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… Barney Lekgotla Molokoane was born on 27 August 1957 in Tladi, Soweto.  Molokoane became politically active during … and like many of his contemporaries he went into exile. In exile, he joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  and … to the ideals of the ANC and MK. Although he was gifted in many fields, he was always eager to learn through …

… born on 1 June 1919. He joined the  Natal Indian Congress  in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his arrest on 1 September 1963. At that time … 90-Day Detention Law and was subsequently charged in the Natal sabotage trial sitting at Pietermaritzburg and …

… President of the Swiss-SA Association; Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen, … of the Swiss business community. To be able to do so twice in one day is therefore a special privilege and a great … to be here personally tonight - perhaps it is not so in business, but in government the boss sometimes has more …

… UNIP most sincerely for allowing us to hold our conference in this country. We are especially grateful for the … share the view that the ANC has raised mass political consciousness to a scale unknown in our experience. It is in … the countryside, including those in the bantustans. The black workers are of special importance in this regard and …

… UNIP most sincerely for allowing us to hold our Conference in this country. We are especially grateful for the … share the view that the ANC has raised mass political consciousness to a scale unknown in our experience. It is in … the countryside, including those in the Bantustans. The Black workers are of special importance in this regard and …

… conditions. 1840s and 1850s The shrinking hunting frontier in Pedi territories forced many young men into migrant … mine owners showed a propensity to increase the numbers of Black miners over their white counterparts. This led to the … ensured that they passed legislation that marginalized Black workers. 1918-1929 The period saw the emergence of the …

… Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an … particularly good at maths, Maponya was less interested in lessons than in pursuing his various entrepreneurial …

… Robert Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City … used for SASA's first exhibitions: the Drill Hall and, in the centre, the City Hall, which opened in 1905. The view is taken from an upper window in the former …

… Jacob Dumdum Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the … Workers' Union. After studying first for a diploma in agriculture at Adams College and then beginning the study … of the left-wing South African Congress of Trade Unions in the mid-1950s, and eventually in 1959 he formed the …

… year old boy at the time of the Soweto Youth Uprising in 1976. He is widely believed to be the first boy who was … day, sustaining an injury to his head from which he died in hospital. The Coloured doctor at Chris Hani Baragwanath … Malcolm Klein, described what he saw that afternoon in grim detail: “a bullet wound to one side of his head, …

… Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam … uprising against the sole use of the Afrikaans language in schools. He was 12 at the time of his death. A postmortem …

… Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first … Committee (ANC) Executive Committee during the 1950s, and in 1954 was also elected as National president of the  … anti-pass demonstrations of the 1950s and was instrumental in the organisation of the Congress of the People. In 1956, …

… The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale. [i] … world outside disappeared both socially and physically, in a building from which those inside could not see out and those outside could not see in. In his thesis ‘Drawing Blood: writing architecture at the …

… Century! The first-ever Pan African Congress was held in London one hundred years ago, in the year 1900. At that … A century later, the political circumstances of the black people have changed radically. After major struggles … to do our work, throughout the year, to raise the level of consciousness among all road users about the value of human …

… Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged to … display. She was taken to London where she was displayed in a building in Piccadilly, a street that was full of …

… Lulu Dube was born in Inanda in 1931. She was the third child born to John Langalibalele … surviving daughter. Her father, John, was instrumental in establishing the Ohlange school , which all of his …

… Siva Pillay was a B.Sc. student at university in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), when he joined uMkhonto … “Coetsee” Naicker, and Siva Pillay. They provided training in making and using explosives and other materials for sabotage and participated in the first MK attack in Natal on 16 December 1961. However, …

… the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the Dlamini clan in 1815. He was determined to expand his authority, but was …

… A young Krotoa, of about 10 or 11 years old, was taken in by Jan van Riebeeck during the first few days of Dutch settlement in the Cape. She worked as a servant to the Commander’s wife, … van Riebeek (nee de la Quellerie), and is first mentioned in van Riebeeck’s diary in January 1654 as ‘a girl who had …

… and its master servant relationship as between white and black. This development was the necessary result of … stretching from Delagoa Bay to the North, to Algoa Bay in the South. A last group, the Sotho, originally occupied … organisations at this embryonic stage of his political consciousness. Kimberley offered four organisation options by …

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate degree in law at the Turfloop University (now University of the …

… Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth" (Plaatjie, S.T. (1916). Native Life … of a number of African "reserves" for the settlement of Black South Africans, which would serve as pools of migrant … and thereby formalised the separation of White and Black rural areas; The Act established a South African Native …

… Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe was born 5 September 1890 in Kimberley. He obtained his Senior Teacher's Diploma and … and 1924, while teaching at the Tiger Kloof Institution in Vryburg. In 1938, Tyamzashe’s wife with whom he had six children died …

… Davies was born on Robben Island in 1909, where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944 she transferred to the Transvaal Archives Depot. In …

… into a state of slavery’. Gumede, April 1930. INTRODUCTION In 1930 Gumede had taken the initiative to call for a … sympathy with the CPSA, who alone pleaded the cause of the Black proletariat. Undoubtedly, Gumede’s dream of ‘creating … and others overlooked the fact that Gumede’s political consciousness was not shaped on the same principles as those …

… Vincent “Toivo” Tshabalala was born in Bethal in Mpumalanga on 15 August 1964 where he also grew up. … politically influenced at a young age by the Bethal Trial in 1977 where a number of Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) …

… Nyiko Floyd Shivambu was born on 1 January 1983 in Malamulele, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo ). He studied at Mphambo High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, …

… John Hodgkiss was born on 25 September 1966 in Johannesburg. He studied fine art Rhodes University. Here … photographer Obie Oberholzer. John Hodgkiss was based in Johannesburg. His close friend, fellow artist and … used by the art community, and he abused himself in providing service, running the machine at the wrong pace, …

… Africans, and not only for his organisation, the ANC. In his honour, we have declared the year 2017, the Year of … two years into our freedom and democracy, the majority of black people are still economically disempowered. They are … times more than black households, according to Statistics SA. The situation with regards to the ownership of the …

… Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured … of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the 1950s. In 1962 he attended an international labor conference in …