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Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan
… Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold Medallist of Dublin University and became a D. Litt. in 1918…
BiographyMary Eveline Fincken
… Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was born of a musical family. Her grandfather and…
BiographyCassim Mohammed Bassa
… was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a businessman, and his wife Fathima. … to work as a research…
BiographyLindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, Walter and ……
BiographyProfessor Harold Jack Simons
… . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
… King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February … sun’. Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
… Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now … Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest…
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's early life, other than that he ran away from home … he was ten years old and went coal…
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
… father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his … mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… from Durban. She matriculated in 1959, at the age of 19. Tshabalala-Msimang went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 from the University of…
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
… known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a … His father, Mr E.V. Narasa Reddy, was a follower of…
BiographyGavin Jantjes
… born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD … FÁ¼r Bildende…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and … Marine College in 1927. In 1928 he left…
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
… 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from … in Cape Town as a fitter at the Salt River…
BiographyMyron Peter
… (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN]. Following the student boycotts in…
BiographyJames Matthews
… standard seven, Matthews began to work and held a variety of jobs, including newspaper boy, office messenger, clerk and telephonist. However, for Matthews,…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
… , had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray, had arrived as an infant. Both of his…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… at the Centre for Adult Education (CAE) at the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal). While at CSDS, she produced a manual on … 1983, she…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … How many more they brought I do not know. The then State…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… But we may first consider the more theoretical basis of the formula. This is stated in a draft resolution … was a case of a former empire turned into a…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… art as a medium to shed light on the political struggles of the time. His work will go on to leave a deep and … Africans as a whole. Paul was born in the…
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … set his foot on the Natal soil. Even in the Orange Free State,…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… was working on the preparations for the coming Congress of the People, the mass multiracial gathering to be held the … against the police. "South Africa is…
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… Nokutela Dube was the first wife of Reverend John Langalibalele Dube , the first President General of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC-…
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
… on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East London. Both of Tshwete’s parents were workers, which meant…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
… had been gaoled for supporting the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914; but unlike other members of his family, Kotze senior had not been a devout member of the…
BiographyJacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi
… representative to the Soviet Union's World Federation of Democratic Youth in Budapest, Hungary, from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he was elected as leader of the…
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
… Genealogical Tree Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha, the son of Dukuza, was born on 19 July 1879 at the Noodsberg Mission Station in the County of Victoria,…