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BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
… Boys High School in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in … was seconded to Lisbon University through…
BiographyDumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula
… From 1989 to 1993 he was Regional Co-ordinator Congress of South African Writers (COSAW). He has done book illustrations for a number of publications and in…
BiographyMarion Gill
… from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, … her true medium when she went to the…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
… valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe,…
BiographyGeorge Matthias Winkles
… 1888 he showed regularly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and still sent work to them after settling in SA. … His love for a woman named Ada…
BiographyAri Sitas
… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a professor and the head…
John Alfons Pandeni
… Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and … People’s Liberation Army of…
BiographyConnie Mofokeng
… 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…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… 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…
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… 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 …
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… I now turn to examine select aspects of SASO's organisation and its activities related to student … (Kotze, 1975: 183). Political work was said to entail the…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early morning of 5…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
… 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)…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
… 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…
BiographyIan David Kitson
… 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…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
… 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…
BiographyMichael Barry
… 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 ……
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
… Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang; MECs; Distinguished … important Health Summit. As I understand it, the purpose of this Summit is to review…
BiographyNhlanhla Benjamin Nsusha
… College in 1972, ELC 1975-1977 and at the Slade School of Art, London, from 1983 to 1985. In 1988 he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in sculpture from the…
BiographyConny Braam
… struggle against apartheid and Braam was the leader of this organisation. This organisation offered support to … the Dutch public. In 1986 Braam was…
BiographySir. Richard Bourke
… 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…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
… 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…
BiographyCecil Sols
… Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… has shown how working life changed for the millions of people who came to live on the Rand between 1886 and 1940. … revolutionised the economy, the society…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by expressing the thanks of the African National Congress and of my own self to the Greater London Council (GLC), the … to…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by expressing the thanks of the African National Congress and of my own self to the Greater London Council (GLC), the … to…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
… 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…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… (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…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
… 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…