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… Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family … 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group was left-wing and multi-racial, mostly … developed into a student group of the party around 1947. In 1942 Athol graduated as a civil engineer from Natal …

… John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the …

… responsible for the establishment of the TEACH Museum in Empangeni and he served on the Advisory Board of that museum. He was a primer mover in the building of the new VM in 2001 in Eshowe.  Bozas has participated in numerous group …

… Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked as a factory worker, and later became a bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port …

… specimens). These groups encountered European settlers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when … Bantus and Whites. In resisting colonial expansion, Black African rulers founded sizable and powerful kingdoms … once identified with the strict division of white and black. The phrase was elaborated upon by President Nelson …

… Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in  Durban  in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to …

… Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in Ladysmith, he entered Adams College in 1933, where he became friends with Anton Lembede. On … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in …

… Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as … his father was headmaster. When his family moved to Soweto in 1963, Saoli enrolled at the Morris Isaacson School in Moroka. Saoli cultivated an interest in art inspired by …

… to the new slogan (to the extent of accepting it in the abstract while suggesting tactical modifications in its concrete form), as contrasted with his own unbending … draws attention in public to the fact that the natives as black men are exploited and oppressed by the Europeans as …

… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and … law at the University of Utrecht, he left the country in 1764 to become a member of the Council of Justice in …

… Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary …

… Tielman Roos was born in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South … when he was only 23 years old. He opened a law practice in Cape Town, but decided to move to  Pretoria , where he … at the statue of  Paul Kruger , which was situated in Prince's Park in Pretoria. A group of people had gathered …

… Johanna Hendrina Strydom.  Johanna Scheepers was born in 1915. During the depression of the 1930s Scheepers and her … the case with many Afrikaans women, she found a position in a clothing factory and later worked at the Bell Clothing factory. Scheepers became involved in the activities of the Garment Workers′Union (GWU) in 1933. …

… Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the petrol company, in the …

… Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus , after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape . She matriculated at Middledrift and … Diploma at Lovedale Teachers College. Balindlela taught in 1973-74 at Gasela Secondary School, and from 1975–77 at …

… also known as James Stuart, is most noted for his role in exposing brutality at African National Congress camps in 1984 , which culminated into the ‘ Stuart Report .’ [i] … executions if Loots had not had the courage and integrity, in the face of considerable pressure, to report the truth’. …

… 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During this period he … Claudina de Villiers. Burger was elected as field cornet in 1881, and became part of the campaign against Nyabela, the … was later imprisoned. Burger was appointed as a commandant in 1885. The following year in 1886 he became a member of the …

… the 16 August 1961. She was drawn into political activity in 1976 while she was a student at Lenasia’s Nirvana High … of Arts at the University Witwatersrand, she became active in student politics. During this time she participated in various community organisations and youth structures of …

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and America before settling in South Africa in 1880. He met JH Hofmeyr and formed a …

… Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg.  Selebi was the African National Congress … to the Soviet Union's World Federation of Democratic Youth in Budapest, Hungary, from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he was elected as leader of the African National …

… Ambrose Makiwane was born in Soweto. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. This, coupled with that his parents … school delayed his enrollment. Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high …

… a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession after a few years, and became an interpreter in the magistrate's court in Aliwal North. In the 1890s he was ordained as a minister …

… Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of … education. Ngqawana began his musical career singing in traditional gatherings and weddings before learning to …

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according to Roux, for some years the only African Communist in South Africa. An able and dedicated organiser, he served, …

… Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization. After serving as a sapper in World War Two, he studied engineering at the University of …

… South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town on 23 February 1974. He completed his secondary … national cricket team, the Proteas, at the Eden Gardens in Calcutta in the 1996/97 seasons. Since then Gibbs has cemented his …

… Dullaart completed his National Diploma in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a … arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National Diploma in Photography at Pretoria Technikon. He was a lecturer at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg during 1995 and 1996. In 1999 Dullaart set …

… Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but … guitar, and by chance he came across a guitarist playing in street. After listening he developed a liking for Zulu …

… a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children in an Afrikaans-speaking coloured family. Her father, a … completed her secondary education at Bastiaanse Hoërskool in 1969. In 1974, she worked as a laboratory technician for …