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… to award the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize to Bishop Desmond Tutu. …

… Dr Desmond Tutu receives the Officer of the French Legion of Honour …

… announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit …

… Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult …

… The government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Anglican General Secretary of the South African …

… This day in history marks the first time the term Apartheid was mentioned in Parliament by Dr Malan. For Dr Malan, Apartheid was a practice and an ideology to ensure the safety … by the maintenance of principles of separate development. Apartheid as a term soon gained currency, going untranslated …

… He matriculated in Ulundi, Northern Natal. Mathunjwa got his first job as laboratory attendant at Rand Coal in 1986, … Salvation Army, the Christian church known for charitable work and evangelic fervour. He worked as the laboratory … seen little improvement in their lives two decades after apartheid ended. Mathunjwa led the mineworkers strike in …

… Robert Heights, later Voortrekkerhoogte, in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and later an executive … O'Malley attended seven different school before completing his matric at Jeppe Boys High in Johannesburg. By this time … ensured that his newspaper reported on the evils of apartheid and government misbehaviour. He was once summoned …

… shot in the head and forearm by the police. He left behind his mother, father, brother, two sisters and nephew, who all depended on him financially. According to his mother, Mavalithibuba Jijase, “I was heartbroken and felt … he would either get the pay increase or be dismissed from work.” …

… farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an English … school. In 1874 the family moved to Pretoria, where his father had founded De Volksstem a year earlier. Here he … in 1877 when England annexed Pretoria. After one year's work at his father's newspaper he went on to school in …

… father, Cetshwayo had rivals from the chiefdom who opposed his supporters. This led to a civil war. Dinizulu’s relatives … Dinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus. …

… from the activities already mentioned, she did support work for the  1946 mineworkers' strike , the  Indian Passive … was producing up to 15 stories a week. Despite this high work rate, her writing remained vivid, accurate and often … settled in North London and First threw herself into anti-apartheid politics, joining the Anti-Apartheid Movement , …

… He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977, at the age of 33, … 1980’s in which he added to the record of open defiance of apartheid and active resistance in South Africa. Today …

… Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his political career when he became vice president of the BCM … affiliate, the Black People’s Convention (BPC). Through his writing, Shezi introduced his BCM ideas to a wider … courage and contribution to the performing arts and anti-apartheid activism.  …

… Obie Oberholzer. John Hodgkiss was based in Johannesburg. His close friend, fellow artist and colloborator, Steve Cohen … artist, William Kentridge, photographing extensively in his studio and on several of his theatre productions, and … Kentridge. He has done important documentary and archival work for galleries in Johannesburg and has worked with many …

… doctor from the University of Cape Town (UCT), completing his degree in 1942. His achievement predates the previously … to Islam in South Africa, including translating his 1877 work Bayân al-Dîn into an early form of written Afrikaans … daughter, who would later become a prominent anti-apartheid political leader. After matriculating from …

… Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born.  He grew up in … 6a.m house arrest.After being fired for staying away from work during the 1976 student uprising,Marks became a … fruit and vegetable hawker in 1976 after he was fired from his position as a foreman in a construction company for …

… Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port … School, a well- known sports school where first displayed his cricket skills. While at the school he was selected to … coloured player, Basil D'Oliveira in the team was against apartheid policies. Prime Minister J.B.Vorster refused …

… and spent time making art objects.  He continued with his primary education at Mkhomazi on the Natal South Coast … objects. He attended the Mzuzu H.P. School and completed his primary education at the Mzwamandla H.P. School. He has … in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1989. He has also exhibited his work at the African Art Centre, Durban. At present he is a …

… to research people and their spaces. He then moved on to work at the urban problems research unit at UCT and produced … they did on Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town, gave him his appreciation for the diversity of South African cites and … He is now working fulltime as a photographer and has had work published in De Kat, House and Leisure, Style, …

… was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him at school until … was exposed. On the morning of 21 November 1980, the Apartheid security forces surrounded Jabane’s Tshiawelo …

… 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him Looksmart because when he was … local high school, until Standard Six when he left to work on the mines in Johannesburg. Ngudle worked as a … the Crown Mines goldmine for two years before returning to his home village to take part in the traditional circumcision …

… was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His early clay animals and figures were made with the aid of … encouraged by C. G. Damant, who discovered Makoanyane's work in 1931, to depict Basuto (Sotho) people rather than the …

… that include the International Human Rights Award from the American Bar Association in 1994, and Honorary Doctorates … Arts and development of Science as Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and faculty member of …

… poet, painter and activist, received the Hertzog Prize for his two Afrikaans poetry volumes, an elegy 'Oorblyfsels: 'n … Sunday newspaper. Breytenbach was a committed opponent of apartheid and left South Africa in 1960, settling in Paris in 1962 with his Viëtnamese wife Yolande Ngo Thi Hoang Lien. He returned …

… of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party was ready to give the President's Council a chance … by the National Party (NP) in 1948, which then introduced Apartheid policy. He became the founding member and the … splintering after 1959 when MPs, including veteran anti-apartheid fighter Helen Suzman. …

… League branch. After matriculating he became involved in his community and was elected in 1987 as the first General … run, he managed to mobilize and organize people against apartheid. The police threatened his family almost daily even with death in their efforts to …

… in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary school headmaster announced that students would … German and demanding to be taught Hebrew. Goldreich got his way.Goldreich moved to Israel to fight in the … Communist Party which was forced underground by the apartheid state. Lilliesleaf Farm also became the secret …

… an attitude of mind which is basic to the policy of apartheid, namely, that South Africa is populated by people … South Africa Act, 1909, as amended.       But Hertzog and his Party were not the originators of the concept of "people" … an African to disobey his master, to absent himself from work without permission or good cause, or to commit some …

… Former President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with family and friends at his Qunu home, Eastern Cape Province. …