ben Mclennan was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early schooling in … B., (2003). The wind makes dust: Four centuries of travel in Southern Africa. Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers …

… Joseph Booth was born in 1851 in Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, …

… Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until …

… National Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe was president of the Cape ANC and chief organiser of the Defiance Campaign in the eastern Cape in 1952. He was born at Qumbu in the Transkei in 1919 and …

… Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, … University of Witwatersrand where she obtained a degree in Development Studies. While at Wits, Hogan joined a group … policies of the Apartheid government and became involved in their campaigns. After completing her studies, Hogan …

… at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American Body … became Adams College, but was suspended for rebelliousness in 1913, before completing standard seven. Champion left the … school that year and was employed as a Native constable in Johannesburg. He retired from service after acting as a …

… Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' … variety of jobs for two years, with no particular interest in anything except motorcycle racing. In 1970, he left for … Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa" . South African History Online. Lusaka. …

… Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand enlarger advertised …

… Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted commas is because the land was not, as so many … from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in a squadron of three square-riggers, the Sao Gabriel, the … Prehistory to the year 2000, unpublished papers with SA History Online. …

… Born in Queenstown in 1833, Ruth Prowse is known for her significant … Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her parents who were English immigrants. In 1902, at the age of 19, Prowse went abroad to study and …

… Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district in what is today the Eastern Cape. In 1964 he matriculated at …

… Actress Yvonne Bryceland, née Heilbuth, was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian before her theatre debut in Stage Door in 1947. Her talents were first recognised through her … S. (1992) Yvonne Bryceland Is Dead at 66; Actress in Plays by Athol Fugard . The New York Times [Online] 29 …

… Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell … Jordan's family was highly politicised and he followed in their footsteps. He started off at the age of seven by …

… Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was born on 21 October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 … Secondary School and later Mfundisweni High School in Pondoland East. In 1972 Mayekiso left school to work in the Welkom mines in … Gastrow, S. (1992). Who's who in South African Politics, Vol. 4 , Ravan: Johannesburg, …

… Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first … After matriculating at the Diocesan School for Girls in Grahamstown, Wood was trained as a teacher. Initially she acted as tutor for two cousins in Johannesburg before leaving for an extended tour of …

… Joseph Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg, graduating from the then University of …

… was born Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei . [i] Her father, Chisholm MacDonald, who was born in New Zealand, was a Medical Doctor. Her mother, Helen … of ichthyology. |J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology in collaboration with Royal Society of South Africa; Cape …

… Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national household name …

… 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near Ventersdorp, western … Transvaal (now North West Province ). Her father worked in Johannesburg and they lived in Sophiatown . At the age of seven her mother returned to … 24 February 2010]|S. Lt. Khasuli, (Unknown).  The SA Navy Proudly Welcomes SAS CHARLOTTE MAXEKE and SAS QUEEN …

… Alan Stewart Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal on 11 January 1903. His father, James Paton, … Scottish immigrant and civil servant, came to South Africa in 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter … De Beer, M. (1995). Who Did What in South Africa, Jeppestown: AD Donker Publishers.| London …

… Nomava Eslinah Shangase was born in Pondoland on 9 May 1931. Shangase qualified as a nurse at King Edward Hospital in Durban . As a nurse, in South Africa, she participated actively in the struggle …

… from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household slaves. Without the … de Kaap' (note this term did not only refer to people of black or mix ancestry). Curiously at the Cape the legal line … also well known (i.e. Malayali’s and Bengal’s) for their consciousness of individual rights wherever they are. Did it …

… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment in … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th  of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the founding of …