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BiographyDavid Perumal
… six (grade eight) and had joined the Natal Indian Youth Congress (NIYC) at the age of 17. He had joined the NIYC, he said, because ‘the … Ebrahim (Ebie)…
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… and educated in the Cape Province . She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in the…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). The … Biko and was involved in the revival of the…
Opening address by Oliver Tambo to the Conference on “Whites in a changing South Africa”, Convened by the five Freedoms Forum and the African National Congress, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… by the five Freedoms Forum and the African National Congress, Lusaka, 1 July 1989 …
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
… 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…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… (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…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… Town in the 1930s. She grew up in the racially mixed area of Kensington. Her father, Sello Ramakaba, was from Lesotho … . Local meetings were organised by…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer … organisation, being a founder member and…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were … being the rise and eventual demise of the…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
… teacher. In 1970, as a young man he was active member of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BMCA) for … as a member of the BMCA and of the African…
BiographyIsaiah MacDonald Maseko
… A chairman of the Orlando African National Congress (ANC) during the … called the "Bafebagiya" group. He later became president of the Swaziland National…
BiographyBransby Ndobe
… , Bransby Ndobe did much to organise African National Congress (ANC) branches between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth … and also to radicalise Coloured farm…
BiographyAzhar Cachalia
… Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in … National Assembly in 1994, and the South…
BiographyDon Mattera
… grandparents not his parents. He grew up in the mixed area of Johannesburg called Sophiatown before the apartheid … of his life. He then joined the African…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The 1946 … the Ghetto Act, the 1952 Defiance of Six…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
… (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was … at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined the…
BiographyGoolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
… in 1925 and also organised a big reception for the Indian Congress leader, Maulana Shawkat Ali in the village Kholvad. … Tilley in 1933 and was elected in…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
… Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he … a pharmacy. In…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… way by being asked to open this exhibition; awhole stream of people have done far more than I have been able to do for … post for a few years because in 1964…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The … we Sizwe (MK) the liberation army of…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of Miriam and Ezekiel Modise. Modise completed his Junior … for various companies. Modise joined the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… The out break of the First World War had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, … Cresswell…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
… Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape. He attended the 1956 … return to…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to the … early as 1943 when he was a member of…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
… Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the … Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District…
BiographySimon Tyeku
… Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress in the … mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High School, … – the mayoral seat was won by the…
BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
… and Canning Workers' Union.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist Party (CP),and in 1955 … River which helped organized in the Western…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
… was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a … active household and began attending…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… student in 1974. Makwetla fled South Africa in the middle of his matriculation examinations in 1976 and matriculated … became a front commander and head of…