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… in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, and at the Staatliche Akademie … 1950s. Strachan was an anti-apartheid activist and was one of the few early members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) , the …

… most artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of the second intake of artists who commenced classes in 1971. The early 1970s saw …

… For over twenty years she unobtrusively produced some of the most original and creative studio pots. She used the restricted Rorke’s Drift palette of brown, ochres and yellow, blue and black in her pots.  Decoration began with the application of clay coils, dots or texture in a basic repeat pattern. …

… as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the Department of Education and after three years obtained the post as State … managed to slip through the enemy lines dressed in clothes of his wife. He moved with his family to Europe where he … in South Africa in 1907 he was employed at the Department of Home affairs. For ten years he did mainly translations of …

… a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree … and her Masters in Philosophy in 1982 at the University of the Witwatersrand. While at the University of the Witwatersrand she also taught and organised seminars …

… He was an early leader of the  African National Congress  (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the Natal … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… Born on the 3rd of August 1964 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Marthinus Hattingh … his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon at the end of 1995. While studying he started to freelance for the local … with the Sunday Times .  In 1997 he joined the department of photography at the Vaal Triangle Technikon as a lecturer …

… Mzwandile  Majova,  Paulos Madiba,  Aaron Makwe,  members of the African National Congress  (ANC) and  uMkhonto we … Reconcilaition Commission prepared to exhume the bodies of Aaron Makwe, Watson Majova and Paulos Madiba on a farm near Boshoek, outside Rustenburg. An employee of the undertakers responsible for burying them pointed out …

… settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman … In his own opinion this trip deepened his understanding of the conditions in which black people in South Africa lived … that he should use his photographs to expose the evils of the system. As Hartman put it, “As a student and the UDF …

… February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his … on urban life in Mozambique, depicting the abused children of the street, the overpopulated township areas and other harsh realities of poverty and racism. The political challenges his work …

… periods in England, he exhibited at the RA in London. Both of the works featured here were shown on SASA exhibitions in … acquired by the SANG. They demonstrate his command of fine techniques in oil and tempera. A London Tea Shop, painted in England in about 1937, consists of a long horizontal panel painted in egg tempera. It was …

… Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), culminated … in a fight in which 23 people were killed. A commission of enquiry blamed Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata of the Mtembu …

… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one of the accused in the Treason Trial. After leaving South …

… born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg , during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was … Oil. Makeba’s mother was also a sangoma, or a practitioner of herbal medicine, divination and counselling in traditional … Zulu , Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi (Nguni) societies of Southern Africa. Her father died when she was five years …

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee of the  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1958 and a …

… between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand. While a student in Johannesburg, he was elected to the first executive committee of the Youth League in September 1944. At the Bloemfontein …

… for the Kampen town, and later promoted to a position of a second secretary. At that time he was married to Arnelia … child, Julie Philippe Augusta de Mist. After the death of his wife de Mist married Elisabeth Margaretha Morre and he … His career took on new heights in 1795 when the Republic of Batavia was created and he was appointed Governor-General. …

… near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he … Elizabeth in the early 1950s, he later served as treasurer of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. He was a leader of the 1952 Defiance …

… Jabu, recalls that her grandfather, Julius, wrote a book of poems called Umlondolozi , which is now lost. He received … self-trained as a sculptor. According to his daughter one of the professors at the UN(D) arranged exhibitions of his work, the most successful of which was held at the …

… a photographer at the Corporate Relations Department of Technikon Free State whilst working on a number of personal documentary photographic projects.  Awards 1993 … Photographic Awards: (Regional winner for Africa) Winner of the South African Picture Essay Documentary Awards (Two …

… in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from … confinement for several months during the 1960 state of emergency. In 1963 he was banned and restricted to his …

… Australian landscapes in Johannesburg. Always in pursuit of views, she often arrived uninvited on remote farms … The Press romanticised her as an artist in ceaseless quest of exotic places: "She has ranged over Kenya, Rhodesia, … and overseas. Mount Kenya, Ruanzari, the Mountains of the Moon are not merely names to her, and she has …

… Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying … on their marriage. It depicts the ways that the violence of the apartheid regime manifests as violence within a household, and centralizes the role of SWAPO within the liberation struggle. In 1986, it was …

… in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was marginal - letters to the press, membership of the non-racial Liberal Party (LPSA), and so on. On 30 … scurrying and protests followed. Her own account of nearly two months in prison ( Go Well, Stay Well , 1961) …

… dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family … report concerning the death released by the minister of police on 23 February 1977 said that Mr Tshwane was caught … shot dead by the police.An inquest was held and verdict of 'justifiable homicide'given. In answer to a question put …

… was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High … job that opened his eyes to the poverty and insecurity of black urban workers.He was asked by the Black Allied … fire killed his mother and uncle,and on the day of their funerals,police shot dead Gqweta's fiancee.Brutally …

… as it was an honour for Mope, and an acknowledgement of his contribution to soccer in both the city and the country. The formal announcement of the renaming took place at the stadium on 16 May 2010 … known, and during the early 70s, fans called him "The god of football". Defenders feared him, and goal keepers dreaded …

… Mozambican fighter for FRELIMO who like thousands of women fought for independence for her country until she died at the tender age of 25. 7 April marks the day she died – a day celebrated as … 1980s, nor when I became active in the London based Black Action for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BALSA). The …

… Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on the south coast of Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. In early November 1959, Mnyandu … Native Commissioner (NC) in Umbumbulu, on the south coast of Natalon 7 November. He went to meet him with other members of the community delegation but was the only one permitted …

… Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the December 1960 consultative conference of African leaders in Johannesburg. A clerk by occupation, he was briefly a member of the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) before 1950 …