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… when Mashinini was 14, and she was forced to drop out of school and go to work. At age 17, she married, and went on … Mbuvelo at the time. Mashinini was also present at the Congress of the People in Kliptown in 1955. At the factory, … In 1985, Mashinini was involved in the formation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a body that …

… Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now … scholarship fund to educate and skill the African National Congress (ANC) and UDF activists to develop a progressive … also a member of the Alliance Secretariat [ANC, SACP and Congress of South African Trade Unions – Cosatu], and …

… Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi … Frans Modise, a railworker, was an African National Congress (ANC) activist. The students uprising in 1976 in her … to the Huhudi community. She started the African National Congress Women League (ANCWL) branch in Huhudi, and is a …

… was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in … ideology, and Ngubane co-authored with Lembede the Congress Youth League Manifesto of 1944. Later that year he … attended the inaugural convention of the  Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) as an observer and thereafter became known as …

… 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a … deployed troops on bloody raids against African National Congress bases in Lesotho , Mozambique , Zambia and Zimbabwe … Freedom Party and other opponents of the African National Congress.   In 1995, he was charged together with other …

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League … where he became an organiser for the  African National Congress  (ANC) following the falling out between the ICU and … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist … his release, Morobe returned to politics and joined the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and served on the Executive of the Soweto Youth Congress. He also became involved with the General and Allied …

… Born 1904. Insurance agent. Joined Congress in 1937; active in 1943 anti-pass campaign and 1949 …

… and briefly took up law studies. He became a member of the national working committee of the Youth League and was … the international boycott movement. As an African National Congress (ANC) representative in Ghana in 1960, he … in the short-lived United Front with the Pan Africanist Congress abroad. He later worked with the ANC in Lusaka. …

… 1921 Alexander Township , Johannesburg . She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified … 1952 Defiance Campaign  and joined the African National Congress (ANC) . She came into contact with the ANC leaders … Mandela . Florence was instrumental in organising the Congress of the People, which adopted the  Freedom Charter …

… home home library articles & documents   A Distant clap of thunder: Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike A … the first Secretary General of the African National Congress, paid a passionate tribute in 1914 to the "two … came from a meeting of the Transvaal African National Congress Executive in 1941. The records state that a proposal …

… in his first suit, presented to him by the Paramount Chief of the abaThembu, Jongintaba Dalindyebo. © Mayibuye Centre. … him under his wing. Sisulu had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940 and would prove to have a great … Dr. Yusuf Dadoo in making the Transvaal and Natal Indian Congress es become mass-based and militant organisations. …

… 1937; helped the 1946 African miners' strike; and a key Congress figure in Newclare. …

… Garment Workers’ Union . She joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in 1948, was elected to the Transvaal executive of the  ANC Women’s League  in 1954, and in 1955 became the … secretary. She was also on the executive committee of the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)  and …

… As part of the governmental process for transformation of … Education Minister Naledi Pandor and African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema meet in … to pay the costs of the court application. SA Students Congress (Sasco) and the University's SRC launch an appeal to …

… delivered by the ANC President, Nelson Mandela, Chancellor of the University of the North, at the occasion of the Investec presentation …

… Mandela at the Official Banquet at the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-aligned Countries …

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his … was appointed recording secretary of the African National Congress under the presidency of the Rev. J.L. Dube. He …

… in 1928. He was a labourer. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) during the Defiance Campaign and became a …

… in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the  Communist Party of South … vice-president of the western Cape African National Congress (ANC), and he became a leader of the short-lived …

… Today, January 8, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. Through the length and breadth of South Africa and … in many parts of the world, anti-apartheid fighters and democrats - young and old, black and white - join hands to …

… School. From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications and in 1993 he was a contributing poet and …

… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, … the school stay-at-home.  Asmal met African National Congress (ANC) President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Chief … opposed apartheid on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC). From 1986, he served on the ANC’s …

… an early age. He did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, and then studied for a Masters Degree at Oxford … University. He trained for the priesthood at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, England, and later obtained … (specialising in Christian Ethics) from the University of Cape Town. In 1965 he was ordained as the 12th Bishop of …

… (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action Committee which was organized to deal with the increasing detention of anti apartheid struggle leaders. Mkhabelawas one of the founders of Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) … at: www.cihm.leeds.ac.uk [Accessed on 4 October 2011]|City of Johannesburg (08 July 2010) Mkhabela: in class of his own …

… stretched across more than 1.29 million square kilometres of West Africa, encompassing the headwaters of the Senegal and Niger rivers and controlling the most … Empire - known in Arabic sources as Dawlat Mālī - was one of the largest, wealthiest, and most culturally sophisticated …

… Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, … the late 1930s, he had been a member of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC ), CP, LSG, India League, National Protest Day … was listed in the US [United States of America – USA] Congress Report of 500 ‘most dangerous’ communists in the …

… be traced to the 18th century. This began with the arrival of Christian missionaries in 1858, who befriended King … grabbing settlers. Cecil John Rhodes who was the pioneer of the conquest of Zimbabwe, with his British South African Company (BSAC), … The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the …

… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a … the left wing, or Nationalist Block, of the  Natal Indian Congress . In 1942, Docrat became the secretary of the … Charter  campaign. In 1955, he was a delegate to the Congress of the People at Kliptown. During the 1960 State of …

… he was affectionately known was born in India to a family of progressive community activists in October 1935. He was … Dawood joined an underground cell of the African National Congress (ANC) and its armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in … a significant role in the revival of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the creation of the United Democratic …