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… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Ethics, Logic, Philosophy and Psychology. … Town: Kwela Books|Verwey, E.J. (ed) 1999. New dictionary of South African biography. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, …

… His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William Crawley. After spending … Anglo Boer War (Second South African War ) with the Inns of Court Rifles, he came to South Africa in 1902, when on the …

… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the classical section of the Commercial High School.  She then attended the University of the Witwatersrand where, as a student of social …

… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He did not complete his studies there  because of his political activism, and left the country to go into …

… 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained … Johannesburg Bar.  A keen soccer player, he was a member of the University’s soccer team and was selected for the … in 1952.  Chaskalson acted as defence counsel in a number of important political trials during the apartheid era, …

… born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with … in the most influential courts in the country as Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in 1989 and Justice of the …

… was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian … in a Zulu kingdom which survived not only the death of its founder but later military defeat and calculated attempts to break it up. Shaka was a son of Senzangakhona, ruler of an insignificant small chiefdom, …

… up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980, an LL.M. from the University of Sydney with first class honours in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the University of London (London School of Economics) in 1988. For four …

… she has also worked as a sculptor whose portrayal of African people gave her white counterparts insight into the African ways of life. In 1927, Irma won the Prix d’Honneur at the Bordeaux … in South Africa” in 1963. She was also awarded a medal of honour for her paintings by the Suid-Afrikanse Akademie …

… (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. He was the owner of an eating-house in the city, which in due course became a … for black politicians. In 1933 he was a committee member of the then-Bapedi National Club in Johannesburg, a … Moretsele's commitment to and love for his tribe of origin, the Pedi of the North-Eastern Transvaal, which …

… November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. Although … from the South African Native College (later University of Fort Hare). Madiba's teaching career started in July 1929 … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography , v.1, Pretoria: HSRC …

… Naledi Pandor was born on 7th of December, in 1953  Durban . She received most of her education in exile and matriculated at Gaborone … She obtained a BA in History and English at the University of Botswana in 1977 before leaving for overseas where she … Minister of Education - Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor [online] Available …

… England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, Georgiana Lennox, with whom he …

… Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian, Coloured mother and a Muslim shopkeeper. He … by his father Yusuf Howa, who was a prominent member of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), which stood for … African Council on Sport and the political antinomies of the sports boycott.  Journal of Southern African Studies , …

… born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate, Sir Marshall … words, she acquired "an enthusiasm for History, and a love of historical places".  She was a book collector and … Craighall, Johannesburg: Ad Donker.| Directory entries of Archival Repositories 1999 [Online]. Available at: …

… kwaZulu-Natal ). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at the ‘non-White’ section of the University of Natal. She obtained a medical degree (MB ChB) from Natal …

… Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a taxi owner. In 1927 … 1940 the Alexandra Bus Owners' Association was forced out of the market by a combination of legislation to entrench the …

… (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he obtained a BA in 1951 and an LLB in … president from 1952 to 1954. He was also vice-president of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in 1953 and 1954, and its … from Natalia ”“ Natal Society Foundation (courtesy of Sunday Times) [online] Available at www. natalia.org.za . …

… Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His father was … man who decided to move to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the South … awarded the Beit Scholarship. After refusing this because of his family’s move back to South Africa, he took the matric …

… the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) .  He co-founded the … in 1983 and was elected as its first President. At the age of 23, Mashatile was elected the Assistant General Secretary …

… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal . Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of Chief Ngedee Shezi. The daughter of peasant farmers who were later forced to become farm …

… Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, he was educated in Johannesburg. He began work at the age of 16 and became an active trade unionist, serving as … Contribution of biography by Leon Levy, 31 October, 2011.| South African …

… Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape. He was raised on a farm by his … from 1965 to 1968. He then left to study at the University of Fort Hare an obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 …

… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation, paper delivered at the … as Dikobe Ben Martins. His poetry anthologies ‘baptism of fire (1984) and ‘prison poems (1992) published by Ad …

… Siopis’ work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the politics of the body. She has also continually engaged with the …

… (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew … Sibasa, Limpopo . In 1972 he registered at the University of the North (Turfloop) for a BProc degree. He became …

… Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a secretary. He … attended Pretoria Boys High. On matriculating, at the end of 1969, he enrolled for a BA degree at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating with majors in Political …

… before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the … is appropriate because it is a modern rendering in bronze of an important figure in the court of the traditional Zulu kings and chiefs, a contemporary work …

… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was … his parents encouraged lively debate in the family of 10. A consistent concern for human justice stems from … on 23 June 2011 | Anon, (2011) Asmal hailed as giant of the liberation struggle from Mail & Guardian online, 23 …

… "First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the … more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness of the game." Malcolm Payne majored in printing and printmaking at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). He then followed his studies in …