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… South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the Alexandra … and Life in Southern Africa A Bigger Picture - A manual of photojournalism in South Africa Premiere Histoire de la …

… in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a contemporary and friend of  Nelson Mandela ,  Ruth First , I. C. Meer, and other … Party  while a university student. He became a member of its Johannesburg  district committee; later, he left the …

… 1978 he worked for an Iron and Steel company until the end of 1985. His first pictures were exhibited at the roadside. … on the roadside he was introduced to the Co-ordinator of the Institute of Race Relations in Pietermaritzburg who motivated him to …

… was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district near Maseru. His early clay animals and figures were made with the aid of book illustrations. He later began modelling from life and …

… her growing up at a boarding school under the guardianship of the Dutch Reformed Church at Platteland in the Transvaal. … the 19-year-old Du Toit offered her services. The owner of the factory she was assigned was Jewish and worried about … and offered her a position as weaver. She was accused of being a Communist and suffered public rejection after …

… 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto , a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined Orlando Pirates. He entered the … proceedings to form his own team, to the disapproval of many in the football world. Amidst stern opposition, …

… Gauteng ) and studied fine art at the University College of Natal (now University of kwaZulu-Natal ). She went on to study graphic art in … herself a fine artist first before a poet. She spent most of her younger years abroad, living in countries like Israel, …

… before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. At the … a Coloured township under the Group Areas Act.  The eldest of six children, he was fascinated by literature from a very … Staffrider, as well as at Ravan Press, the publisher of dissident voices opposed to apartheid . In 1979, he …

… worker.  At a young age she was forcibly removed in terms of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her … Vlakfontein Technical High School, where two-thirds of the teachers were members of the South African Defence Force (SADF) . In early 1976, …

… Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political … the prominent politician, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman , leader of the African Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped … earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Cape Town, then in 1962 a law degree which she had pursued …

… car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the African National Congress (ANC) . She was actively … involved in various campaigns and in the organisation of campaigns. Molale was involved in the drawing up of the …

… communist movements. Four years later, he would become one of the 156 men and women accused in the Treason Trial that … death in 1959 at just 32 – five days after the birth of their third child, Sara – on the operating table of heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard . Widowed with …

… history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of the Afrikaans language movement. In a series of articles published in Die Afrikaanse Patriot , he pushed …

… in jazz music as a pianist and composer, where some of his own earliest inspirations included his grandmother, … Khoi-san songs and Christian hymns would be the birth of his love for music. At the age of seven, he began taking piano lessons, making his first …

… in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots census … that the family was then living in the Saltmarket area of the city which, at that time, was one of the worst slums in Glasgow. The family members were all …

… In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of Drum magazine , which was founded in 1951. In his book … NET in the United States. Nkosi has also been a Professor of Literature at various universities, including the University of Wyoming, the University of California-Irvine, and …

… Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th … Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act. On 11 December police informed his … himself. According to a statement released by the minister of police Mr Tshazibane had been held in connection with an …

… was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He … Worker’s Union (ICU) ,1920s and in 1926 he became a member of the African National Congress (ANC). In the late 1930s he served as chaplain of the Cape provincial ANCand from 1942 to 1946 was a …

… Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent her childhood growing up in Nieu … her activities in the years that followed the breakup of her marriage remains sketchy and often contradictory.  …

… She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo … at the Inanda Seminary (or Lindley's Seminary). Instead of following the teaching profession which was about the only … the time, she decided to become a nurse. She went to one of the few hospitals that did train Africans as nurses …

… Rev. Mzwandile Ebenezer Maqina was born in 2nd of October 1937,New Brighton .He grew up in Port Elizabeth ,the son of two teachers,attended Lovedale,taught briefly,and began … church in Port Elizabeth,the Spiritualist Church of Africa.In 1971 he was elected president of the African …

… Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) and, in the early 1920s, a secretary-general of the African National Congress. He attended Healdtown …

… Alexander was born in 1880 in  Port Elizabeth , the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became leader of the separatist African Orthodox Church, which had its headquarters in America. He was an officer of the Pretoria branch of the African People's Organization …

… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now  Kwazulu-Natal ), South … dispute with hospital management at the time. She was one of the strike leaders when Mr Robert Sobukwe first met her. … to Walter Sisulu to bring to his attention the plight of the nurses on strike. The bond between Zondeni Mathe and  …

… study". The genre emerged in SA at this time as a result of efforts by the likes of Leo Francois to create a school of figure painting as an antidote to the prevalence of …

… was born in Ranavav in India in 1862. He was the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer … medicine, shelter and food. His generosity inspired two of his sons to build a rest house for wayfarers in his memory … but taught himself Arabic, Urdu and Gujarati. At the age of 14 he decided to undertake a journey to South Africa and …

… 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and Agatha Petronella van Ammena. After studying law at the University of Utrecht, he left the country in 1764 to become a member of the Council of Justice in Batavia. In 1767 he married …

… De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot University College in Wellington and a …

… Zakes Nkosi and Elijah Nkwanyane formed the cornerstone of the mbaqanga style of music. He played with the legendary Jazz Maniacs, formed … maize bread”) developed to become an important genre of South African music. It is a blend of various styles, of …

… columnist, in which capacity he became a supporter of the Africanist faction within the  African National … trial apart from the campaign's leaders. He served part of his sentence and subsequently was appointed Witwatersrand regional chairman of the underground PAC. In 1961 he produced the PAC pamphlet  …