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… the many personal accounts now published by those involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, Norman Levy’s substantial memoir stands … where he became a lecturer but remained active in anti-apartheid work, attending the SACP congress in Cuba in 1989 …

… Ngobese was born in Kwa Mashu where he works as a full-time artist. He is largely self-trained as an artist. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and is represented in public and private collections in SA. …

… Moripe Foundation, family members and the former player in May 2010. It was agreed that no conditions should be … Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer in both the city and the country. The formal announcement of … touches. Moripe began playing for Pretoria Callies in 1971 and led the team to several memorable victories over …

… Thabo Marera was born in Soweto on 18 September 1972 and matriculated at Anchor … Films (one of the top 25 commercials film companies in the world) and said he wanted to learn from how to become … as an assistant.   After a year he wrote to a film school in Portland, in the United States, requesting a scholarship, …

… Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African Artists". In it she stands posed at her easel determinedly painting en … and an Art Mistress". We know that she taught drawing in Cape Town from about 1897. The link with Brangwyn was …

… holding half an orange, with photograph of two soldiers in a tank in the centre. Issued by the Anti-Apartheid Movement, London. Recruitment poster. …

…   She was born in Winterton, Natal. She was trained by Fée Halsted-Berning … at Ardmore. Before her untimely death she participated in many group exhibitions here and abroad.  She is represented in public and private collections in SA and overseas. …

… Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in subsequent Congress Campaigns such as the Bantu Education Boycott. Arrested in 1955 after leading a procession in Korsten. …

… hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She was born in 1965 in Cape Town , South Africa. In 1987, she graduated from the …

… lessons. He then attended Kinlinton Training School in Pretoria where painting was included in the curriculum. In 1930 he was working in a sweet factory in Durban. Later he …

… Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with which the apartheid regime encountered it, Mrs Winnie Mandela made an …

… Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the  African National Congress  in 1939 and was one of the leaders of the Orange Free State …

… Sitelega Meric Gadlela (50) was from Dvokolwako in Swaziland. He began working for Lonmin in 1989 and was with the company for 23 years. Mr Gadlela was killed at scene 2 after being shot twice in the back. He left behind his mother, wife and 11 children, …

…   Mzwakhe Mbatha was born in 1935 near Umnini Holiday Camp, Natal. Mbatha left school in Standard II. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects … objects by a piece of wood which he discovered in the veld that reminded him of a bending female figure. …

… Middelburg is a modern Town situated in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South … dams in the area allow for an abundance of exciting water sports such as sailing and fishing to be enjoyed. The … safe. Middelburg Cemetery: Whether it is ABW, World War or Apartheid history you are interested in the Middelburg …

… The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them … imposed on Winnie Mandela and other victims of apartheid repression. It is a call proclaiming and promoting … he is serving life imprisonment, and other captives of the apartheid regime, on behalf of the African National Congress …

… Black, red and white poster. Artwork of wrists in handcuffs. Anti-Apartheid Movement, London, campaign. …

… Black and white poster. Artwork of a tank. History of SKF in South Africa during apartheid. …

… 1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First  is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish … a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science), receiving a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native … 1972 The South African Connection: Western Investment in Apartheid , edited by First, J Steele and C Gurney, is …

… He then moved to Johannesburg to complete studies in law. After the Sharpeville massacre and the state … the South African Government from practising as a lawyer in South Africa.  Madikizela was then forced to live in the Transkei (Eastern Cape) where he practised law in …

… Johnson was born Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother in a township on the east rand. When his mother became too … Johnson was thrust into the media when a primary school in Johannesburg refused to admit him as a pupil because of … mother founded a refuge for HIV mothers and children in Johannesburg, aptly named Nkosi’s Haven. Nkosi gave talks …

… Tony Leon was born on 15 December 1956 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was born to Sheila … for his primary education at Clifton Preparatory School in Durban and later moved to Kearsney College. Leon went on … still at Wits he was appointed to lectureship position in a Law Department in 1986. Leon also occupied quit number …

… behalf of the African Union and your brothers and sisters in Africa, I would like to thank you most sincerely for the … South Africa, was still governed by a white minority apartheid regime. But by then we knew that freedom was in … will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our liberation from apartheid and white minority rule. We would be most honoured …

… Makhoba (qv.) through his Philange Art Project based in Umlazi, a township south of Durban where Makhoba had built … held a number of exhibitions at the African Art Centre in Durban. Although Duma has built on his own style and … treatment of surface, subject, space and colour is unique in that other issues are not stated directly but are alluded …

… this magnificent City Hall, the site of many great events in the history of France. These hallowed halls witnessed the … the task of creating a better life for all South Africans. Apartheid had left a devastating legacy of vast inequalities … restructured and municipal boundaries inherited from the apartheid era have been redrawn to reintegrate our cities and …

… The events at Lonmin Mine in Marikana in the North West Province were a tragic stain on the history of post Apartheid South Africa. This timeline chronicles the events …

… no unjust firings, no retrenchment, no unemployment, no apartheid in the workplace, equality between men and women; training; unity in struggle ; with all oppressed people in SA; Transport and …

… Thembelakhe Mati (50) was from Ntabankhulu in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Mr Mati was killed after he was shot in the leg. Initially the state pathologist claimed that he … from a ricocheted bullet. He was the only employed person in the family and left behind his wife and six children, as …

… Thabiso Mosebetsane (49) was from Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He started working at Lonmin in 2008 and lived in Nkaneng informal settlement. He left behind a wife and 3 …

… Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four years later …