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… and played an important role in establishing Afrikaans as a recognised written language. On 12 October 1906 he … not a dialect, but a separate language and should be used as a written language. Malherbe also helped to found … but remaining a teacher. From 1907 to 1909 he served as the principal of the school at Carnarvon and was hired as …

… hence she is unable to read and write. De Bruin worked as a domestic worker. In 1985 she was being paid … children in her first marriage. The marriage collapsed as a result of her first alleged husband’s (who was a railway … De Bruin had no known history, political activism as such, until her name surfaced in the trial of the …

… in 1895 to Johannesburg, where Kumalo served for a while as an ox wagon driver in his father's business, ferrying … to Johannesburg. However, he also took other jobs, such as office-boy, interpreter and clerk. The following year he worked as a messenger at the Jubilee Gold Mining Company. After the …

… the age of 16 and became an active trade unionist, serving as secretary of the National Union of Laundering, Cleaning … of the South African Peace Council from 1951 to 1961, as well as the left-wing Johannesburg discussion Club. He was also a …

… Action. At the annual ANC conference of 1949, Mda resigned as ANC Youth League 's president because of ill health, and Pitje was brought in as his successor. He was also elected to the  African … during his term of office. In 1951 he was succeeded as president by  Nelson Mandela  and retired from active …

… Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers … was the clarinet which he played with his first band known as the Band in Blue. Kippie and the Band in Blue played for … playing with other great South African jazz musicians such as Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa,  Hugh Masikela   and  …

… in 1870, and settled in Pretoria. Jeppe began his career as a mining and property magnate as a clerk in the firm of Schiffman and Company in Pretoria, … Finance Corporation. In 1919, this company became known as the South African Townships, Mining and Finance …

… He was principled and hard working, so it came as no surprise that he was elected as the Chairperson of the TIYC.  At the  Congress of the People , in Kliptown, Dr Jassat, as a 23 year old, had the great privilege of introducing the …

… set up a colony or imprison the local population for use as labour. Furthermore the Khoikhoi were not willing to … and three male slaves. The Dutch began to use the Cape as place for banishing people that they considered … Several leaders such as Sheik Madura, who opposed Dutch colonialism and expansionism in the East Indies was banished …

… at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree. As a student he joined the Unity Movement and became involved … lawyer who did not have permission to work in the city. As a consequence, they set a practice in Langa Township. As per government requirement, Omar needed a permit to visit …

… then attended the University of the Witwatersrand where, as a student of social anthropology, she came into contact … opportunities open to the African juveniles, was published as Problems of Urban Bantu Youth (1940). Hellman is credited … Chavafambira, at the end of 1933. The subtitle explains it as an account of The Mind of An African Negro Revealed by …

… in early 1897, when Gandhi's family joined him in Durban.As his father did not believe in formal education, Manilal's … in 1904) and Tolstoy Farm (founded in 1910) as important training centres and Manilal was regarded as one of the first experimental students. Here the focus was …

… said ‘architecture is defined by the actions it witnesses as much as by the enclosure of its walls’. [ii] With the arrival of … intercepted this ship and took 250 children off the ship. As a result they were separated from their parents who were …

… would address the issue of HIV/AIDS among ANC exiles as well. The department was designed to work together with the Tanzanian government, as well as 33 ANC missions located around the globe in countries such … South Africa’s health minister who advocated beetroot as treatment for AIDS,’ in  British Medical Journal,  Vol …

… his matriculation in 1982 he became interested in drama. As a political activist he was very involved with the … of black workers employed in nearby industrial areas such as Mobeni, where Pax’s father, the Rev. Philip Magwaza, … people’s hardship, the increases were seen by many as a political stratagem aimed at driving Lamontville …

… activists of the African National Congress (ANC) to die as a guerrilla fighter. He ran a gymnasium in the Western Native Township in Johannesburg and later worked as a clerk for the Public Utility Transport Company (PUTCO). He was active in the ANC Youth League and served as its Transvaal treasurer and assistant secretary in the …

… with five children). His father, also named Pieter, fought as a commando against the British in the Second Boer War … campus. Malan was impressed and Botha was offered a post as party organizer in the Cape. He left the university before … only 20 years old. He began working for the National Party as a political organiser in neighbouring Cape Province . In …

… with a degree in classics. He joined the Pall Mall Gazette as a journalist in 1881, eventually becoming the assistant … went into politics after his stint in journalism, standing as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Harrow division … party over the issue of home rule for Ireland.  He served as private secretary to George Goshen, a former Liberal who …

… on to do an LLB at the same institution. He was admitted as an advocate of the Cape Supreme Court in 1892. Life in Kimberly Burton went to work as an advocate in Kimberly in 1892 (Willan, p66). He became … (18 March 1900) In the 1898 election, Burton stood as candidate for the Afrikaner Bond in Barkly West, running …

… parents. This was the last time she was with her parents as a family. A year later, she went to live with her … her mother when she was 10 years old. Her mother had a job as a housekeeper in Bishopscourt . At this time, Sampson was … age home, protest action with posters reading slogans such as ‘Down with Vorster’ and even ran a magazine called …

… or KwaDukuza , a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and … to Russia, and his older brother Pius Langa , who served as chief justice for the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as well as  his other brother Ben Langa, a United Democratic …

… an early age. Grace had great (but unrealised) potential as a soprano, and Meekly (who was nicknamed Fingertips for … to his youngest brother, and Todd's earliest experience as a professional musician was in one of Meekly's bands. … at Lovedale Institute in Alice (1941/42). He stayed on as a teacher at Lovedale, where he taught English and …

… and Mariazell, northeast of Matatiele. After he qualified as teacher, Mda struggled to secure a teaching job in the Eastern Cape until he settled for a menial work as gardener and kitchen boy in a White household in East … of landing a teaching post, but he found teaching jobs as scarce as in the Eastern Cape. At the Witwatersrand Mda …

… (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie - also referred to as VOC) in 1639 where he began as an assistant surgeon on a voyage to Batavia (today known as Jakarta) in the East Indies in April 1639 and then further …

… at the School of Optic and Photechnic in Berlin and worked as an apprentice for the German Press Agency for two years. … and stepfather. In September 1951 he joined Drum magazine as their official photographer and layout artist. After … creative South African photographers of his time, such as Henry Nxumalo , Bob Gosane, Earnest Cole , Ian Berry and …

… Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now … Matibane High School. Influenced by European writers such as Charles Dickens and D.H. Lawrence, Kgositsile began writing as a hobby. He soon got a job at the newspaper, New Age, …

… formal schooling, but became an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night … In 1931 he became a full-time party functionary. Working as both a party and a union organiser, he also set the type … , the Communist paper then edited by Edward Roux. As one of the CPSA's most promising African recruits in a …

… School. She was in the students’ union in Tygerberg as well as the North West District Teachers’ Union. The issues then were the conditions of teachers and salaries, as well as teaching materials for the schools. In April 1952, …

… Refiloe Phelile Florence Jackie Sedibe (known as Jackie Sedibe) was born at White River in Mpumalanga . … in 1967/68. Between 1969 and 1971 she was deployed as a radio operator in Lusaka and appointed as communications chief. Then, from 1972, she worked as a …

… (two younger brothers were to follow). His father worked as a school inspector while his mother worked as a nurse. He attended schools in Utrecht and Pinetown, … to work fulltime on the National Executive of the BCM as Director of Literacy and Coordinator of Community …