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… an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). Following this, she worked as a teacher. … Strachan , who was later imprisoned for his description of prison life recounted in the now defunct Rand Daily Mail . … solitary confinement. As the police hammered on the door of Jean Middleton's flat in Johannesburg , South Africa, in …

… (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy Cooper. Cooper matriculated from … A. degree at the at the University College - an affiliate of the University of South Africa (UNISA) - Salisbury Island, Durban. As a … Gastrow, S. (1985).|Joyce, P. (1999). A Concise Dictionary of South African Biography , Cape Town: Francolin.|Highbeam …

… on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by … stint at diamond digging in Kimberley. Elected president of the newly formed Native Mine Clerks' Association in 1920, … as an African spokesman and became associated with the of the Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, Johannesburg, …

… through the ranks, ultimately becoming the Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union in the 1950s. Together … in addition to earning two diplomas in music. A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC), he participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and was involved in the historic drafting of the …

… Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in … his release, Fazzie became instrumental in the formation of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) along … in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and at the height of repression in the 1980s, is remembered for being one of …

… on to pursue further studies part time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Makhathini joined politics and devoted his time to organizing the people as an activist of the  African National Congress  (ANC). He became a key … in organizing the ANC's Pietermaritzburg Conference of March 1961. His political activism resulted in his …

… Ainslie in Johannesburg in the mid-1980s. Ka-Mkame speaks of them as 'milestones' that took his work to another level. His ‘love letters’ of the 1980s were created at the height of the turbulence of the apartheid era in South Africa; the …

… Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five children in her family. She was educated at the … abroad to study domestic science at the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science. After she qualified as a domestic …

… in 1962, into a farming family. He received a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes … initiates gathered in the indigenous bush in the foothills of the Northern Drakensberg mountains in a circumcision … With this series Hilton-Barber challenged the taboo of secrecy around such ceremonies, as well as that around the …

… born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi Lombard. … High School for Girls.  Faure had a post in a firm of attorneys and was at the same time trained in English …

… on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to the Durban Indian Girls’ School in … was the first Indian High school for girls. She was part of the first group of five Indian girls to matriculate in …

… was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in … his high school years in Soweto, Mabasa became aware of the political situation in the country through reading … African Student Organisation (SASO). His own experiences of mistreatment by the Security Police and having to produce …

… Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His literary … Cape. He began his tertiary studies at the University of Cape Town in 1958. His opposition to apartheid saw him …

… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role … rose to prominence in the 1950s as a leading activist of the anti-Coloured Affairs Department  and the Non-European … He became well known during his time as secretary of the South Peninsula Educational Fellowship which played an …

… in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. The latter was the prime minister of Sweden, a member of the Hague Tribunal, and governor of …

… Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile Ngcuka. Phumzile Ngcuka became the Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs in Thabo Mbeki’s cabinet. … 1977 Ngcuka completed his B Proc degree at the University of Fort Hare. In 1980 he was admitted to the legal profession …

… Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite … but they came to nothing. His death in 1938 marked the end of one era and the start of a new with the founding of the New Group. Francois was …

… Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, Booth was one of the earliest proponents of the principle of "Africa for the Africans." He was a …

… Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African …

… Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of …

… During the  1976 uprisings , Mokaba became a leader of school boycotts, which led to his expulsion from school. … own in 1978 and then went on to enrol with the University of the North in 1980. He was detained under the Terrorism Act … in 1977 and again in 1982 and was convicted for a number of his underground activities as a member of  Umkhonto we …

… Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's … where he distinguished himself as a student. After a year of premedical studies at Fort Hare, he studied medicine at …

… Congress (ANC) , and soon afterwards left teaching as part of the campaign to boycott Bantu Education . She moved onto … From 1958 to 1966 Shope was the chairperson of the Central Western Jabavu Branch of the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) . In the …

… in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a member of the African National Congress (ANC)’s National Executive Committee (NEC) , President of South African Congress of Trade Workers (SACTU) and a …

… Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the … involved in the trade union movement.  She became a member of the Congress of Democrats in her youth, and wrote several protest letters …

… on 15 July 1962 in  District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government declared it a … Claremont, Cape Town. He later enrolled at the University of Western Cape for a BA degree. It was during this period …

… a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of socialism to his last day. He threw himself into the work of linking the struggle for socialism in our country with the struggle for the national liberation of black people by cementing strong relations between the …

… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and waited for ten years to receive his first …

… well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long … European slaver traders arrived. They had a wide variety of political arrangements including kingdoms, city-states and … Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation …