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… associated with the struggle for National Union of Distributive Workers. She was a member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth until 1940. After her stint in the Labour Party. In …

… In the early 1950s she was elected Assistant Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and the Dairy Workers Union. … 1954, Hashe served on the Transvaal Provincial Executive of the ANC, and became the first woman regional chairperson of the West Rand region of Congress. In 1956, she was the …

… he studied art under Walter Battiss at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of Pretoria from where he graduated with an Honours degree in … the Arts in 1960. Shortly after, he joined the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) as a lecturer in sociology before …

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, Queen Thomo. He was educated at the Bekezulu College of Chiefs and then privately tutored. He lived at his … a regent was appointed to look after the administration of the Royal affairs while the young Zwelithini completed his …

… Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA and SOD) and Cape Town (MA in Afrikaans-Nederlands). Within two years of starting a career as a high school teacher in Cradock she became editor of  Die Huisgenoot  (1946-1948) and thereafter a full-time …

… the  Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) during the state of emergency after the banning of the organization in 1960. He soon became chairperson of the PAC in the Vaal River area and made a substantial … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995).  New Dictionary of South African  Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC|T. Lodge …

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda McKenzie. He attended Melbourne Road … and darkroom equipment —thus starting his lifelong love of the still image. McKenzie then studied photography at the Technikon Natal (now the Durban University of Technology - DUT), becoming the first person of colour to …

… Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now … His political consciousness was awakened at the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal – UKZN) in Durban in the early 1970s as an …

… Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated at St Oswald's School …

… was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black township's political upheaval. Sexwale attended … Ravan, pp. 276-278|Hayes, S. (ed) (2000). Who’s Who of Southern Africa 2001”¦, Graighall: Jonathan Ball, p. 317| …

… Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant family of Tswana origin. Largely self-taught, he received only a few …

… missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, … and graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge at the age of 26. She married Godfrey Wilson in 1935.  They had two … three years in the field in western Tanzania just north of Lake Malawi, where she and her husband became thoroughly …

… Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa … a poem published on 2 December 1922, lamenting the death of her mother, she gives her mother's as Emmah Jane Mgqwetto, …

… is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical List of political prisoners  and banned persons in South Africa … a complete re-trial had to take place following the death of the trial judge on 7 November. The re-trial took place …

… off the land. Mabhida could not pursue his studies because of the financial constraints experienced by his family. His … political motivators were his father, a dedicated member of Clements Kadalie's Industrial and Commercial Workers Union … and Harry Gwala , a young teacher in Mabhida's last year of school, who introduced his students to socialist ideas. …

… time with his uncle where he assisted him with the running of the bakery business. He started his schooling in 1951 at … Primary School. The school was closed down as a result of strikes against passes for women. This disrupted his studies. During the 5 months of disruption, he worked on a manganese mine for 75 cents per …

… village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo ). . Lumumba’s tribe was the Batetela (Tetela) which is a dynamic branch of the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo [1] . He grew up …

… Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his … Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth . Bisho was one of a group of Ethiopian …

… was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa in 1910. He was considered a liberal in the … in South Africa in 1849, where his father became Bishop of Grahamstown. He went to the Diocesan College in Rondebosch …

… born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from … Standard 8, but did not complete his schooling as a result of the school’s closure due to ongoing riots. He joined the  … to be trained as an  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  “The Spear of the Nation” soldier. The training was received in Angola …

… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State University Albert Luthuli's place … turned from elite protest to civil disobedience and mass action during Luthuli's tenure as president of the …

… Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé Levetan) First. … born in Latvia and came to South Africa in 1906 at the age of 10. Matilda came to South Africa from Lithuania when she was four years old. They were founder members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, later South …

… she became fascinated and involved in the trade union work of her uncle Rev. Marawu. She attended school first in Elsies … ( Eastern Cape ) to escape the dangerous influences of township living. The change was a welcome one.  When I was … see a policeman, no thugs, no harassments. Collecting dung of the cow was a hobby to me instead of going to a shop to …

… Queenstown, Eastern Cape home, will go down in the annals of South African music as one of the jazz pioneers who played a pivotal role in the birth and evolution of our kind of jazz. History will also remember him as the …

… strict Christian household sheltered from the realities of what was happening in South Africa politically and socially. He was drafted out of high school to the South African Army. (He was one of the few men at his school who was drafted.) After the … 2012]| Sithole, J. and Ndlovu, S., 2006. “The Revival of the Labour Movement, 1970-1980” in South African …

… was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of World War II , digging anti-tank trenches in his youth, to …

… political activist Ruth First . Kgositsile, being a member of the African National Congress  (ANC), through the … In one interview he was quoted as saying: "In a situation of oppression, there are no choices beyond didactic writing: either you are a tool of oppression or an instrument of liberation." In 1961, under …

… high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare. He became the secretary of the Laundry Workers Union as well as a member of the ANC in Soweto. At the age of 34 he was admitted to the … A, (1975), Statement by the ANC on the expulsion of a Conspiratorial Clique , from the African National …

… Hindus and various followers split, following the marriage of the Indian government's agent, a Muslim, to a Hindu woman. An avid learner, Kajee read lot of political literature and took a special interest in the political affairs of the Indians in South Africa. He entered the political …

… Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in … (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the youngest of eight children. His father was a Minister and teacher who … 1951 and became Organising Secretary for Northern Rhodesia of the: 'Northern Rhodesian African National Congress.' In …