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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… to reach some sort of agreement on the land and property issues. On 29 March 1944, the SAIC presented a memorandum to … his trial in 1944. He spent much of…
BiographyJohnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini
… before teaching in Mzinyathi in the Inanda area. When the apartheid government imposed Bantu Education he resigned from … message of freedom internationally…
BiographyCedric Nunn
… among the photographers documenting the resistance against apartheid in the 1980s. He contributed to "Culture and … Camera, Fire Artspace, Durban. Group 2012…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… seized power and began to set in motion plans to implement apartheid. 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is … Welfare’ to investigate the needs of the…
BiographyAlan Wieder
… been working since 1999 with South Africans who fought the apartheid regime. Besides numerous academic articles, hais … most recently Ruth First and Joe…
BiographySelbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
… of the vibrant black political and cultural life of the city, befriending artists and political activists. He joined … He was a leading light of the…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
… over to their families on 8 March 2014at the East London City Hall. Velaphi’s remains were handed to his family for … an official ceremony on 8 March 2014 in…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… victory of the National Party (NP) and the beginnings of apartheid, the League drew up a Programme of Action in 1948. … Nationalism. Moroka's National…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… expressed increasing dissatisfaction with South Africa's apartheid, a strict form of segregation, especially after … "Coloured people" to both black and…
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
… 000. Matlala ended his 30-year boxing career at Carnival City, Brakpan by stopping Colombian Juan Herrera for the WBU …
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
… Congress in Bergen in 1973, the 11th Congress in Mexico City in 1978 and the 12th congress in New Delhi in 1984. …
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
… His wife, Magdalena Maria, was a member of the Pretoria City Council from 1937 to 1962, served as chairperson or …
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
… was appointed cultural officer in the Johannesburg City Council and took over Ezrom Legae's position at the …
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
… elected as a BNF Councillor for Babusi Ward in Gaborone City Council, and retired after the 1994 elections.Despite …
BiographyIsaiah Stein
… activism. Stein’s involvement in the struggle against apartheid became more radical after the Sharpeville Massacre … and with the help of another great…
BiographyVesta Smith
… to ensuring that those involved in bringing an end to Apartheid had access to legal representation, was a … respect and support for people who faced the…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… who challenged social injustices, whether these related to Apartheid or to the Indian caste system. [iii] The family … as a human rights lawyer she saw the…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… leaving behind. It was located about 300 meters from the City Council sewerage. The housing was a V shaped shack … ensured a desired tight control of black…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… to facilitate rapid communication. The two most urgent issues Milner had to deal with were resettlement and … lines, & to agree, or differ, on other than…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… was to be the site of Sindiso’s first intimation of what Apartheid meant in South Africa. The town was mixed but … school in Cradock . One of his most vivid…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… portray what life was really like for peasants forced into urban labour. 1911 Olive Schreiner's the polemical Women and … all over the country. And it was…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… often used as platforms for building new ones during the apartheid era, [ii] so to understand those which famously … occurred under the Group Areas Act (and…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… was a period in South African history that predated formal apartheid but was nonetheless defined by racial segregation. … for the Tutu family after the…
Opening Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, …
Statement at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th birthday, April 10, 1978
… at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th …
BiographyJohannes Jacobus Degenaar
… However, Degenaar consistently refused to conform to apartheid ideology and to curtail his ideas. In his writings, Degenaar uncompromisingly denounced the…
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… we Sizwe (MK) in Angola instead, in order to oppose the apartheid government. The 1980s was a turbulent time in … murdered, Zondo was instructed to…
BiographyMagade Madapu
… the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under Apartheid by Professor S. Badat …
BiographyBhungwana Saul Mngomezulu
According to documentation related to his banishment order, in 1965, after the death of Chief Zombizwe, Ntunja Mngomezulu was appointed chief of the Mngomezulu…
BiographyMalesella Benjamin Moloise
… he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at Pretoria Central … was involved. The US and the Soviet…