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BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
… D. He was released from Robben Island after serving 16 years in March 1984. When he was released he returned to …
BiographySiphiwe Tshabalala
… All in all, he played 91 times for his country, scoring 12 goals. …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… the farm Wilgespruit north of present-day Roodepoort. 1886 12 April, George Walker and George Harrison obtain permission … the discovery of payable gold on…
BiographyMoyisile Douglas Tyutyu
… to 25 years in prison and arrived on Robben Island on 16 December 1984. He remained in jail until he was granted …
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
… of the day. Outside the long narrow block of cells, about 12 feet wide, was an equally long exercise yard. Running down …
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… gleaned from a poem about herself published in Umteleli on 12 January 1924. She depicts herself as a fearless and …
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
… in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the …
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
… at the request of his son. Kekana, however, died on 12 April 1887 in Leeukraal, to the north of Hammanskraal and …
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… and the Select Committee on the Constitution in 1983. On 12 October 1978 Coetsee became Deputy Minister of Defence and …
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to …
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… on 27 April 2006, the day South Africa was celebrating 12 years of freedom. He is survived by his wife Asha and four …
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… repairing it, he managed the make the 60-mile trip in 12 hours and with the help of Canon John Collins's Christian …
Statement by Reverend Gabriel Seteloane at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979
… Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979 …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… Students Association (ASA) was established on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African … Crowds fleeing from bullets on the day of…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) . In 1953, at the age of 16, Dinat left school to work in a family-owned bicycle store …
BiographyWolf Kibel
… Wolf Kibel was born in Grodzisk, near Warsaw, Poland on 16 December 1903. As a young boy Kibel was preoccupied with …
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… Allied Workers Union (GAWU) and participated in the June 16 stay-away of that year. His employer saw a newspaper …
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
… sought revenge. In the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838 , 470 Voortrekkers, led by Andries …
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
… had an elder brother and a younger sister. From the age of 16, he sat in on discussions with people who came to discuss …
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was…
BiographyGisele Wulfsohn
… is survived by her husband, Mark Turpin, twin sons of 16, Joseph and Samuel, her mother, Perla, two sisters, Diane …
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… sing and cheer on the campaigners. On the night of Sunday, 16 June, white hooligans overran the camp, took away all the …
BiographyLesley Lawson
… Africa: The Cordoned Heart , 1985 Speak Collective No. 16 Aug - Oct, 1987 Publications by Lesley Lawson Working …
BiographySadie Forman
… . (Accessed on 16 March 2021) Mail & Guardian. (2014). Resilient in the … [online]. Available at: https://mg.co.za/article/2014-12-18-resilient-in-the…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… that spoke directly to humanity and human rights. In 1961 the apartheid government declared the country a Republic …
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… to be jailed at the Fort Prison but were only acquitted in 1961. Diedericks was further banned by the government from … . (Accessed on 16 April 2020)…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
… Prison in Benoni, East Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On 12 June 1986 he was detained at New Prison, Pietermaritzburg, …
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… co-ordinated over 190 acts of sabotage between October 1961 and July 1963. There were no deaths or injuries. 1976: … and Apex (Transvaal).Train driver…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… Treaty is signed between Boer and British leaders. 1908 12 October, The first National Convention representing the … for the establishment of a non-racial…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… parents of Richard (Dick) Dudley who they got to know. In 1961 in terms of the Group Areas Act the Dudley’s were forced … Some of the more notable trials…