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… ‘informal’ settlement in a large family, with both sets of families.His grandfather and father did all the slaughtering of animals in the area, a skill which he learnt by helping … on his mother’s side lived in that area. When a section of Elsies River was designated Indian (Cravenby Estate) …

… to Rita Siyoni and had two sons and a daughter, one of his sons passed on in 1996. He worked as a salesperson for … he was working for Town Talk Furniture and was a member of the General Workers Union of South Africa.  Galela became one of the key leaders of … 26 August 2011]| SAPA (1998) Hitman Paints Graphic Picture Of Pebco Three's Final Hours   …

… Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne . The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo … in Marula wood with a pen knife as a child. By the time of his first solo exhibition, held at the Upper Gallery of …

… Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee Mothibe). His father … passed away in 1975. He completed his first six years of schooling at the Jane Furst School in Glen Cowie, and from …

… Pemba became notorious for escaping from the drudgery of schoolwork into his private world of drawing. In 1924, Pemba won a Grey Scholarship to Paterson … widely. After his works were accepted for an exhibition of “Negro and Bantu Art” in Port Elizabeth in the late 1930s, …

… in 1928. Kok began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and later at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she obtained her MB ChB in … In 1936, Kok went to work at the chief mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church in Zambia , where she came into …

… was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she visited Cape Town and its cultural life inspired … briefly under Edward Roworth. Laubser was elected a member of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in 1907, long …

… a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was … in bringing  Yusuf Dadoo  and  G M Naicker  to positions of leadership in the  South African Indian Congress . In 1946 he served as secretary of the  Passive Resistance  Council of the Natal Indian …

… mother, Bessie Amelia Emery, came from a wealthy family of Scottish descent. No information on her father exists … a Catholic church and school and remained ignorant of the Heathcotes not being her biological parents throughout … continued to afflict her throughout her life. The issue of mixed-race prejudice became a prominent theme in her …

… also produced for video in collaboration with Anant Singh of Video Vision. She has also written both story and music in … with guitarist, Bheki Khoza, for the Animated Tales of the World Series, which featured in Right Angle in the UK as well as the SABC. In 2001 her CD and book of Nozincwadi Mother of Books was produced as part of her …

… 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to … the spice trade and wholesaled dried snoek. At the age of nine Goolam Gool was sent to study at Aligarh College in … British colonial rule in India, resulted in the closure of Aligarh in 1919. Gool then matriculated in London and …

… Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and … had an elder brother and a younger sister. From the age of 16, he sat in on discussions with people who came to …  - PRESS BRIEFINGS MONDAY 24TH JANUARY 1994 - PROFILES OF THE FIRST 50 CANDIDATES OF THE ANC NATIONAL LIST [online] …

… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and served the purpose of some of the publications at the time, one of them being Drum …

… Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a … he was employed in a pharmacy and became local chairman of the party. Turning to trade union work, he led a successful strike of Port Elizabeth dock workers, then took up the organisation …

… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a … degrees from that university, that she received her Master of Arts. In 1888 she returned to South Africa and began work … the geology section. In 1908 she became the first director of the Alexander McGregor Museum in Kimberley . The museum …

… and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the court of the Gcaleka paramount chief, he was elected to the district council of Idutywa, and later, at the age of 29, he was appointed to …

… Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula grew up in the township of Everton in the Vaal area. She obtained her undergraduate … degree in law at the Turfloop University (now University of the North). She then went on to study further at Wits, … positions in several organisations including commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission from 1995 to …

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended … while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the University of Natal and bachelor of law degree in 1959 from the University of the …

… Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was … schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United States of America (USA). While she did not attend university, one … rooted education from her mother, who had been a teacher of young ladies in Germany and was an accomplished linguist” …

… in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. His parents were peasant farmers … into the political struggle by the  Defiance Campaign of 1952  organised by the  African National Congress . He was …

… Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the first born son of the late Collins Molapatene, an attorney and social worker … Hwiti High schools. He later enrolled at the University of the North (Turfloop) (now Limpopo University). He grew up … (Limpopo), Vryburg, Mahikeng and Lesotho. He was a scholar of note—excelling in mathematics, science, music and dance. …

… late father Kanyama Phiri. He learned to  play a variety of music instruments, including the piano and drums. Phiri … to travel to Johannesburg . He became a founder member of the 1970s soul music group, the Cannibals. When the … Don’t Talk So Let’s Talk . It came as no surprise when one of their most memorable tracks, Whispers In The Deep , or …

… Veerammal Naidoo, wife of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political activist in the Transvaal …

… award from the Tito Zungu Trust Fund, created in the name of the late artist Tito Zungu which provides subsidies to … to study art. Manana enrolled at the Durban Institute of Technology for a diploma in Fine Arts, which he completed … Centre in Durban in 2004 Manana displayed an understanding of various social issues. He then progressed to visualising …

… Sabbai before attending  English school . At the young age of 11, she became a pupil teacher, earning a salary of 10 shillings.Her parents, R.K. Naidoo and Thangatchee … in Durban,but went bankrupt in the economic depression of the 1930s. She returned home in 1936 and set up a practice …

… 1886**1874 in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a famous sculptor Jan Frans de Vriendt and his wife, … parts up to six times in one performance. At the beginning of 1927, De Vriendt and his wife arrived in Cape Town and … and Bietje and Die sonde van die verlede (an adaptation of Herman Heyermans’s Kind series and directed at the dangers …

… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines around … course, Baartman was ‘elected as regional branch chairman of the ANC’ and also became ‘a committee member of SACTU [ …

… Exiled person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist … returned to South Africa he joined the underground ranks of MK in the Natal Midlands Region. In 1987 he was arrested … in 1991. Upon his release, he was promoted to the rank of Commander of MK for the Natal Midlands Region until 1994. …

… was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and … agriculture at Adams College and then beginning the study of law, he went to Johannesburg about 1941 and took a job as … During World War II, he led his union through a number of successful strikes. During the 1940s he served with  Gana …

… Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town where he pursued a Masters degree in …