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… Barend Jacobus du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du Plessis attended Baanbreker Primary School and Voortrekker High School. After matriculating in 1956 he obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1960 at Potchefstroom …

… Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her … cum laude and won her the Royal Empire Society prize. In 1929 Van der Poel returned to South Africa and declined a …

… Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in Johannesburg in 1976. In that same year he also attended …

… William Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple and close associate of …

… Vuyi Lesley Mbalo was born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just before the matric exams. After finally …

… South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended the party night school founded in 1925 in Ferreirastown,  Johannesburg . A teacher by profession, he … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - …

… Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and … of the Witwatersrand. She established a medical practice in Benoni, where she became active in the local African National Congress (ANC) . In 1956 she …

… Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical … opposed to racism while studying at Rhodes University in the 1930s. An intellectual and a revolutionary, Harmel was …

… of seeing the world shared by so many of us still living in the ruins of the British empire. But, looking back, it is … our home on the outskirts of the city through the imposing black gates of St George’s College, Harare. Dressed in a red … also accepted a handful of boys from the country’s small Black upper class, and after a 15-year liberation war that …

… Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with the first experiments in workshopped worker theatre productions [1] and was given conscious form and voice in the mid eighties after the establishment of the Culture …

… by his beloved family, Kunene died peacefully at his home in Madison, America.  He was 93 years old. [i] Daniel Kunene was born in Edenvale, South Africa on 13 April 1923 to Ephraim and … ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA through at UNISA in 1949 and an M.A. at UCT in 1951. After his marriage to …

… Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West , Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. … tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University … R. and Zegeye, A. (eds) 2001.  After Apartheid: Culture in the new South Africa (Volume Two). Pretoria & Cape Town: …

… Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp , western Gauteng , in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters … Sect that was slaughtered at the Bullhoek Massacre in 1923. In Krugersdorp he worked as a clerk for a firm of …

… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon arrival in South Africa in 1930, he was prohibited from entering the …

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, … gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay." William Kentridge was born in … Enwezor, Okwui in Truth and Responsibility. A Talk with William Kentridge , …

… The family moved to Marabastad and then to Atteridgeville in 1942 where he enrolled at De Jong Primary School and completed standard six in 1947. He proceeded to Hofmeyr Secondary School where he obtained a Junior Certificate in 1950. Then he went to Kilnerton Training Institution (KTI) …

… Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of … Transvaal Indian Congress.  Esakjee played a major role in the formation of the  Congress of the People  (COP) which adopted the Freedom Charter in 1955. Esakjee was a member of the Johannesburg Regional …

… Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).  He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand University (Wits) in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he was a …

… decided to once again convey to BOTH groups our opinion in a comradely manner. We all place great significance on the … Empire to its very foundations; consequently, the movement in the British colonies and dominions will be decisive for … mass actions which led to the awakening of class consciousness), and AFTER the fusion with the pilot group …

… Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, matriculating in 1948.’ He pursed Medical …

… Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein . She went on to complete her MA in English …

… on 5 November 1958. He was a student at Naledi High School in Soweto when the 1976 Student riots ensued. Seatlholo, … Vorster ’s Security Police. Khotso survived being shot at in December 1976 and in 1978 he was forced into exile in Botswana where he joined … on 22 February 2012]|Sisulu E. Walter & Albertina Sisulu: in our lifetime , New Africa Books, South Africa pp 412 …

… by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced … because he had known those affected for some time. In 1975 he opened his own legal firm and became actively involved in politics as member of the Progressive Party, which later …

… Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to … to raise money with the goal of building schools in black townships, and these efforts resulted in the founding … life in twentieth-century Durban. Pietermaritzburg, SA: University of Natal Press. [21] Maylam & Edwards. (1996). …

… industry. That industry recklessly dumped petroleum waste in Saro-Wiwa’s home region, the Nigerian delta, which gave … taught briefly at the University of Lagos after graduating in 1965. But he soon left that position to pursue a … He gained an appointment as the commissioner for education in the Rivers State as a reward for his support. He left …

… staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1919, his parents succeeded in getting him enrolled at the Kilnerton Teachers` Training College in Pretoria where he received a diploma in teaching. Marks … Maloka, E. (2002). The South African Communist Party in Exile 1963 - 1990. AISA: Pretoria|SACP. ( ). JB Marks ”“ …

… and women’s rights, Sadie Forman (nee Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish poet and writer, emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa in 1913. In 1952, Forman married Lionel Forman , a young fellow … on 16 March 2021) Mail & Guardian. (2014). Resilient in the struggle. [online]. Available at: …

… Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a … Union . She joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the  ANC …

… Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the first … Natal Native Congress He was a farmer and wagon maker, and in the 1880s he acted as secretary to  Dinuzulu , the Zulu …

… men under the authority of 'appointed' headmen to work in white farms and diamonds mines. The money they earned in these employments was taxed and used to buy guns from the Portuguese in Delegoa Bay and cattle to increase the wealth of the …