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… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a … entering the country, as he was not accompanied by any one of his parents. He smuggled his way into the country and went to live with family members in the tiny mining town of Hattingspruit, near Dundee. He worked there for about four …

… Aliwal North. In the 1890s he was ordained as a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC), but after a … Church in South Africa and by 1910 served as the secretary of that church. Later he held the post of president of the church for more than sixteen years. …

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School … In 1974, she enrolled as a student with the University of Durban Westville. During her studies she took a year off …

… 1953 in Durban, South Africa.  Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and 1976. In 1975 Ngcobo graduated from the University of Zululand with a B Proc (Bachelor of Law), earning distinctions in constitutional law, …

… up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the country's small but influential Gujarati Vhora Muslim … from India in the first decade following the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 . His father, Ebrahim Badsha, was a …

… was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape . After her parents’ divorce, Jonker experienced a childhood of material deprivation and emotional setbacks. In her early … beyond her years. She started writing poetry at the age of six and her first published poems appeared in her high …

… Cameron later attained his LLB from the University of South Africa cum laude, and was awarded the Johannes Voet … 1986 conducted a human rights practice from the University of the Witwatersrand’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies … who had been charged with treason. He also took on cases of conscientious and religious objection, land tenure and …

… State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer, at the time a member of the Bloemfontein Bar. Percy later became a much-respected … father was Abram Fischer, a highly regarded politician of conservative outlook. He was the prime minister of the …

… Herbert Henry Curson, the eldest son of Henry Charles Curson, was born on 22 September 1892 in … this time he won 14 medals and qualified as a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. From January 1915 until March 1917 …

… a National Teacher’s Certificate from Mngwenya College of Education in 1985. He furthered his studies at University of South Africa (UNISA) with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989. Mabuza has been involved in politics …

… Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of Information from 1972, while  Dr Connie Mulder  was …

… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later to be renamed the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA). After graduating with a teaching …

… The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to work very closely with … Davis, G. (2015).  'PIC lost R100bn within 48hrs of Nene’s axing'   from EWN online, 10 May 2016. Available …

… was Lij Tafari Makonnen. He was the only surviving son of the governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael. Selassie traced his … back to Menelik I, who was credited with being the child of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was raised a … Tafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia , from South African History Online [online] …

… was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland … for further theological studies. In 1848 at the age of nineteen he experienced a conversion to Christianity. He … Governor, Sir Harry Smith sent Murray to serve the whole of Orange River Sovereignty which consisted of four parishes, …

… he enrolled in 1942 for an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a student at the Stellenbosch … Seminary until 1945. During these years he was a member of the Student Representative Council, Chairman of the Students’ Christian Association (SCA) and chairman of …

… studied as a non-degree student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 1987. He has exhibited both in South Africa … his works can be found in many collections, most notably of which, in the University of South Africa's (UNISA) Art …

… the interpreter for African languages at the Supreme Court of Griqualand West at Kimberley””a post which he held for … years while he was promoting the expansion and improvement of local Africa schools,sport facilities and musical groups. … he also had to interpret for dignitaries such as the Earl of Athlone and his wife. Princess Alice, S.C. Buxton (first …

… in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four … with additional income.   He matriculated at 15 years of age in 1926, and went on to read law at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a BA LLB in 1931, six months …

… When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist Statement’ was, she replied, … statement’ as such. Being a woman is only one aspect of who I am.” This aversion to being strictly categorized or … into a specific box is apparent in the complex layers of Searle’s work; characterised by a desire to belong, yet …

… an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (UCT). Williamson was trained as a … issues pertaining to civil activism, citizenry, senses of community or aspects of contemporary history as told from the perspectives of … Bester, R. (2005),  Review of Sue Williamson’s better lives exhibition , …

… was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved … by the actions it witnesses as much as by the enclosure of its walls’. [ii] With the arrival of the first large group of enslaved persons in ‘late March …

… philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained a D … a lecturer at the University College, Durban (University of Durban-Westville, now University of kwaZulu-Natal), and in …

… was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal , a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). He showed an interest in art as a child, and by the age of 17 he was working as an artist, predominately in watercolour. In 1970, he brought some of his paintings to the South African Association of Arts and …

… 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a Methodist … In 1956, Boraine was ordained and received his Bachelor of Arts from Rhodes University. Later that year Boraine served as a Chaplain at the University of Natal (now the University of kwaZulu-Natal), and also as …

… David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, he was born on 29 November 1930 in the small mining town of Randfontein, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). David …

… attracted to Marxism at 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group was left-wing and multi-racial, mostly Indians, many of them made up of communist party members who constituted the left wing or … Interrogation notes written by A Thorne on the day of his interrogation (2.2.1966)|Interview done with Sylvia …

… at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport operator who ran a …

… Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold Medallist of Dublin University and became a D. Litt. in 1918. From 1919-1920, he was assistant Professor of Indian Economics at the University of Madras, and from …

… in Utrecht, Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), was the son of Jan Daniel and Louisa Steyn. Steyn spent his early youth …