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… Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the … be with her husband, Edwin Mofutsanyana , a leading member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) – which later became the South African …

… after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe succeeded his father, Mokhacane, as the chief of the Bamokoteli. His first settlement was at Butha Buthe, …

… in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief Montshioa of the Barolong boo Ratshidi in Mafikeng. Dr Molema was …

… a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. He grew … Martin, who earned but a meager income, took over the role of breadwinner of the family. As a youngster Fourie learnt in numerous …

… Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort Hare, … a B.A. degree. After teaching, he became a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dube township,  …

… James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover in the formation of the …

… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married Cornelia Margaretha Kruger, a woman …

… unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she organised a protest meeting and was … with assaulting the police and fined £20. She was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions and member of the Consultative Committee of …

… Ntsikelelo Sandi will lead you with questions on behalf of the Commission. ADV SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairman. Let me … today to tell us about Mr Sobukwe. We all know him. Some of us read about himself in books, but today we find … days before he was released. The Minister of Justice took action, because he realised that something must be happening …

… in Malamulele. In 2001, he went to study at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg , where he obtained a … Studies at the same university.  In his third year of study at the university, he was elected to the Student … Congress Youth League . He is currently a deputy president of the   Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)  and a non-voting …

… was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in … in 1937, Ngubane was offered the assistant editorship of John L. Dube's newspaper,  Ilanga lase Natal.  From that … Mda . The three subsequently became principal architects of the Youth League's emerging ideology, and Ngubane …

… New York Times called her an actress 'who reads the soul' of Fugard. Bryceland's collaborations with Fugard were many … and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children . Of his experience of working with Bryceland, Fugard, John Kani and Winston …

… at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now … in 1963, returning to South Africa after the unbanning of the organisation in 1990.He was chief representative of …

… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … experiences with photography were as a teen when one of his sisters gave him his first camera.He grew up in … years at the Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto; one of the hotbeds of the violently suppressed Soweto uprising in …

… was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, Todd, was a … had an all-black cast. King Kong helped launch the careers of singer, Miriam Makeba, and musician, Hugh Masekela. Todd … In 1961, soon after the Sharpeville massacre, the banning of the political organizations and a state crackdown on the …

… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski family in Namibia. At the age of thirteen, Lubowski was sent to Stellenbosch to complete …

… went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of these laws Cole was defined as an “unskilled labourer” who … photographer. This is where he obtained basic knowledge of photography, and an old Yashika twin lens reflex camera. …

… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King,  Dinuzulu  kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and … is like a bow which has a string bound down to the middle of the bow) and was also a singer and poet. Despite being … married. This enabled her to contribute in the development of traditional music. Through the training of many young …

… Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal reform and social service. Working with C. T. … Council in 1921 and thereafter became the chief organiser of other Joint Councils throughout the Union in the 1920s and …

… the  African National Congress  (ANC) and  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1940s and served in the ANC … to pursue his studies through evening classes. He was one of the participants of the  1952 Defiance Campaign . He was a founder member of …

… Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi … family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of Hermann Kallenbach , established the Tolstoy Farm where former political prisoners and families of prisoners could stay. Eventually, Thambi Naidoo took his …

… Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to standard five [grade seven] level’ at a … near Vryburg [North West Province] in 1904 for a couple of years. Conflict between the Hurutshe and the apartheid …

… six years with  Daily News  he became chief subeditor of  The Northern Newspaper , which was serving the Copper … Ndola, Zambia. Five years later he became assistant editor of the Sunday Mail  in Salisbury (Harare) and three years … Chronicle . From Bulawayo Chronicle he became editor of the short-lived Sunday Chronicle in Johannesburg, before …

… London. Adelaide Tambo’s political life started at the age of 10 after a raid by the police, following an uprising in … entrenching apartheid, it became a heated subject for most of the students. At 18, Tambo joined the African National … Youth League  (ANCYL)  and was elected chairperson of the George Goch branch. One of her duties was to open …

…  (TIC) in 1928. He was an executive member and chairman of the Pretoria branch before becoming president of the TIC. Her father encouraged all seven of his children to educate themselves and become active …

… (1)  Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a … work was only published in the 80s and 90s. Ngcobo was one of the main speakers during the 1956 women’s anti-pass march … but it was not until 1981 that her first book, Cross of Gold, was published. This is a book of which she says "I …

… lived and worked under trying conditions. The average wage of a railway worker in Cradock in 1983 was R242/month.  He … a good living. Simmering discontent among the residents of the township led to the formation of the Cradock Ratepayers’ Association (CRADORA) and the …

… 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife, … in the First World War and was held as a prisoner of war when his ship was sunk.   When she was quite young, … science teacher, a Miss Verinder, then the principal of St Cyprians School in Cape Town offered her a teaching …

… born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who gave much support and money … to treat malaria), which resulted in a slight impairment of her hearing. In March 1927, at the age of 19, she married …

… Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father, John Knox Bokwe , in Ugie, East Griqualand, … Dube. He was also a physician. In 1928 he began the study of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying as a …