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… artists. He lived through the monumental events of World War II , digging anti-tank trenches in his youth, to spending … Komnick continued his training in Switzerland, first in Basel and then in Bern, He qualified as a … that “you can’t do everything by hand”. With his first camera (a Rolleiflex), Komnick’s artistic, …

… South African women were allowed to practise law for the first time, she began to study for an LLB degree (law degree) … was called to the Bar in June 1926, becoming one of the first female barristers in the country. While practising at … the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II . In 1958 she retired from active politics. She was …

… office and the Executive Council. During the Anglo-Zulu War Beaumont served as District Commandant of the Division of … decorated and thanked for his efforts during the war in January 1879.  Around this period he was also leader … Commission to delimit the electoral constituencies of the first union parliament. He retired from bench in 1910 but …

… Barthold Hertzog, and Susanna Maria Jacoba Hamman. The first school he attended was in Kimberley, where he developed … OFS President M.T. Steyn. Later, when the  South African War  broke out in October 1899, Hetzog's life changed … forces in Kimberley. Just before the Boers' could lose the war, he was appointed commander in the field. Subsequently, …

… of 1860. This was just prior to the South African War . He was only 15 years old when he settled with his … an active participant, Mohamed and Fatima Dadoo had the first of eight children, Yusuf.  Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo began … Hall to honour the appointment of V. Srinivasa Sastri, the first Indian Agent-General to South Africa, Dadoo was asked …

… He returned to his scientific career, and after the war joined the faculty of the University of the … Biography,  published in 1944,  Time Longer Than Rope,  first published in 1948 (and later updated and republished in …

… in 1901. He served on the British side in the Anglo-Boer War by doing duty at the Cape Town Castle, and then turned to … with fourteen Cape scenes, were shown at the SASA/SADC First Annual Exhibition in 1902. In 1903 he showed 15 new …

… her wedding, she returned to her studies, graduating with first-class passes in both her major subjects, Economics and … 1941 and 1944, Suzman worked as a statistician for the War Supplies Board. In 1944, she started lecturing in … on the Independent Electoral Commission that oversaw the first democratic elections in 1994. For several years …

… cricketer and a much decorated soldier of the Second World War), made their way to Cape Town with the idea of earning … in 1944, Norton, though only 37, succeeded him. He was the first South African born editor of the  Cape Times  and among the first South Africans to edit any of the country's major …

… a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter. He first attended the Broad Road Primary School and then … and to join the external wing of the organisation. He first went to Tanzania and from there to London. In 1969, at … 4th from the right, in a march to protest against the war in Natal, 1990. Photograph by Omar Badsha. In 1991 he …

… in 1859, where he lived for six years. He helped start the first mission in Matabeleland in 1859. In 1865 he took over … John Smith Moffat’s intervention established Rhodes’s first step in his colonial adventure. Later on, Moffat … Pioneer Column provoked Lobengula into the First Matabele War, Moffat fell out with Rhodes. In 1893 he exposed the …

… father had been General Smuts ’s aide-de-camp during the First World War , and his sister, Isie, was married to the General. … Transvaal University College in Pretoria’s team. At their first meeting they paid little attention to each other, …

… after they were married. During the Second World War they battled the Ossewa Brandwag , an Afrikaner … imprisonment. The case was significant because it was the first case since the Suppression of Communism Act was passed … of the Act in the preceding fifteen years. Now, for the first time, the State had been able to secure a conviction …

… 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South … (Women of Africa) Paperback – 1984 A Different Kind of War: From Soweto to Pretoria (1986) The Unbreakable Thread - …

… Sparrow missiles. He was also responsible for passing the first intelligence information about the French Exocet … approach. It was also during this time that he met his first wife, British-born Janet Coggin whom he married in … 1958. Coggin says she became aware of her husband’s Cold War spying activities eight years later in 1966 but chose not …

… who were supporters of Nazi Germany during World War II came up with a plan to adopt 10 000 German orphans. … two Newspapers that published the story for defamation. He first lost the case but later won on appeal.  …

… I was 15 years old.  A laatjie.  This was during the war-time, in 1944.  After the war he found himself unemployed … at the Association of Arts Gallery in Cape Town for the first time.  By this time the Clarke family had moved from … book illustrations soon followed. While painting was his first love, Peter also enjoyed creative writing and in 1955 …

… success, she was forced to return home due to the looming war . She briefly worked as a secretary in the British High … home, Benson acted as his secretary and he became the first Black African she had ever worked for. She came to know … her to meet many of apartheid’s opponents and gain a first-hand insight into the conditions under which the …

… accomplished linguist” (Hirson, 1992: 49). Ruth Schechter first met Morris Alexander in Cambridge where he was a … and affectionate in tone, although at points during the First World War Schreiner became increasingly concerned about not …

… He served with the South African forces in World War II for four years and went on to attend Exeter College in Oxford on an ex-serviceman’s grant, receiving first-class honours in jurisprudence. He was made an Honorary … acting judge of the Constitutional Court. He delivered the first reported judgment the court gave. He became a member of …

… attached to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Italy. After the war , he settled in Cape Town where he joined the War … Sweden to collect it. In 1960, Rubin went into exile. He first went to Ghana, where he was director of the Centre for … received two payments in 1961, incidentally becoming the first armed resistance group to get finance from Ghana – the …

… and  in exchange for performing little tasks for the war effort they would receive coffee and sandwiches.” At Chancellor House they met Patsy Gilbert and Ruth First who asked them to distribute some leaflets on the war … against the apartheid state. Vandeyar was among the first to agree to join the armed struggle, and the ANC’s …

… as extremely controversial.In 1993, Khumalo released her first album, Leleti and the Sarafina , and co-starred in … and the Battle of Isandlwana, fought during the Anglo Zulu War . Khumalo also appeared in the television series The …

… before arriving in South Africa. Yutar was South Africa’s first Jewish Attorney-General. As a young man, his left hand … South Africa might have found itself in a bloody civil war. The public owes a great debt of gratitude to the …

… 1907, long before she became a noted modernist. Her first recorded participation on a SASA related exhibition was … artists’ colony at Laren, Holland until outbreak of World War 1. Thereafter she moved to London, and began her studies …

… in the Department of Native Affairs. During World War II Curson served as a captain in the SA Defence Force for … of Afrikaans as a scientific language being one of the first lecturers to present Embryology lectures in Afrikaans. …

… in navigation and engineering, with service in the war zone in North Africa. He also served as an actuarial … and statistician to the Governor General's National War Fund until 1949 when, having qualified as an actuary, he … a daughter, two stepsons and the two daughters from his first marriage. …

… from the Baltic who came to South Africa on the eve of the First World War. In December 1916, Rebecca married Sidney Percival …

… four sons: Andrew, Peter, Mark and Richard.During World War II Collins served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force.  After the war, he founded the Christian Action organization  in 1946, … 1969 Collins held a memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral, the first time a Muslim was honoured at the cathedral.In 1974 …