SAHO global search

1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… the musical production King Kong that sought to promote black jazz musicians and non-racial performances. She was …

B-0080342

1956

Richard Steele

… attending protest meetings. The violence and anger in both Black people and the South African Defence Force (SADF) …

B-0074123

1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… club, Manchester United. Edwin Stein was the first Black person to become a  Manager of a football team, Barnet …

B-0064870

1922

Elsa Joubert

… tale of the endless adversity and struggle of a humble black woman under Apartheid laws - had a major impact, both …

B-0008221

1933-1965

Ingrid Jonker

… engaged with the cause of the poor and the lot of black South Africans from the position of a common humanity. …

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… of a worker was intrinsically linked to the oppression of black people. Dlamini was an accused in the Treason Trial of …

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

… the 1940s or 1950s Ngudle witnessed bulldozers demolish black-owned homes in Kensington to make way for a White …

B-0008782

1798-1853

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius

… was highly regarded by both the British and local Black leaders and when he died in Magaliesberg on 23 July …

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1873-1917

Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube

… unique nursery for independence and self-employment among black South Africans and Africans of neighbouring British …

B-0093906

1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… gender discrimination, especially discrimination against Black women. Suzman was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 36 …

B-0009113

1942

Feziwe Bookholane

… to read books on her own, because she was the only black nun. She wrote to the Bishop to get a dispensation and …

B-0095354

1933-2012

Evelina de Bruin

… she became distressed. For instance, from November 1989, Black Sash and other women’s organisations piled pressure on …

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1925-2020

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

… its secretary for the Johannesburg region, responsible for black groups. In 1951 he formally joined the ANC Youth …

B-0008579

1933

Motsoko Pheko

… through African eyes (1969) My ups and downs: a black Christian in Southern Africa (1976) The Early Church in …

B-0081677

1956

Patric Tariq Mellet

… exhibition on the war against terrorism and subjected to a black “Mr X” giving a very gruesome story-line of ANC and … involved with after seeking out young…

B-0008542

1917-1993

Oliver Tambo

… wrote his Junior Certificate (JC) examination, alongside Black and White students in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). For … but at the time, no tertiary medical…

B-0009119

1954-1979

Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi

… at the University of the North in 1974. The Hamanskraal “Black Renaissance Convention” meeting was another session …

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1888-1942

Ruth Alexander

… the grounds that it was calculated merely to ‘dilute’ the black vote in the Cape. Other key figures from the WEL too, …

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1917-2004

Villa Baker

… stop her from being active in the women’s’ organisation, Black Sash . She marched, in Pretoria, with Helen Joseph and …

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1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… to burn the hated pass books that the law required all black people to carry on them. As a member of the Matopo …

B-0008609

1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… meetings, she came into contact with one of the foremost black intellectual, I.B Tabata , who was the founding member …

B-0089634

1920-1973

Robert M. Resha

… whiteman. Whites talk about white civilisation; we have a black civilisation too.  We are fighting against nobody but …

B-0008948

1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… including Botha himself, who hunted and braaied the rare black-faced impala. Botha flanked by his generals, launched …

B-0008853

1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… of South Africa (CPSA) in Durban, making her the second black woman to join the CPSA after Josie Palmer  (Mphama) . …

B-0094629

1923-2013

Denis Mayer

… in the USSR, and this, together with his efforts to assist black workers at his work place with personal and legal …

B-0097631

1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… involving Verwoerd over the removal of the few remaining Black people from the common voters' roll. Uys and his …

B-0096897

Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… Education Act and the suggested removal of the Hurutshe “black spots.”’ Considered a "thorn in the flesh” of the …

B-0094016

1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… ceremony. He was also instrumental in training a number of Black photographers among them Joe Gqabi .  Gqabi was …

B-0009221

1934

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…

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