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… Politician and British Colonial Officer, Bathurst was born in Gloucestershire, England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry … from 1783 until he succeeded his father as Earl in August 1794. Perhaps influenced by his friendship with …

… Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of …

… Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before … 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape Town and the Johannesburg Market Theatre. He has …

… Tikkie Sibisi was born in Greater Nigel in 1975 and grew up in Duduza Township with a single parent, his father, and …

… Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to … an accountant. He enlisted with the South African Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II … and the Congress of Democrats (CoD).  When he was arrested in 1956, he left his wife with a six-month-old baby. He was …

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in 1904 and worked in his early life as a farm labourer in …

… Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala was born on 21 April 1937 in Bloemfontein. As a young boy Macala tended cattle on a farm in the Orange Free State and passed the time drawing on the rocks with stones. He is largely self-taught although in 1964 he studied for a few months under Cecil Skotnes at …

… African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) were arrested in the 1956 Treason Trials, she became part of the Management Committee in 1957. Balfour was arrested in 1958 for her participation in the April Stay-At Home and … Berger, I. 1992. Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980.   Indiana University …

… The African Art Centre is a non-profit organisation based in KwaZulu-Natal . Founded in 1959, it was under the leadership of Jo Thorpe for the … that was involved in the development and promotion of Black artists. African Art Centre artists that have achieved …

… Pat Horn initially got exposed to politics in the early 1970s through her involvement with adult … literacy projects during her days as a university student. In 1975 she raised funds and started a literacy project involving factory workers in the Western Cape . In 1976 Pat moved to Durban where she …

… Christopher Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the … University with a first class pass in1938, while serving in the Indian civil service, he was stricken with polio in …

… who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South Africa. He was 75. His death … who set up tents on land that was reserved for whites in 1946 as an act of passive resistance. After studying at the University of Natal and in London, he was admitted to the South African bar in 1957 …

… Alexander Macaulay Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of  John Tengo … at Lovedale, he taught briefly, then on his father's death in 1921 took over  Imvo Zabantsundu,  which he edited until … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… is internationally renowned for her unrelenting efforts in advocating democracy, environmental conservation and human rights. [i] She was born in Nyeri, part of the rural region of Kenya on the 1st of April 1940. Maathai was of Kikuyu ethnicity. In 1964, Maathai graduated with a Bachelors degree in …

… Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed her father to South Africa, settling in Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), until 1936 …

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 1977.He had been detained at his home in Soweto on 31 January 1977 and taken to Pietermaritzberg …

… Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical … following year he began his career as a commercial artist in Johannesburg.  Shortly after his first exhibition in 1969, …

… Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one of the accused in the Treason Trial. After …

… “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on  3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s. After obtaining a diploma in Agriculture, he …

… had left school was a spell behind the counter of a store in Duiwelskloof in the former North Eastern Transvaal. Here, … spent rainy days studying Mathematics from textbooks found in a storeroom. In 1927 he joined The Star as a reporter. He …

… to the discussion over the Third Worlds place in the World economy. As a critical Marxist thinker, he is … of the founders of post-colonial thoughts. Amin was born in Cairo in 1931. In 1947, he moved to Paris to study political …

… Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964 , Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto , Johannesburg in  1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about … by literature from a very young age. van Wyk rose to fame in the 1970s for his writing. He worked as an editor at the …

… Leslie  Massina was born in 1921 in Pimville, Johannesburg, Massina left school to become a … testimony when cross-examined by lawers for the strikers.In the mid-1940s,after taking a job in a laundry where …

… T. J. completed his "A" levels in 1977 at Mount Pleasant High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an interest in photography in 1984 whilst studying pharmacy. After …

… Izak de Villiers was born in Paarl on 30 July 1936. He attended Paarl Gymnasium, a … poet - considered by some to be the best mystical poet in Afrikaans - and a prolific author.  He wrote 54 books, … also composed a number of hymns that were included in the hymnbook of the Dutch Reformed Church in the 1970s. He …

… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She … Jabavu , website: book.co.za|Noni Jabavu, Author of Drawn in Colour, Dies at 88, website: book.co.za …

… He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker  to positions of …

… Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving …

… Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew … melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa. At the age of 14 he started playing the …