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… Molatodi Thomas Lehupela was born on 7 September 1962 in Paradys Location, Thaba' Nchu in the Free State Province. He attended Penyang Primary … to fame came through a meeting with Father Frans Claerhout in 1984; under his guidance Lehupela learned how to do wood …

… Stephen Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced … his school before moving with his mother to the Malay Camp in Kimberly and becoming apprenticed to atailor at age 14.He …  (SANNC) later the African National Congress (ANC).In 1920 Gomas moved to Cape Town and within three years was a …

… Vincent Baloyi was born on 4 February 1954 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Baloyi first attended school in Soweto where his family moved in 1961. He studied art at the Fred Clarke Higher' Primary …

… imprisonments of her husband, a leading political activist in the Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Thambi Naidoo was the sole … left. Her brother, Narainsamy Pillay took the family in, but he too went to prison for political activities and … worked as a cook at Tolstoy Farm and Thambi Naidoo was in charge of marketing and sanitation. Their four children …

… Samuel Alfred Long was born in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's … from home when he was ten years old and went coal mining in the forest of Dean, Wales. At the age of nineteen, Long …

… it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an artist. She kept alive their … Moyaga believes that her influence still sustains him in his quest to express the link between daily life and the ancestral presence. In about 1971, when he took his first job at a business …

… from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane. This conference was remarkable as it signalled … Jacob Zuma . Zuma was appointed as Deputy President in 1999 by President Mbeki, indicating an alliance of sorts … Zuma’s more populist style, evidenced by the singing of apartheid era struggle songs, stood in stark contrast to …

… Andrew Tshabangu was born in Soweto, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South … them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the Alexandra Community art centre in Johannesburg. He taught photography at the Children's …

… Samuel Makoanyane was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His early clay …

… Thomas Selema Masekela was born on 16 December 1908 in Madibeng farm near Dikgale near Pietersburg, Transvaal. … Mogabane mission station school and passed Standard III. In 1921 Masekela\'s father became an evangelist and the … Masekela was sent to the Lutheran Mission farm school in Pretoria where he completed Standard IV and V. From 1925 …

… Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the December 1960 consultative conference of African leaders in Johannesburg. A clerk by occupation, he was briefly a … Party of South Africa  (CPSA) before 1950 and was known in Cape Town as an active organiser and public speaker. He …

… Black and white poster. Information campaign against rule in Namibia. Issued by Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung in Osterreich (Austria). SWAPO Logo. Photograph of a SWAPO …

… Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started teaching History, Afrikaans and German in Randfontein. He also studied with the University of the … die Afrikaanse Volkskarakter”  (The Influence of the Bible in the forming of the Afrikaans National Character). After …

… Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started teaching History, Afrikaans and German in Randfontein. He also studied with the University of the … die Afrikaanse Volkskarakter” (The Influence of the Bible in the forming of the Afrikaans National Character). After …

… Thulisile  Nomkhosi  Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto . Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both … a bachelor of Law from the University of Swaziland in 1987 and three years later, an LLB at Wits University. She …

… Voortrekkerhoogte, is a military base (or military area) in Pretoria , South Africa. Founded around 1905 by the … on 12 June 1902. On the 19 May 1998, following the end of apartheid , it was renamed again, getting the name: 'Thaba … in 1902. On the 19 May 1998, following the end of apartheid, it was renamed again, getting the name: 'Thaba …

… first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the second woman to graduate in medicine at the University, being preceded by Susan Blake … of the alphabet. She was the first female ophthalmologist in South Africa. Blake became concerned about blindness and …

… Jopie Fourie was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout and dispatch rider during the  South African War , and was wounded and captured in an action north of Pretoria. After the war he became a …

…   Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary School in Johannesburg and at schools in the Cape, then became a …

… Cornelia “Connie” September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her … her for holidays. September began her political activism in the trade union and labour movement. She worked as factory worker in Salt River with little interest in politics or trade …

… Alfred "Alf" Khumalo was born in Johannesburg and matriculated at the WiIberforce Institute in Evaton. Khumalo began his working career as a journalist in 1951, freelancing for Bantu World , where he took … 20 March 2009]|Majavu, M (2004) “Alf Khumalo: 5 decades in photos” [online] Available at: southafrica.info [Accessed …

… Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and long-time associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape Town at the end of 1879. They toured South Africa …

… to begin addressing these topics is by acknowledging that in a country like South Africa, there is not one heritage, or … This is especially true in the wake of segregationsit Apartheid policies which attempted to divide and conquer the … elsewhere. This is primarily due to the policies of the Apartheid government that sought to distinguish and segregate …

… 1976 as your starting point: to understand what happened in 1976 you’ve got to understand the analysis of the … that you don’t include SASO here as one of the anti-apartheid organizations - you may have a good reason not to … country, the political awakening that led to the end of apartheid would not have happened. And that unfortunately …

… Johannes Jane Tane Kekana was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of … tradition. Shortly after the arrival of the Voortrekkers in the Transvaal, Lebelo broke away from the Ndebele in the …

… Pallo Jordan, opened a community library at Mbuzini in the Mpumalanga Province, known as the Mbuzini Samora … suspicion both nationally and internationally that the apartheid regime was responsible for the crash. As the … (TRC) found inconclusive evidence pointing to the apartheid government's involvement. On 19 October 1996, …

… Indian Congress (NIC). The NIC had grown more radical in its attitude to apartheid after the Second World War and Kajee held moderate … South African Indian Council that was created to serve the Apartheid government on issues regarding Indians in South …

… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of observers … around the world have commented that the repression in South Africa during the apartheid era pales into … the partial State of Emergency which started on 21 July 1985 and ended on 7 March 1986. • Total no. of detentions 7 …

… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh studied Wood … and by his third year, worked with the Sunday Times .  In 1997 he joined the department of photography at the Vaal Triangle Technikon as a lecturer in photography. He has since completed his degree in Multi …