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… entry into other areas and into the urban areas is merely of a temporary nature and for economic reasons. In other … not as settlers'. - Dr. W. W. M. Eiselen, Secretary of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development. … class. Behind the "self-government" talk lies a grim programme of mass evictions, political persecution and police …

… most Country on mainland Africa, situated at the tip of the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator … it distinguished itself by adopting a national programme of Scientific Socialism – literally meaning … Ahmed, Ali Jimale, ed. The Invention of Somalia. Lawerenceville: The Red Sea Press, 1995.|Hansen, …

… Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain … in getting this group put together, but was not part of the committee that came to South Africa. …

… prosecutor in a hostage smile and I in the borrowed robes of my grandmother’s wisdom corn she said cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens … The day after our 90-day imprisonment ended our … in freedom: he acted as a revolutionary - and it is in action, ultimately, that these moral conflicts are solved. …

… furthering or were calculated to further, the achievement of any of the objects of communism. Because of this satisfaction he … The South African Broadcasting Company suddenly produced a programme on me as part of their regular broadcast to …

… in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer and received eight cuts. Modiba … African National Congress (ANC) delegate at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. …

… Congress  (ANC). In 1918 he was arrested on charges of incitement in connection with the Rand "bucket strike" of sanitation workers. The charges were eventually withdrawn, … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of four children, and had an elder sister Joan and brother … Her father was a chemist by training and was the president of the Point Yacht Club, as Jews were banned from the Royal …

… B.  Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by occupation, he was secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation in the …

… the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from … Edited  Indian Opinion  in 191,1 during the imprisonment of Gandhi and Polak. …

… where he matriculated. He then went to the University of the Western Cape, where he did a B.Sc. degree with … M.Ed. degrees at Rhodes University. Oliphant's first book of poems, Bloed vloei in stilte (Blood flows in silence), was … International Festival in Rotterdam. His second book of poetry, Die sagte vlees (The soft flesh), was published in …

… During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act , there was great panic and … give moral support to those arrested and visited families of detainees to make sure life continued as best as possible. …

… was a lecturer at the Technikon Natal. He has won a number of awards and has undertaken public commissions. He has exhibited on numerous group shows and has a number of solo exhibitions. His work is represented in public and …

… lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of both University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University. …

… Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to … with a colleague, was responsible for restoring a section of the Malay Quarter in the Cape. She also transformed the … E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of South African biography. Pretoria, 1995, pp. 223-224 …

… She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London … for her bronze sculpture. She has served as President of the NSA in the 1970s. Her work is represented in public …

… seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage. It was during his prison years on Robben Island … him to complete a BA Fine Art degree with the University of Cape Town in 1994. In 1978 and 1990 he worked as assistant … Davis now lives there with his family as an employee of the Robben Island Museum, where he first worked as a tour …

… East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for  … old through a newspaper article. Sono was left in the care of his ailing grandparents in a tiny Soweto home. …

… Acted as President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, … Ingogo and Majuba Hill. Joubert became commandant-general of the Transvaal and managed to crush the Jameson Raid in …

… in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the  Defiance Campaign  for defying … Defiance Campaign, 1952. Accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 and acquitted. Subsequently sentenced to two and a …

… , alongside co-star Joe Mafela. Udeliwe tells the story of a country girl from Kwa Zulu-Natal to the City of Gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of fashion and wins a beauty queen title. The fairytale takes …

… brought home an old box camera that he had dug out of a Dundee dumping lot.  On his thirteenth birthday he … then a White photographer taught him the finer techniques of photography. From 1933 to 1935 he worked as a labourer at … to Lesotho to cover the Independence Celebrations of that country. He worked for Umafrika, Ilanga, the Natal …

… on the two-year course at Rorke's Drift. On completion of the course the following year, Baloyi joined the National … (Black SA Today). DAM (Art SA Today). 1976: SA Institute of Race Relations, Johannesburg (three-person with Nats … Shell Gallery, Johannesburg ('Explorations' exhibition of work by Sokhaya Nkosi, Vincent Baloyi and AIA students). …

… or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of a scholarship, Rive attended high school in Cape Town and studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he graduated in 1949. Rive then …

… the university where I am a professor, or over the ways of seeing the world shared by so many of us still living in … the racist ideology that helped him justify his colonial programme. Colonialism continued to shape Oxford in less … members were to ending racism in all its forms. The first action of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford was to protest a debate …

… Skotnes at Poly Street Art Center and later was a pupil of Sydney Kumalo. From 1961 to 1968 he was an assistant an … his upbringing in a Protestant home, the ecstatic dancing of dervishes captivated his imagination. His parents were respected members of the Dutch Reformed Church in which his father served as an …

… especially skilled fielder and his acrobatics in pursuit of the ball are renowned. He seems to be able to successfully … disorder and, according to Kathryn Pahl, National Director of Epilepsy South Africa, “Jonty is one of the most prominent figures world wide who openly …

… and was apparently able to support himself from the sale of his art.  It is highly possible that the watercolour portraits painted by Arthur Butelezi were of people that he knew very well. This would distinguish them … relationship with the sitter. Like the great pioneer of western art in West Africa, Aina Onabolu (1882–1963), …

… Dr. Mpofu noticed that the field of dermatology tended to be neglected by black doctors, and … woman to qualify as a dermatologist through the College of Medicine in South Africa. …

… died in detention on 29 March, 1985. A fellow-detainee of Mvulane said: "I saw a white policeman in Katlehong Police … amiss only when he failed to appear in court with the rest of the accused on 7 March. He died on 29 March. The police …