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‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… century. Yet the twenty-one years that Gandhi spent in South Africa were critical in the ‘Making of the Mahatma’. … would have been on the same footing as…
BiographyFrans “Ting Ting” Masango
… Frans “Ting Ting” Masango grew up in Mamelodi, Tswane. His mother was a domestic worker and … by the 1976 student uprising . He played an active role in…
BiographyJan Gerard Sekoto
… Jan Gerard Sekoto was born on 9 September 1913 in Botshabelo. Botshabelo was a mission station established … by the German missionaries amongst the Pedi…
BiographyAbdullah Haji Adam Jhaveri
… of Dada Abdulla and Company. Dada Abdulla met Gandhi in Durban, when Ghandi first arrived in South Africa, Dada looked after him. Gandhi lived with …
BiographyThambi Naransamy Naidoo
… Thambi Naidoo, also known as “Naran” or “Roy.” was born in 1901 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where the … to challenge: A documentary…
Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin
… He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife. He committed suicide at Southampton in 1841. He was then a…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… opportunity costs of capital’ (Burawoy, 1982: 602-603). In South Africa, during this period of hegemonic despotism, a … that challenged the despotism of the…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… government that led to the first democratic elections of 1994. The TRC was created by an Act of Parliament – the … amnesty, yet there have been relatively…
BiographyChief Dalindyebo
… Chief Dalindyebo, of the Tembus, was born in 1865. At the age of 14 years he was admitted into St. … study the aspirations, habits and customs of his people…
BiographyDr Hassen (Ike) Mahomed Moosa
… Born in 1923. Moosa was a medical practitioner. He was educated at … Hare and the University of Cape Town (UCT) and was active in the political movement…
BiographyMrs N. S. Lachimi Pillay
… Mrs. N. S. Pillay (Lachimi), sister-in-law of Veerammal Naidoo, went with Veerammal and her … months with hard labour while taking care of an infant in…
BiographyJames J. Majoro
… A clerk and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the…
BiographyZamazulu Thembekile Nkosi
… Nkosi became the first Black matron in the Natal Provincial Administration and in KwaZulu-Natal . Her decision to nurse was motivated by a …
BiographyDr. Susan Vosloo
… She joined the heart team at the Groote Schuur hospital in 1984, and completed her training in 1988. She did her first heart transplant when she was 33 …
BiographyHymie Barsel
… Born in 1920 Barsel worked as a clerk. During the 30s he was assaulted when taking part in demonstrations against the Blackshirt Movement. He was …
BiographyJansie Lourens
… Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of active participation in the African National Congress (ANC), the planting of bombs, assisting people in fleeing the…
BiographyEdward Sonnyboy Bhengu
… Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu was born on 8 November 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the …
Liberation organisations
… regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983, and based its ideology on the Freedom Charter . The … nearly every mass demonstration…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… I had known Vishnu for nearly forty years, it was only in 2013 that I got to work with him. It was on a special … However, for Mamdani, social justice was…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… Potgieter was one of the first Voortrekkers to settle in the Rustenburg area. David Livingstone, the famous English explorer, came into conflict with…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… and book writer which assisted with her important role in the abolishment of apartheid. She wrote major articles and … the inequality, and directed all of…
BiographyNorma Kitson
… Norma Kitson (nee Cranko) was born to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of four children, and had an … The Activist who started the anti…
BiographyJacobus du Toit
… one of the founders of the Afrikaans language movement. In a series of articles published in Die Afrikaanse Patriot , he pushed for the formation of a …
BiographyDoc Bikitsha
… born on 19 November 1930 at the Bridgman Memorial Hospital in Mayfair, Johannesburg. After passing Matric, Mr Bikitsha … Pius X11 University College, then…
BiographyAlan Wieder
… and Comrade, and most recently Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Although he lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of…
SAHO Milestones
… an NGO South African History Online (SAHO) was established in 2000, as a not-for-profit Section 21 organisation 30 … - The Lives of Courage campaign was…
BiographyPiet Joubert
… President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against … of the Transvaal and managed to…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
… only female principal of the Huguenot University College in Wellington and a lecturer at the Pretoria Technical … of a country was largely determined by its…
Michael Mike Matsobane
… brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their efforts fell under the non-political … brothers contribution to the struggle has…
Lennox Madikane
… , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now Western Cape), Madikane was one … were the first people sentenced to…