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… Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver died … as a tailoress and then started a tailoring business in Durban with her brother, also a tailor. She stayed in …

… Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he … and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977, at the age of 33, Cobbing came to South Africa and …

… Peter Gerald Hain was born on 16 February in 1950 in Nairobi Kenya but he grew up in Pretoria after his south african born parents returned …

… Gana Makabeni  was born in the Transkei.  He attended a Communist night school and … Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s. In 1926 he was elected to the party's central committee, …

… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion … joined the American Board for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1833 and in 1834 was appointed along with five other …

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee …  (ANC) from 1958 and a leader of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. He attended Adams …

… He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  … of Art, Durban, and he decided to advance his studies in Britain by taking lessons in drawing and painting at …

… African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . …

… Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later opened a grocery store in Moroka Township, Johannesburg, and in 1949 became a member …

… her conversion to Catholicism and her participation in the slave trade. Angolan nationalist historians would … recent African feminists [1] . Njinga was born around 1582 in the Kingdom of Ndongo in present-day-Angola [2] . The Kingdom of Ndongo was … “African Women: Voicing Feminisms and Democratic Futures” in Macalester International: Vol. 10, Article 9, Spring …

… 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child, … Semenya went to live with her grandmother, Maputhi Sekgala in a nearby village. Semenya played soccer at school and … to study Sports Science at the University of North West. In the African Junior Championships in 2009, Semenya won both …

… Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu,India, had settled in Mauritius. His father was … experience.|Johannesburg, 1995; M.K. Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa.|Ahmedabad, India, 1928; - A souvenir of the …

… Ahmed Gora Ebrahim was born in Durban on 29 May 1936.  Ebrahim cut his political teeth in Trotskyite circles while studying at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the Witwatersrand in …

… Swart was born in Durban in 1952. After matriculating from Queensborough High School in 1969, he enrolled at the Natal Technical College, Durban, …

… the African National Congress (ANC), recruits. He was born in Umgeni Road in 1944, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents … indentured workers. His paternal grandfather, was versed in electricity, and gave classes in electrics at the sugar …

… Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and afterwards it was his  Ouma who told him  no …

… Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She … her future husband, the late Harold Wolpe . They married in November 1955. Harold Wolpe was arrested in July 1963 alongside Nelson Mandela and other African …

… Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River , Natal on 28 June 1926 to … themselves were children of Indian indentured labourers in Natal. In 1930, when Poomoney was two years old, the family moved to …

… of the separate graduation ceremonies held at the time. In addition he edited the students newspaper, Student Call, from1955-56. Maharaj completed his BA in 1955. In 1956 the 'Non-European' section of the university opened … Who's Who in South African Politics IV: Pg 132 …

… Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Abraham … Joffe studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, qualified as a solicitor in 1956 and six years later was called to the South African …

… Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo was born on 22 August 1924 in Omangundu near Ondangwa in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. He attended the Ongwediva Industrial …

… Paul de Groot was born in Surabaya, Indonesia on 11 January 1878. Paul de Groot … received training for the stage at the  Toneelschool  in Amsterdam. His directors were two famous men, Eduard … subsequently employed by the Princesse-Tooneel of Cor Ruys in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and acted in films produced in …

… through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set out to do:  to present to her … it all." (From Marina Grut's book T he History of Ballet in South Africa ) Dulcie was born in Little Brak in 1904, when "fancy dancing" was in its …

… Gunn enrolled for a degree in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her … While studying for her Honors degree, she became involved in community work in the Hout Bay area. It was also during … Beer, The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of protagonists in the South African conflict, Institute of Justice and …

… Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq … was an adventurer and left his family to seek his fortune in South Africa in the 1920s. In South Africa he tried his …

… “Kay” Moonsamy was born on 5 July 1926. He was active in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from the mid-1940s onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer of the NIC, and in 1955 he was elected its vice-president. Moonsamy was …

… Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho , where she received a diploma in Theology and in …

… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s. Sympathetic to the Africanist group within … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… Esme Bodenstein was born on 6 July 1929 in Johannesburg . She trained as a physiotherapist at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Cape Town . There she joined the … discussion groups as well as a night school for Africans. In order to support her family, Bodenstein started a …

… Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at … Merriman was appointed curate of Street (Somersetshire) in 1840. In 3847 he offered his services to Bishop Gray and …