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BiographyZubeida Jaffer
… Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a …
Annie Silinga
… come to the forefront as one of the leaders of the women’s anti-pass campaign. In 1955 she was arrested for refusing to …
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
… the Boer families. Hobhouse was also concerned about the Indian situation, and was upset that the Boers suppressed …
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… up. He completed his secondary education at the Fordsburg Indian High School. He joined the Labour Party Youth, a group …
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
… African Mineworkers' Union and also served on the National Anti-Pass Council in 1944. He was best known as a member of … African Mineworkers' Union and also…
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… New African , which he co-founded in 1962. As a result of anti apartheid political activities, his life and that of his … Organisation (SWAPO) support…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… in the rural Eastern Cape that he initially kept a strong anti-White sentiment, nurtured by the idea that all Whites … socialism of Karl Marx and Leon…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… by the left in Ireland. He attended meetings of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement but was disappointed to find no … the United States and Brazil, and during…
A Durban magistrate rules that no one is to blame for the death of a young Indian dentist, Dr. Hoosen Haffejee, who died in pol
… rules that no one is to blame for the death of a young Indian dentist, Dr. Hoosen Haffejee, who died in pol …
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… From 1955 to 1958 he taught at the independent Central Indian High School in Johannesburg. He served as ANC …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… proximity there were between White, Black, Coloured and Indian people by creating new residential areas, new parallel … move, as Biko is frequently…
Jeannette Ndhlovu
… to the United States of America (USA) to strengthen the anti-apartheid student movement and also to pursue her …
BiographyDerek Andre Hanekom
… of land affairs after 1994. He followed his brother into anti-apartheid activities, joined the Young Christian …
BiographyAmbrose Makiwane
… protests against the Transfer Act of 1959. This piece of legislation sought to restrict the University of Fort Hare to …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti-Semitism led to discrimination and persecution of the … Eli Weinberg , who also fled to South…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… Congress (ANC) and took part in some of their militant anti-apartheid activities. Lipman’s arguably greatest … this time, Lipman did not actively involve…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… interest in current affairs. Boarding with a Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) stalwart, Mrs Ouma Bhayat, and … Mosie was recruited into the newly launched…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… pass a number of laws that restrict the rights of Indian , Coloureds, Chinese and Africans. The principle is … 1893 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , a young,…
BiographyBenson Tsele
… joined protests and campaigns against a slew of apartheid legislation such as the Bantu Education Act in 1954. He also …
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyVeerammal Naidoo
… and Thambi. * Thambi Naidoo was always referred to in the Indian Opinion as C.K. Thambi Naidoo. However, an obituary in …
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
… Congress of Democrats (COD) , and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) – organise civil disobedience …
BiographyZola Budd
… took place without publicity that might have attracted anti-apartheid demonstrators. Budd returned to South Africa …
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
… Africa (CPSA) and became active in the party-inspired Anti–Fascist League, serving as its Natal secretary. During … Member of the CPSA and was active in the…
BiographyAri Sitas
… where he, his colleagues and collaborators were key to the anti-apartheid and transformation processes which have …
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
… When the regional chairman was arrested on the eve of the Anti-Pass Campaign in1960, 23-year-old Kgosana inherited …
BiographySandile Dikeni
… 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He became sought after …
For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives
… For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for …
‘The coolies will elbow us out of the country’: African reactions to Indian immigration in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, by Heather Hughes
… will elbow us out of the country’: African reactions to Indian immigration in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, by …
For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives
… For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for …