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… (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a descendant of a German immigrant, Johann Barthold Hertzog, and Susanna …

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) where she graduated with BA in 1963 … Unity Movement (NEUM – now known as the New Unity Movement of South Africa).  After completing her university degrees, …

… She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square society photographer and Yvonne, … State Institute for Photography in Munich. She is one of the first South African women to study photography …

… Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the … Light Horse unit in the Anglo-Boer War . On the death of his father he was sent to board at St John’s College … the fight against Nazism after the ostentatious jubilation of a German pupil at reports in The Star of the sinking of …

… in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within the strict …

… . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town, where he became one of the most popular and respected lecturers. He was a …

… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. … South africa, 1979. Spread across the map like fragments of buckshot, two hours by car from Johannesburg, lie seven tracts of leftover farmland, united by nothing but their supposed …

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended school in Johannesburg. After … working at Amato Textiles, he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage. He influenced other workers …

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended school in Johannesburg. After … working at Amato Textiles, he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage. He influenced other workers …

… born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John … until she remarried a few years later.Together with many of his black revolutionary contemporaries, Hodgson experienced the hardship of poverty from an early age and gained a deep appreciation …

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting … support him. This strengthened his belief in the necessity of worker organisation within factories. From 1969-71, … South African Institute of Race Relations , Race Relations Survey, 1984, …

… Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South African liberation movement, died of natural causes on August 18 at the age of 97. Professor …

… where he matriculated in 1956. Following three months of military training in Pretoria during 1957, he began work for the Department of Justice in the magistrate’s offices of Keimoes and Upington. Between 1959 and 1966 he served as …

… Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Sir Garnet Wolseley, British administrator of Natal, …

… Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and … from Boston University (United States), and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of York …

… Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was born of a musical family. Her grandfather and his sons were … amateur organist. Her mother's family included a number of singers in choral societies in northern England, one of …

… Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and … French polishing and the buying and selling of second hand furniture. In 1932 he sent for his family – … his wandering and developed roots in the small town of Dundee in northern Natal. Four more children were born. …

… Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress  (ANC) from December 1952 … was the most widely known and respected African leader of his era. A latecomer to politics, the Chief was 54 when he assumed the leadership of the ANC. Over the course of his political career his …

… vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a vocalist of high reputation and earning power. For seventeen years she … position in Vienna, where she reigned as first coloratura of the famed State Opera. "Prima donna" can also indicate a singer of temperament; capricious by nature, imperious, and …

… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  Walter  and  … Swaziland . She studied Latin in preparation to the study of law at the Leeds University in London. However, her dream …

… was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a businessman, and his wife Fathima. … to work as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at the University of Natal. Research on the …

… The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on 5 January 1938 during the height of British colonialism. He attended Kamandura, Manguu and …

…  Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now … Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest of seven children of farm workers,who later purchased their own land.Mangena … www.azapo.org.za  [Accessed 29 September 2012]| Minister of Science and Technology: Mosibudi Mangena, Mr , from the  …

… school situated in Rosettenville, and not the school of the same name at Crown Mines.) Nokwe then proceeded to the South African Native College (University of Fort Hare) where he obtained a B.Sc. degree in 1949 and a … became acquainted with politics early in his life. One of his teachers in Johannesburg was  Oliver Tambo , a leader …

… in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home … he was ten years old and went coal mining in the forest of Dean, Wales. At the age of nineteen, Long joined the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal …

… Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to Durban to educate his sons Dawood, … the political struggle in 1938. He was elected secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA – now the South …

… King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth,  Shaka Zulu  was … Binns, C.T. (1963). The Last Zulu King: The Life and Death of Cetshwayo, London: Longman| Biography of Cetshwayo …

… Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, … was Mokgatle Mokgatle (Sekete) the paramount Chief of the Bakwena tribe of Mmanape of Tshukudu in Phokeng, Rustenburg. Mokgatle's … Makhura, T.J. (1999) . The New Dictionary of South Africa biography, Volume 2 . Department of History, …

… born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD … FÁ¼r Bildende KÁ¼nste, in Hamburg. For the most part of the 1970s, the artist became an active critic of the …

… father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his … mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced the ancient religion of the Zulu people. The missionaries forbade his father to … time it was still a great shame to have a child born out of wedlock. When the pregnancy was discovered, a scandal …