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BiographyPeter McKenzie
… publisher Reedwan Vally (STE Publishers) on various books, one of which was about the journeys of Nelson Mandela. He …
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
… deceased) and four daughters. They have 11 grandchildren (one deceased) and five great-grandchildren.In recognition of …
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
… Congress (PAC) of Azania at its inception and was one of its founding members. He intertwined lessons with …
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
… nationally. He was truly tireless and argued that one should never shun an organisational task that was …
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… which he named Latimeria Chalumnae. This became one of the outstanding finds of the twentieth century. The …
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
… than him and Xhosa by birth. They had four sons and one daughter.In 1952 he persuaded a number of volunteers to …
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
… ”taken a leading part in the boycotting of schools and was one of the leaders primarily responsible for the bus …
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
… in 1992. Literally translated, Isithwalandwe means "the one who wears the plumes of the rare bird". Ray Alexander …
BiographyClarence Mlami Makwetu
… the liberation movements. After 1994 election Makwetu was one of the three PAC members in parliament. In 1996 while …
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
… , South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town . She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape … business-man in the sugar cane…
BiographyNosipho Dastile
… , Dastile started to become politically active and was one of the founders of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in … Mabala and Veronica Sobukwe ) was in the…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… ethnic labels given to various workers — for example, one supervisor told the author that "Angolans are regarded as … chores. The contract workers see their…
BiographyOliver Mtukudzi
… at the age of 23. Two years later, he collaborated with one of the Zimbabwean top musician Thomas Mapfumo at the … for his contribution to the history of…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
… Province). While in banishment, hesuffered paralysis on one side of his body and was physically handicapped. Helen … family of an African government…
BiographyNtlabati Jojo
… resistance to state measures, and surrendered ‘with twenty-one others. All but one were tried and convicted that same day.’ The Native …
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
… at 12-years, that Kolisi finally received a scholarship at one of the most prestigious schools in the country, Grey … he could not speak a word of English,…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) . In 1924 he was appointed as one of the joint secretaries of the NIC. The most serious … to create a Council forIndians. PR…
BiographyThomas Mbeki
… Johannesburg and soon joined the Young Communist League as one of its first African recruits. When Clements Kadalie … Union (ICU) in the Transvaal in late…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… in South Africa since 1945 . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. (chapter 1) Luthuli, Albert. Let My People Go . London, … People of South Africa . Cape Town, David…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… Associations, Organisations or Vigilant Committees each one established for the purpose of advancing, observing and … OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVE NATIONAL…
BiographyNtongela Masilela
… strongly believed in education and his father was one of the first graduates in his village in the Northern … The Historical Figures of the New African…
BiographyMithrasagaran “Murthie” Naidoo
… mat with two blankets even though it was bitterly cold. One small bucket in the corner was his bathroom and another … weeks, he was interrogated, verbally…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
… less than what was needed in South Africa. Cholo was one of the founding members of the South African Congress of … In 1969 he attended the Mogorogoro…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… a successful soccer player, active LGBTQI+ activist and one of the first women to live as openly lesbian in her home … the LGBTQI+ community. 2. Sally Gross…
BiographyPeter Clarke
… where he studied etching. He also continued to write and one of his stories “Eleven O’Clock: The Wagons, the Shore” … my family were still where we had been…
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
… possible-Jew, Gentile-black man-white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by … by each other's misery. We don't…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
… Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the … confinement for years during the 1970s. Moved from one prison to the next, she…
BiographyKerr Alexander
… surrounding the fort. Kerr also learnt that he had only one teaching colleague, D.D.T. Jabavu. Nevertheless the …
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
… 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The …
BiographyArthur Maimane
… wanted to give impression he had a cultured accent” said one contemporary. He was secretive. He kept a certain …