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… Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve … , she was involved in political activism and promotion of the BCM during the 1970s. Raised by an activist mother and … educated at the girls-only Inanda Seminary School outside of Durban , KwaZulu-Natal , where she was encouraged to think …

… after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of the shearing. In 1820 Moshoeshoe succeeded his father, Mokhacane, as the chief of the Bamokoteli. His first settlement was at Butha Buthe, …

… a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. He grew … Martin, who earned but a meager income, took over the role of breadwinner of the family. As a youngster Fourie learnt in numerous …

… spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he married Cornelia Margaretha Kruger, a woman …

… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van Rooyen). He was born near Winburg on 22 October 1847. After the Battle of Boomplaats, the British confiscated their farm so the … They had ten children. He fought in the  Basotho War  of 1865 and the war against  Sekhukhune  in 1876. He did not …

… New York Times called her an actress 'who reads the soul' of Fugard. Bryceland's collaborations with Fugard were many … and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children . Of his experience of working with Bryceland, Fugard, John Kani and Winston …

… up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial … experiences with photography were as a teen when one of his sisters gave him his first camera.He grew up in … years at the Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto; one of the hotbeds of the violently suppressed Soweto uprising in …

… South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski family in Namibia. At the age of thirteen, Lubowski was sent to Stellenbosch to complete …

… Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King,  Dinuzulu  kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and … is like a bow which has a string bound down to the middle of the bow) and was also a singer and poet. Despite being … married. This enabled her to contribute in the development of traditional music. Through the training of many young …

… six years with  Daily News  he became chief subeditor of  The Northern Newspaper , which was serving the Copper … Ndola, Zambia. Five years later he became assistant editor of the Sunday Mail  in Salisbury (Harare) and three years … Chronicle . From Bulawayo Chronicle he became editor of the short-lived Sunday Chronicle in Johannesburg, before …

… (1)  Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a … work was only published in the 80s and 90s. Ngcobo was one of the main speakers during the 1956 women’s anti-pass march … but it was not until 1981 that her first book, Cross of Gold, was published. This is a book of which she says "I …

… born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who gave much support and money … to treat malaria), which resulted in a slight impairment of her hearing. In March 1927, at the age of 19, she married …

… Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father, John Knox Bokwe , in Ugie, East Griqualand, … Dube. He was also a physician. In 1928 he began the study of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying as a …

… and Economics from Oxford University, and a Bachelor of Philosophy from York University. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster established … contribution to scholarship, especially in the field of Industrial Sociology. His book Cast in a Racial Mould …

… Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, … and certificates. In 1971 he enrolled at the University of Cape Town to study medicine. He completed his medical … was exposed to the hardships and poverty-related diseases of workers. He worked mainly in overcrowded Black hospitals …

… Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which … by the government, she resigned as a serving member of the United Party and established the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League (Black Sash) in 1955, of which she …

… Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th  of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the founding of Dlangezwa High School in Natal in 1969 where he was …

… Zac de Beer was born on 11 October 1928. He was the second of four children of Jean Isobel and Zacharias Johannes de Beer, a medical … to 45. He completed an MB ChB degree at the University of Cape Town for in 1951. While at UCT his political career … Beer, Zacharias Johannes (Zach) . O\'Malley - "The Heart of Hope” [Online]. Available at: nelsonmandela.org [Accessed …

… in the district. He became interested in the planning of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary trip to the … and several hundred kinsmen were killed on the orders of Zulu  King Dingane  following a failed land exchange agreement. Pretorius had advanced to a position of Commandant-General in the Boer army and was asked to lead …

… In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas … under one roof. During the 1950’s, it became the cradle of the first professional African Artists whose art was mainly concerned with the social conditions of their segregated settlements. Legae then studied with …

… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human and Rousseau. … re-invented his father's industry around a philosophy of consumer sovereignty that may have tried him, but … stores, 166 franchise outlets, 30 000 staff and a turnover of more than R 1 billion, had a greater market share than all …

… in Johannesburg - is interested primarily in questions of the body and how to reclaim the black female body in … a sculptural figure who traverses the uncanny valleys of liminal space. Sophie is personal. Her visage is modeled … after the artist herself, and she draws on the history of the women in Sibande’s family who worked as maids …

… 1639 and then further on to Dejima (today forming part of Nagasaki) in Japan in 1643. In 1645 van Riebeeck was given charge of the Dutch East India Company trading station at Tongkin in … van Riebeeck spent 18 days in Table Bay , near the Cape of Good Hope, which, upon his return, he advocated as an …

… frontier wars. Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King of the Rharhabe division of the Xhosa nation. Implacably opposed to his father's …

… (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University, United Kingdom. He has published a number of books and articles on South Africa’s security forces and …

… in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the … became involved in politics, and was arrested in the case of the State versus Zephania Mothopeng and 17 Others for staging protests in support of the Soweto uprisings of 1976 . He was imprisoned for about …

… and Resistance" in 1982 and to the Staffrider exhibitions of 1983, 1984 and to the "Year of the Woman" exhibition in 1984. His work was includes a … Separate Us) held in Bern in 1983. In 1994 he was part of a team of photographers documenting South Africa’s first …

… was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children.  He came to South Africa when he was five … School in 1961, after which he studied at the University of Stellenbosch, obtaining a BA degree majoring in geography … on students. He did this in his capacity as founder-editor of the Progressive Party's Afrikaans journal Deurbraak …

… “Papwa” Sewsunker Sewgolum was born in 1930, into a family of poor sugarcane labourers in Natal. He started working at … as an exceptional player. Sewgolum began to dream of playing professionally and finally made a brilliant debut … won the tournament, and to the eternal disgrace and shame of both the white golfing fraternity and government …

… Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘ homeland’ , now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents noted his year of birth as 1938, a date still recognised as correct in many … multiple other jobs. Mudzunga was in his eighth year of working as a driver in Johannesburg for the packaging …