SAHO global search

1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… exchange program and served as the national chairperson of Black Community Programmes from 1974 until it was banned in …

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1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… worked as a garage attendant, and later helped organise a black railway and harbour workers' union of which he became … Secretary of the Black Railway and…

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1933-1987

Eric Ngcobo

… in South Africa and Lesotho and in 1962 he was the first black artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Durban Art …

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1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… a medical practice in Pietermaritzburg. He was the second Black doctor to do so. Most of his patients came from the surrounding Black townships. The…

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many black South Africans, Jele was exposed to the harsh … unemployment and many other social injustices…

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1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… economics and anthropology. His efforts to help unionise Black workers won him the support of Chief Mangosuthu … for him: they wanted access to the office of…

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20 January-1967

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)

… Central Prison, with a disproportionate number being Black political prisoners.[4] Prison conditions were harsh and racially segregated. Black prisoners…

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1958

Mkhuseli Khusta Jack

… African Students Movement (SASM), which was linked to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).  He came into close … in a number of campaigns including those…

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1915

Reverend Beyers Naudé

… morality of apartheid after witnessing the destruction of Black family life under the South African migrant labour … and God will be with us.” Naude was…

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1965

Joseph Mathunjwa

… tapped into a swelling vein of discontent among poor, Black workers who have seen little improvement in their lives …

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1965

Mduduzi Richard Shabalala

… in the township. In 1982 Lamontville was one of first Black townships in Natal to protest against high rent and bus …

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Traci Mackie

… time, as the funeral of Steve Biko , the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and someone whom she would …

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1966-1987

Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen

… settlement in Paarl.  Pietersen’s remains were wrapped in black bags and exhumed by forensic anthropologist and …

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1910-1977

Max Gordon

… of whether white leadersship was necessary to promote black unions. In January 1942 Gordon went to port Elizabeth …

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1956

Christopher Nceba Faku

… first democratic local elections he was elected as first Black Mayor of the City of Port Elizabeth (now Nelson Mandela …

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… Representative Council he pressed for a break between black students and the white-led National Union of South …

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… of the correctness of Comintern directives regarding the "Black Republic" policy, she became a key member of the …

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1939-2022

Francis Wilson

… of the Sharpeville police shootings, the banning of major Black political activity and the consequent Rivonia trial , … Africa , an influential investigation…

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1852-1927

Elizabeth Maria Molteno

… and British communities were going to unite in excluding Black Africans from the region’s future. In the early 1900s … Gandhi disagreed fundamentally on many…

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… man can never really understand what goes on inside a Black man'. When the programme ended, Nakasa went to New York … He was an influential writer and had an…

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1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… Hunt,  In 1974 Mafela co-starred in South Africa’s first Black feature film, “Udeliwe” with Cynthia Shange. In the … character of 'Sdumo'.  This sitcom…

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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… categorised Sihlali’s work, along with that of many other black South African modernists, in the genre of ‘township … headed the Fine Arts Department at the…

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1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… 1946 – a corporal was then the highest rank attainable for black people in the military. He joined the African National … As senior administrative officer,…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… 12 September 1978, exactly a year after the death of the Black Consciousness leader  Steve Biko , Sibeko took part in … homage to Biko he said that it was…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… in South Africa on 6 November 1929, and began to organise Black workers unions. Five days later, on 11 November 1929, … west coast among fishing communities…

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1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… was made available by the Health and Town Boards. No Black people were allowed to stay near the White areas nor … Place, the family then moved to a larger…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

… Drift palette of brown, ochres and yellow, blue and black in her pots.  Decoration began with the application of …

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1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

… influenced by the Tuskegee-Hampton Institute vogue in black American education, Loram helped to promote the concept …

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