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… July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South Africa. By the age of 11 he was excelling at various sports. He attended … High School and studied commerce at the University of Natal. Shaun Pollock's passion for cricket overtook his …

… into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee Soweto in 1978 just … He trained as a youth councilor and served in a number of capacities in the office of the bishop of Johannesburg …

… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father.  He was educated in America and became a Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa in … For six years in the 1920s and 1930s he was principal of Wilberforce Institute in Evaton. He was later a member of …

… The Role of London in the Anti-Apartheid movement, specifically in … relation to the SACP and the ANC The international aspect of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa had many … which occurred in 1952, was a nonviolent resistance action, which involved breaking unjust apartheid laws, such …

… Congress . He was active in Natal politics as a supporter of G M Naicker . In the mid-1950s he served as general secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and later became general secretary of the SAIC. He was a defendant in the Treason Trial from …

… the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He … would later be the inspiration for his paintings. Most of his paintings depict old farmhouses in Cape Town. He particularly loved painting the landscapes of the Cape and Natal. He was also revered for his portraits. …

… Agnes Masango.  He was invited to conduct a massed choir of 3000 school children at the welcoming ceremony of King George of Britain in Mthatha. In recognition of his outstanding …

… to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’ Degree in … and obtained a Doctoral Degree with a thesis on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: ( Taal en mythe: een … Van Niekerk has lectured Philosophy at the University of Zululand, and later at the University of South Africa, and …

… Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing … Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa. At the age of 14 he started playing the accordion. He went to school in …

…  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security Police in 1971, used her home at 12 Harold … in return for running errands, Desai would allow Timol use of her car.  Timol also worked with Hilmi, the Desai’s son, …

… and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. … South Africa the following year to study at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She later graduated from UCT with a Bachelor of Social Science degree and began working as a press …

… in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at … him to produce a carved Madonna. This marked the beginning of a lifelong career of commissioned ecclesiastical work. From 1953 to 1970 …

… he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career. His father owned a … album titled Celebrations. The album featured a number of British players including Courtney Pine. The album was … go on to produce five more albums before his death. One of these was released in 2003 and titled Home at Last , a …

… or ‘Chippa’ as he is affectionately known by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, … Province). At primary school level he showed the skills of a good soccer player.  Masinga attended coaching clinics … African National Soccer Team) when it won the African Cup of Nations final. He had also been in the South African team …

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … to undergo military training. He left in the company of Winston Sindane, Samson Mbatha and Cyril ‘Edwin’ Dlamini, … then sent to Baku for a sea-landing course. He became part of the team that was to infiltrate the country through the …

… born on 30 March 1970 in Kwa Mashu Township , the North of Durban . Growing up a poverty-ridden township, she became … in Sarafina , a production based on the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976 . She was nominated for a Tony Award for … Khumalo starred in Darrell James Roodt's film version of Sarafina! , distributed worldwide, and became the biggest …

… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … assistant director in 1967. In 1974 he became the editor of The Sunday Express before returning to The Rand Daily Mail … editor in 1977. The Rand Daily Mail was the major voice of the liberal opposition to the Apartheid government and …

… as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until … a trade union organiser for the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). In 1967 he was arrested and convicted of furthering the aims of a banned organisation – the African …

… no art classes at Adams College, he acted on the advice of Masondo and applied to study at Ndaleni Educational … he was funded by a bursary awarded by the SA Institute of Race Relations in Durban to study at Rorke's Drift. He was the winner of the Graphic Art Award at the Black Expo of 1973. In 1974 …

… Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to … obtained her Honours degree in 1921 from the University of London. She then returned to South Africa where she … research on algae. During World War II  she was a member of the South African Women’s Auxiliary Service. Pocock was …

… before proceeding with her studies at the University of Witwatersrand where her mother worked as French lecturer. …  (ARM) taking on the code name "Kate". This was a period of heightened political tension in South Africa as the … its sabotage campaigns, her work involved driving members of the organisation to rural areas where they would set up …

… up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the … Apartheid government; and it was situated on the slopes of Table Mountain. Daniels had a number of jobs in the 1940s, including work as a delivery boy in …

… and convinced his father to allow him to draw. Only patch of sunshine 1968. Source: artnet.com Mohl attended the … Namibia) where he studied painting at the Windhoek School of Art. The Missionary Society and the Lutheran Church then … was known to his peers as the ‘White Studio’. He was one of the first Black artists to be involved in art education …

… January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane … In 1952, he left Ga-Masemola for Pretoria in search of employment. Immediately after stepping off the train the … arrested him; his crime was that he was not in possession of the hated dompas (Identity Document). The police beat him …

… The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest the State of Emergency. His interest in photojournalism did not develop …

… his Philange Art Project based in Umlazi, a township south of Durban where Makhoba had built a studio space behind his … student, Welcome Danca. Together they have held a number of exhibitions at the African Art Centre in Durban. Although … built on his own style and visual language, the influence of Makhoba is noticeable. This does more credit than harm, …

… , Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a … her seven years in the nunnery, she was told by the head of the nunnery that she would feel out of place because she had never lived with white people …

… trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor … died in 1975, but he lives on through the romantic lyrics of the late Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley and Ethiopian pop … people with shared sentiments which can lead to collective action. The misplaced form of black nationalism created by …

… Towards the end of 1929, the Minister of Justice, Oswald Pirow, announced a new bill, an amendment … to the Courts, to banish any individual from any part of the country, to forbid any individual from attending any … L, (1997), South Africa's alternative press: voices of protest and resistance, 1880s-1960s , Cambridge University …

… a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the Students Representative Council at the University of Zululand and later solidified his political career when he became vice president of the BCM affiliate, the Black People’s Convention (BPC). …