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… Town in the 1930s. She grew up in the racially mixed area of Kensington. Her father, Sello Ramakaba, was from Lesotho … although they were classified as African because of their father. Mildred attended the City Mission School in … Khojana, an ex-soldier. Rebelling against the attempts of her stepfather to obtain bride wealth from her prospective …

… Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10 children born to Tom Anderson, a miner of Danish descent, and Katherine Anderson, a descendant of a slave from the St Helena Islands. Her parents and family … www.disa.ukzn.ac.za [Accessed on 7 August 2012]|Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, (2000), Women …

… Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was … was selected as head prefect in matric. She was a member of the South African Black Students Association and … for a BA degree and a teacher’s diploma at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She was still active in politics, …

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg municipality. Nyanda …

… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of the  Congress of Democrats (COD) .He became the … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4. …

… now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up in the KwaMashu township outside Durban . He is one of nine children in his family. Amongst his siblings are … , who served as chief justice for the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as well as  his other brother Ben Langa, a …

… on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the Urban Housing … now Western Cape) and later Princeton, United States of America (USA). He joined the Dutch Reformed Church ministry and was a tireless secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The first Afrikaans …

… Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town . At a tender age, he worked … It was during this time that he was introduced to a form of payment in cheap wine known as the “tot system”, which kept farm labourers in a constant state of numbness. Barely 13 years old and in short pants, he …

… early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade … was very active in the African National Union of Laundry and Dry Cleaning Workers and the Management Committee of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) . …

… None But Ourselves: The media and the masses in the making of Zimbabwe , with Julie Frederikse. This involved interviewing and photographing hundreds of Zimbabweans; researching, collecting and copying … from many sources and working on the editing and design of the book. Partridge was involved in the founding of the …

… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a teacher and later Director of the Durban Indian Child Welfare Association. Moodley … majoring in English and Speech and Drama. The banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist …

… has shown how working life changed for the millions of people who came to live on the Rand between 1886 and 1940. … revolutionised the economy, the society and the very way of life of the working people of the Rand. Sixty years is a … resistance through unions, political parties and community action such as stayaways and boycotts. We have also seen how …

… near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a white-owned farm in the Colenso district of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, Xhegwana Elliot, was illiterate … attending ANC rallies and meetings. He was an avid reader of The Guardian and The New Age , newspapers run mainly by …

… Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in … where he matriculated before registering at the University of the North (Turfloop) in 1972 to study science. It is at … ideology. Thus, he became involved in the activities of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) at …

… Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa . People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE [i] . After several successive waves of migrations Rwanda saw the formation of several smaller … reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi people. Affirmative action programs and limiting political actions were …

… Doctor. Her mother, Helen Evelyn Zondagh, was a descendant of the Voortekker leader Jacobus Johannes Uys. Margaret was the youngest of their three children. [ii] Margaret attended Indwe High … University) in Grahamstown , where she achieved a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in physics and chemistry. She …

… Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s, Louw’s personal relationships took her into Langa, one of Cape Town’s oldest townships. There she witnessed the …

… who was educated at a Mission school, was the headmaster of a high school in Klerksdorp, a small town in the Western … a shack while his mother worked at the Ezenzeleni School of the Blind.  In 1943, the family was forced to move once … from Father Huddleston, Tutu was influenced by the likes of Pastor Makhene and Father Sekgaphane (who admitted him …

… Simultaneously he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior … he was based for ten years. It was here that the formation of his educational philosophy occurred. In his own personal … a Unisa Bantu Studies diploma and became principal of the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton near Vereeniging where …

… was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei , the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. He attended primary … school at Jongilizwe College, Tsolo, a school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. Holomisa joined the Transkei Defence …

… medicine in Bombay, India, from 1939. It was at the height of the Indian struggle for liberation against British … He was the second Black doctor to do so. Most of his patients came from the surrounding Black townships. … Dr Monty Naicker . In 1950 Motala was elected chairperson of the local branch of the Natal Indian Congress. Together …

… South Africans, Jele was exposed to the harsh conditions of colonialism and apartheid at an early age. His home-town … to join the fight against apartheid. In 1950, at an age of 20 Jele joined the African National Congress (ANC) and … his release, he left the country for exile at the advice of the ANC leader Oliver Tambo . Jele then did his tertiary …

… Convent School. She then registered at the University of Witwatersrand where she obtained a degree in Development Studies. While at Wits, Hogan joined a group of students who actively opposed policies of the Apartheid government and became involved in their …

… into his lessons. It was not long before he became one of the brightest boys in school and only a boy when he took … taking a great interest in their studies. Young Jabavu was of the great assistance to the ministers, especially on … assistant on a local newspaper. In 1881 he became editor of the Isigidimi Sama Xhosa, which was printed and published …

… Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by expressing the thanks of the African National Congress and of my own self to the Greater London Council (GLC), the … escalate their offensive using all means, including armed action, for the overthrow of the criminal apartheid regime …

… Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by expressing the thanks of the African National Congress and of my own self to the Greater London Council (GLC), the … escalate their offensive using all means, including armed action, for the overthrow of the criminal apartheid regime …

… born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary … Hare). He also obtained his BA degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) while furthering his medical studies. … obtained a scholarship to study medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in 1941. He was also elected to …

… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I … even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my experience,  my thinking,  my aspirations." Robert … he returned to England and was discharged after the end of the war in 1945. From 1947-1950, Hodgins studied part-time …

… 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in … a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by the University of Pretoria. After completing his studies he became a … he completed his MA degree in 1961with the University of Pretoria. His dissertation was titled  Streeksontwikkeling …