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… The implication was clear, many Afrikaners, including some of their political leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler … moved to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israeli war as part of an elite underground Jewish army.  During the 1940s he was a member of the Palmach, the military wing of the Jewish National …

… found work at the Crown Mines in Johannesburg as secretary of Reverend Anderson, a welfare officer at the mine. When the … year, in 1953 he found work at the South African Council of Churches (SACC) where he closely worked with Reverend Arthur Blaxall , secretary of the SACC. Mpho became seriously involved in politics …

… van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, who was a pupil of composition and theory with Rimsky Korsakoff, at the … socio-political issues. In 1961 he published a series of drawings titles ‘Sharpeville’, as a comment on the …

… Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at … home in Ocean View, when she shared some intimate memories of her life in Simon’s Town ………………… I was born in Alfred Lane …

… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising … , she led a demonstration that ended in the burning of permits. She was one of the first women volunteers in the 1952 Defiance Campaign , … ANC Women's League: 50 Years of struggle [online] Available at: anc.org.za [Accessed 30 …

… a Communist night school and joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s. In … was elected to the party's central committee, becoming one of its first African members; in 1932, however, he was expelled from the party for protesting the treatment of  S. P. Bunting . Makabeni was one of the most prominent …

… became invovled in politics at the young age of 13 and by the time he was 15 years old, he was a spokesperson of the Pan Africanist Congress youth, the party he joined as a schoolboy before the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. When he finished school at Orlando High in Soweto, …

… Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to … him suffering from congestive cardiac failure. The effects of this were huge cardiac swelling, irregular heartbeat, extreme shortness of breath, a heart incapable of maintaining normal output so …

… Leon went on to register a law degree with the  University of Witwatersrand . His leadership qualities manifested … still at Witwatersrand University. He was the president of the Law Student Council and deputy President of the Student Representative Council. While still at Wits he …

… Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High … he resigned in late 1954 from the executive committee of the Transvaal Youth League in protest against the expulsion of  P. K. Leballo  from the league. After working for some …

… in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church. His strong Afrikaner … Potgieter, D. J. (1972). Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa, Vol.6 , Nasou: Cape Town, p. 169.| D F …

… Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an … sculptures date to the 1960s, although it is the work of the 1980s and later that became widely known and … in northern Limpopo. He selected a particular site on top of a hill, where there were the remains of Iron Age stone …

… finally settling in Swekwati Kamamole. In 1945, at the age of seven he was sent to live with his aunt in Alexander … He started attending primary school at the age of eight at a Lutheran Church school. In 1947 he moved to … age he was intrigued by politics when he saw a picture of MB Yegwa an African National Congress (ANC) Executive …

… Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and … Viktor and Jac Buchner started Vlakplaas, a farm 20km west of Pretoria, Gauteng, as the headquarters of the South African Police counterinsurgency unit working …

… 1967 and began her tertiary studies 1971 at the University of Zululand . She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Science … country in 1976 to complete her MB ChB at the University of Bristol in 1978. During the 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became … (ANC) activities while serving as the Deputy President of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). …

… Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the  Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in … 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape Town in 1925 and was one of the party's activists most strongly in favor of an … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born … in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the Dlamini clan in 1815. He was determined to expand his … River, by the Ndwandwe, shortly after the beginning of his reign. The Ezulwini valley in central Swaziland, where …

… (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree from the University of Fort Hare in 1937.He was headmaster of Nqabara Secondary School in Willowvale for 13 years.In … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years … this in 1968 protest against the discriminatory policies of the Trade Union Council of South Africa. He was also a founder member  in  Media …

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born near Mapumulo in Natal in 1923. He … part-time study toward a B.Com. Degree at the University of Natal. Going initially into business as an accountant, he …

… (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi – Pedi war. In 1870 he … in Mr. Acutt. After working for Mr. Acutt for a period of not more than six months, he left for Durban to find …

… to Rand Afrikaner University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg. Pienaar enrolled for Law degree at the … Pienaar interests in rugby grew. He harboured ambitions of playing provincial rugby for Transvaal (now the Golden … intervention from Nelson Mandela . This ended ten years of isolation and subsequently South African rugby team hosted …

… a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He was the first of three sons born to Manabeng and Dibetle Johanna Mamogobo. … Manabeng was a farm worker. The family also owned a piece of ground on which they produced their own grains and kept … on her own. As a result Mamagobo left school at the age of twelve, after completing Standard 5 at Einsgevonden …

… Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then … spent close to four years in the hospital until the age of 6. Manzini’s parents, who were teachers, were both active members of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s. Manzini …

… (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was … nine months in the navy and enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he studied philosophy and English, … the United Democratic Front (UDF) and became an ANC Member of Parliament. He was tried in the Cape Town Supreme Court in …

… in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of the Garment Workers' Union. He served as secretary of the Cape Town branch of the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CP) in the late …

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a … which was featured in the November/December issue of Staffrider magazine in 1979. Eventually tiring of the CYA environment, Hassan enrolled in art classes at the …

… in South Africa. “This is a time for a visual state of emergence,” she says. “The preservation and mapping of our herstories is the only way for us black lesbians to be … lesbian weddings, trans men dressing in tuxedos, survivors of ‘corrective rape,’ lovers in bed together. Muholi’s …

… Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and anthropologist at the University College of Fort Hare. Matthews completed his primary education at …