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… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth … years imprisonment in Robben Island for the activities of PAC armed wing Poqo (later APLA) in Eastern Cape in 1963. … who voluntarily stepped down from the leadership in favour of Pokela in 1981. Pokela was viewed in the PAC circles as …

… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the  Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was one of the hundreds detained. While in detention she was beaten …

… myths in words and pictures. SchlÁ¶sser’s collation of his texts into a Bantubibel in 1977 in part addresses Christianity and its rejection of traditional Zulu beliefs. His works are an expression of Zulu spirituality, religion and tradition. He was born in …

… in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he studied law at the University of Califonia in Los Angeles in  the United States before … practice. he was a co-founder with Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka of the African Democratic Party in 1943 and a Natives' … Free State from 1942 to 1948. In 1933 he became a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) but resigned in …

… in 1948.’ He pursed Medical studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1950s, but they were … and ‘to become a full-time political organiser at the time of the 1952 Defiance Campaign .’ His banishment order, dated 1 November 1956, banished him to ‘the ward of Chief Mgoqozi in Reserve No. 19’ in the Nkandla district …

… 1978, Barry enrolled as a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he studied until 1981. In 1985, he … supervisor at the Haven Night Shelter in the dock area of Cape Town for a year. During the 1980s, Barry continued to …

… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when it … the ANC'S unsuccessful campaign to forestall the removal of Africans from the area, which whites find to be too near …

… Seatlholo, together with Tsietsi Mashinini , was part of the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC) , with … Seatlholo as Deputy. Seatlholo took over the Presidency of the SSRC when Mashinini went into exile following a witch … joined Mashinini. Seatlholo would secretly come in and out of the country, from time to time, during the years that …

… in World War Two, he studied engineering at the University of Natal then and spent eight years in Britain. Later he studied politics and economics at Ruskin College. Two of these years were spent as a research fellow at Ruskin College, Oxford where he also became a member of the Draughtsman’s and Allied Technician’s Association. He …

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced removal of Botshabelo residents to make way for White farmers. This … firm and became actively involved in politics as member of the Progressive Party, which later became the  Progressive …

… Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities of apartheid and to empower young black South Africans … he joined Afrapix and set about to help establish a branch of Afrapix as well as a training workshop in Soweto . He …

… was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the … for three years in the Education Department, University of the Witwatersrand. Ismail Vadi has had a varied political … Front  (UDF) in the 1980s. He was a founder member of both the Lenasia Youth League and the Progressive …

… African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the late … on the CPSA district committee for Cape Town. He was one of the first leaders banned under the Suppression of Communism Act in 1952, at which time he was chairman of …

… struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This organisation offered support to … the Dutch public. In 1986 Braam was approached by leaders of the ANC in exile and asked to assist with Operation Vula. Braam went about helping with the setting up of safe-houses inside South Africa and with arranging the …

… task was to re - work the civil and judicial establishment of the Cape Colony. In 1828 he issued  Ordinance 50 , which … status with the Whites and could also acquire ownership of land. Hottentots could acquire land. The Ordinance was not going to repealed without the consent of the British government. The result of this law was …

… by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary of the Orange Free State African National Congress (ANC) and was secretary of the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  (ICU) for Griqualand West. In 1929 he was elected vice-president of the short­lived League of African Rights. He was later a …

… she graduated from Fort Hare and the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. She established a medical practice in … 1956 she moved to Natal and took over the Ixopo practice of  Winston Conco , then a defendant in the  Treason Trial . …

… active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took place. In 1956, 156 Congress … the campaign to draw up the Freedom Charter. Nkosi was one of the accussed in the infamous Treason Trial of 1956, but he …

… (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC national executive committee from 1949 to 1955 and … numerous conferences. While he shared the cautious views of many older ANC leaders as Africans entered the militant decade of the 1950s, he lent his support to the Defiance Campaign of …

… Mentz studied at the Conservatoire of Music at the University of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she spent some … in various organisations that promoted the development of opera and was a member of PACTS’s opera committee and of … (Source: E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of South African biography. Pretoria, 1995, pp. 172-173) …

… sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the University of Pretoria, obtaining a BA (FA). He taught history of art at Potchefstroom University then from 1975 he has … between Durban and various cities abroad. He was in charge of the co-ordination and printing of the 1996 Images of Human …

… and King William's Town, eventually made him one of the wealthiest Africans in the Cape, rivaling such men as  …  for influence among educated Africans. He was one of the four vice-presidents of the African National Congress at its founding, and a …

… onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer of the NIC, and in 1955 he was elected its vice-president. … exile and worked in Zambia with the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and the African National Congress … In the early 1980s he served as the Treasurer General of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), and in …

… was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in  Johannesburg . He made his way through the … but did not finish them. In 1935 he became president of the Transvaal African Students' Association and also … and between 1950 and 1952 he was the vice-president of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association. Arrested in …

… friend, fellow artist and colloborator, Steve Cohen says of Hodgkiss, “But inside the photographer was always the … photographing extensively in his studio and on several of his theatre productions, and contributing to a number of books on Kentridge. He has done important documentary and …

… and Mzuvele Secondary School, before becoming an Inspector of Education for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Culture in Ulundi. He was both a sculptor of busts and portraits, using indigenous hardwoods, and a …

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year Diploma at the Bartlett …

… better conditions for brick workers.    The Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the  African National Congress (ANC) , Makhohliso had a … On 5 December 1956, Makhohliso was arrested on charges of treason and flown in a military aircraft to Pretoria. From …

… his BA(FA) (Hons) degree in 1988. He was a founding member of the Zasha Art Group in Durban. He won the Maize Bread … Work in 1985.  He was a printmaker and sculptor of wood. He admired the work of Michael Zondi and said that Surrealism influenced his own …

… was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of  Springs ,  Gauteng  (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals … area made his family relocate to Kwa-Themba. He spent much of his childhood there as well as in Ratanda, Heidelberg with … where he grew up. Time spent talking with older members of the community in shebeens and with his older brother, …