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… unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished …

… Howard S. Ngcobo was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of … of London. He worked for a time as a salesman. Active in the Natal African National Congress Youth League in the … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… recruited to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in  Pretoria  at a time when the party was at a low ebb. … after joining, he became a member of the central committee in  Johannesburg . In 1933 he was jailed for seven weeks after being arrested in …

… Keable Mote was born in 1898 in Leribe, Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial …

… In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola . The whole of southern Africa became a zone of …

… Victor V. T. Mbobo was born in the Cape, he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of the Youth League and in 1947 was chosen as … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - …

… Hendricks was born in Caledon on 7 February 1936. He started his music career as … Later, he founded his own band, Bobby Hendricks Sound. In the early 1980s his first record was released, and in the next two decades he had five gold albums.  In 1999 …

… Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxford, in 1874. He came to South Africa as a correspondent to the … the South African War of 1889-1902, and was taken prisoner in Natal when the train that he was travelling in was …

… Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was instrumental in bringing about …

… as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and … reign more than a hundred chiefdoms were brought together in a Zulu kingdom which survived not only the death of its … and Senzangakhona was illicit, and that Shaka was born in Langeni territory at the Nguga homestead of Nandi's uncle. …

… Willem Petrus Esterhuyse (Willie) Esterhuyse was born in 1936 in Laingsburg, Western Province (now Western Cape), on his … where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained a D Phil. His initial …

… of institutions through re-structuring and mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa, historically White and … form new institutions. In January 2004, the historically Black institutions, Technikon Northern Gauteng (formerly … is ordered to pay the costs of the court application. SA Students Congress (Sasco) and the University's SRC launch …

… patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) was burnt out and the following … UCT students march towards the city centre giving the Black Power Salute to black people passing until the police stop them. 73 students …

… Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2009. … Michael was killed at scene 1 after being shot twice, once in his chest and once in his right arm. He was the sole breadwinner in his family …

… Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised … to work as a freelance photographer, working mainly in and around the Karoo area in South Africa. He contributed …

… born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He settled in the Cape, where the scenery would later be the inspiration …

… for parliamentary representation for Coloureds and Indians in one of three separate chambers, a supposed reform and … to apparently broaden political representation excluded Black Africans – far from being a movement towards a more … order, the process represented Indians and Coloureds in an inadequate and racialised manner, and was meant to …

… a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of South Africa’s arid interior … of Cape Town, his first practice was at Ceres, also in the Cape Province. In 1956, he went to Minnesota …

… Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959.  She then went on to study for a Diploma in …

… Jeanie Noel was born in  Durban  as one of twelve children, however her family was … enough to own property, something that was not common in coloured communities at the time. She attended St. … reached high school she realized that all were not equal in South Africa. Her school that had only white teachers had …

… Eric Miller  was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered the corporate …

… Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a … and received eight cuts. Modiba came to Johannesburg in 1926 and worked as a domestic servant and later in textile …

… Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with her …

… The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in … Cars were only allowed to proceed if the driver gave the Black Power salute and hooted in support. Later that morning … group that marched towards the centre of town, giving the Black Power salute to passing Blacks until stopped by the …

… Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a … Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), he left school to join it in 1927, becoming a local ICU leader in Vryheid. But  Kadalie's  star was on the wane, and Coka …

… and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the United Kingdom to Johannesburg, South Africa when … his adult life for psychiatric treatment. He grew up in a wealthy home in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). …

… Day 1 Arrive in Kassel by train from Frankfurt and get off at the … in coal dust. They are visually arresting in their deeply black and glittering surfaces, stencilled with text from … for such a venture, apart from locating some books on SA art in Meschac Gaba's library which is part of his …

… he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown. He later moved to Port Elizabeth where he was employed in a pharmacy and became local chairman of the party. Turning …

… the periphery of organised politics over many years, Tema in 1937 served as chairman of a committee in the Transvaal charged with reviving the  African National … of  A. B Xuma  and passage of the  Programme of Action in 1949 , he withdrew his support for what he regarded as the …

… Shaun Pollock was born on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. … he was signed up by the Natal Dolphins as opening batsman. In 1995 he played his international debut game against the visiting English squad. In 2000 he was unexpectedly given the South African captaincy …