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… in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown. Indictment quashed in 1959. After the trial, he was chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s. He was also …

… company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. Sangweni no lives in the Empangeni district where he works as a sculptor of figures and animals in wood. He is particularly concerned with the depiction of Zulu cultural history, of myths and folklore. He has …

… Arndt set about informing the government on the importance of pre-school education. She served as honorary secretary, … chairperson, president and honorary life president of the Nursery School Association of South Africa (later renamed the Southern African …

… Qabula was taken in to live with the O’Rielleys – friends of his fathers. A month later, his younger brother moved to … to their home in Flagstaff. Qabula first became aware of national politics in 1959 at the age of 17 when the troubles facing the African National Congress …

… Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson , who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 Gail …

… me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We … other ‘Madala’ – old man – it became our standard form of informal address. To me it signifies mutual trust, … instance, your anti-Communism and opposition to united action with other liberation organisations) you saw the value …

… the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943] PURPOSE OF THIS PAMPHLET In this pamphlet the "Anti-C.A.D. Committee" … latest moves against the Coloured People, a section of the non-European oppressed of South Africa. We tell you … in other words, that part of the Department of Interior action as a Department of Coloured Affairs in actual fact, …

… 22 June 1937 in Johannesburg. He attended the University of Stellenbosch. Schoon moved to the University of Witwatersrand to continue with his post-graduate studies. While at the University he joined the Congress of Democrats . In 1964 Schoon helped plant a bomb at the …

… (1844-1893), a former teacher at the Cape Town School of Art in the 1870s. He brought a number of tese with him, for five of them, along with fourteen Cape scenes, were shown at the …

… wood carving there from Sister Pauline CR. On completion of his course, he remained at the College teaching Zulu until … In 1933, Mancoba enrolled as a student at the University of Fort Hare. During this time, he served as the chairperson of the Literary and Debating Societies there. In 1936, he was …

… High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an interest in photography … pharmacy. After winning the "Nikon Press Photograph of the Year" for an image used in a student newspaper, he … Sunday Times and others. He was the managing director of the Market Theatre Photography Workshop for a short while, …

… Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange … in the Soviet Union ,and at one time was a member of the South African Communist Party Central Committee(SACPCC … Ruth Mompati in London as chief represntative of the ANC in late 1983,then as head of the ANC's Paris …

… to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up in Boksburg. Du Plessis … his B.Sc. degree in 1960 at Potchefstroom University of Higher Christian Education and in 1961 also completed his … foray into the political arena. He was elected as Chairman of the Students’ Representative Council, which enabled him to …

… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the  South African Coloured People's Organisation  (SACPO) … He was born in the Cape in 1922. He finished 10 years of schooling and became apprenticed as a bricklayer. After … in the navy in  World War II , he became an active member of the Building Workers' Union. SACPO was founded in 1953, …

… 1929 he went to England and attended the Bolt Court School of Process Engravings and returned to SA in 1930 and received … Anti-tank Regiment and was captured later that year south of El-Alamein. He was part of a team of SA artists responsible for the art work in …

… Moroka Township, Johannesburg, and in 1949 became a member of the Moroka Advisory Board. He joined the African National … Congress in 1947 and participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. He was elected secretary of the Transvaal ANC in 1955, he also served on the national …

… poor. Saloojee began his school in Sophiatown at the age of 6. He was unhappy in the beginning as his clothes were old … was more important, and pointed to Dadoo as an example of what people could become if they were educated. Dadoo … become like Dadoo. A few years later, after the failure of his father’s business, Saloojee’s family moved to …

… Lord William Palmer, the second Earl of Selborne was born in 1859. He studied history at the University of Oxford. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies from 1895 to 1900, when he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He came to South Africa to succeed Lord …

… later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After teaching for many years, he went into business as a butcher in Kimberley. An executive member of both the All African Convention and the  African National …  (ANC) in the 1940s, Sesedi rejected the boycott policy of these organisations and ran successfully for election to …

… first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was born in 1890. When the  National …  formed its first government in 1948 he became Minister of Economic Affairs. He was appointed to the finance portfolio in 1955, became Minister of Foreign Affairs two years later, and represented South …

… as a Physical Science teacher at Springfield College of Education, Durban. He taught Science in schools in KZN, … township in South Africa. Rajgopaul was also a member of Afrapix.  He contributed to the Staffrider exhibitions of 1983, 1984, and 1985 and to the book exhibition Nicht Wird …

… and sent five paintings to the SASA Annual Exhibition. One of them was Marjorie aged Four Years(1918), a portrait of her daughter. In 1922, Kay sent a further work to Cape … Reynolds asserts that Kay had kept her membership of SASA over many years. She also relates how Kay decided to …

… at the Swedish Lutheran mission trade school. At the age of twenty-five while an instructor at the Edendale Vocational … After leaving the hospital he served with the Department of Information until 1972. In 1992 and 2008 Zondi suffered … David Koloane). 1976 France (group). 1977 National Gallery of Rhodesia, Salisbury(SAArt). 1978 Residence of the French …

… blossoming career coincided with South Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. … In that year he was named the South African Cricketer of the Year. Richards stunned the cricket fraternity in … he scored 1538 runs, which sets a new record for the state of Sheffield. Richards played in four tests before South …

… with a union which was concerned with the interests of female cleaning staff. She found out that many were … harassed in their jobs and had no legal rights. Membership of the union grew to 3 000 and conditions were improved. In … Komape attended a workshop organised by the  Federation of Transvaal Women  (FEDTRAW) where she objected to the …

… was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents … Massacre in 1960, and soon he became the chief organiser of the Coloured People's Congress (CPC), an organisation … Stein  carried the torture scars on his legs for the rest of his life. Stein was later the first struggle figure to be …

… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … in the work I took on. So when the exceptional case of Solomon Mahlangu landed on my desk, and in my view needed … Riotous Assemblies Act, it was used to criminalise protest action. If a murder or other offence was committed by one …

… M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his … he held until 1963. In 1954 he became acting chairman of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, and when the  South African …

… 1932 he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cape Town ,where he fell in with swtudent radicals who … in his absence and factions developed over the question of whether white leadersship was necessary to promote black … Gordon went to port Elizabeth where he launched a range of new unions among cement,soft drinks,food and …

… Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She lived in Johannesburg and worked as the …