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Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade … Eastern Cape and in national campaigns. It covers a period of…
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
… Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later … his undergraduate and Honours degrees at the…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in English, and he only entered school at the age of 12, when his elder…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Franchise Law Amendment Bill of 1894 sought…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal . Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation…
BiographyPaul Shipokosa Mashatile
… the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) . He co-founded the … in 1983 and was elected as…
BiographyLeon Levy
… Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, he was educated…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu. He attended the local primary … while a pupil at St John…
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew … Sibasa, Limpopo …
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… the Franchise , 1906 On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange … South Africans will be mainly…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
… Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant … in Marxism-Leninism and deeply devoted to the liberation of all…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa itself … get more emotional satisfaction from watching a black…
BiographySydney Kumalo
… before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the … is appropriate because it is a modern…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… "First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the … more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness of the game." Malcolm Payne…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… subsequently earned a teacher's certificate at the Prince of Wales College in 1930. During this period Nkrumah became … Black Lincoln college in Pennsylvania…
BiographyKerr Alexander
… Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. … Street Primary School in Greenock and then, in…
BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
… Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the … to study for his B Comm and LLB…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… major corporations were among the most loyal supporters of Pretoria’s racist regime, to which they sold arms, nuclear and industrial technologies, in total…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of British painting and internalised to a high degree the style of Augustus John (1878–1961). The…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Johannesburg, which was run by the Community of the Resurrection, a monastic order then headed in South … while a high school student. Under the leadership…
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
… Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East Pondoland who became the first state…
BiographyEmmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande
… on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education organisations, including National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA), Union of…
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
… Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil. President Lula had little formal…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… and lecturer. Both his parents were active members of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM). Jordan's family … he followed in their footsteps. He started…
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
… in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College, … He joined the South African Air Force at the…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
… in Pietermaritzburg, graduating from the then University of Natal with a BA.LLB in 1972. At University, he met Paul … law at the time. Alfers was called up…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… with then editor Jim Bailey, Sampson became editor of Drum magazine in Johannesburg. During this time, Sampson … On his return to Britain he joined the…
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a … entering the country, as he was not accompanied by any one of…
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… to Golders Green, a suburb in North London. At the age of four Huddleston served as a ‘boat boy’ in the Anglican Church, and at the age of five he went to a …