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BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… administrations in southern Africa and, finally, by apartheid. Kleinschmidt attended the University of the … payment to prevent her from becoming a martyr to…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… in exile. They formed a United Front because there were issues on which they agreed, like the boycott of South … United Nations. They operated from his house…
Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town by Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Moses, Jeremy Seekings
… in the New South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Apartheid Cape Town … in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in post-apartheid Cape…
‘United Nations must take action to Destroy Apartheid’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 29 October 1963
… ‘United Nations must take action to Destroy Apartheid’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political …
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
… Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the … at the University of Cape Town in 1958. His opposition to…
BiographyLeleti Khumalo
… be reckoned with as a black South African actress during apartheid era.In 1991, together with Whoopi Goldberg, Khumalo … the story of a 1976 student uprising…
BiographyAllister Sparks
… Mail was the major voice of the liberal opposition to the Apartheid government and Sparks made a name for himself when he revealed that the committed…
BiographyNdeutala Selma Hishongwa
… Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying Apartheid , a novel about a newlywed couple in northern … marriage. It depicts the ways that the…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
… townships. There she witnessed the heavy-handedness of the apartheid government’s security forces, experiences that she … Several of these works contrast the…
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… freedom in South Africa. As a trade unionist during the apartheid era, he was among the leading people who actively fought against the apartheid system…
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
… India with his family. The young Mahomed Barmania attended City College, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India and the … and the local school board. Upon his death…
BiographyMartin Plaut
… on Africa and the Middle East. He liaised with the Anti-Apartheid Movement as part of his role as Secretary of the … the Party on many bodies, including the…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… this time, he became one of the founders of the anti-Apartheid movement in the United States of America. In 1967, … the 1980s. Once again he became a major…
BiographyEthel Walt
… of leisure and privilege while ignoring the realities of apartheid. However, her courage and conviction forced her to … away from this comfort to fight…
BiographyGlenn Moss
… which aimed to educate White students on resistance to Apartheid. As a result of his political activities, the Apartheid Government withdrew Moss’s passport…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… also an inspiration for Gandhi, who drew on his dislike of urban life. Tolstoy considered agricultural labour to be a … Satyagraha campaign was revived ,…
Sizakele Sigxashe
… Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities. He left the country in 1964 and joined … Mongalo, Aziz Pahad and Mtu Jwili…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
… sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial by the apartheid regime in 1964. Upon his release in 1987, he was … immediately part of the people's…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF), an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. Oscar was only released in October …
BiographyChris van Wyk
… Ravan Press, the publisher of dissident voices opposed to apartheid . In 1979, he published one of the most-quoted anti-apartheid poems, “In Detention”,…
BiographyHamilton Naki
… he was never involved in surgery on human subjects. Under Apartheid Hamilton was disadvantaged because he was barred … this reason, his role was gradually…
BiographyDonald James Woods
… As result Woods was prosecuted several times for violating apartheid’s publication laws. Woods in turn successfully sued the apartheid government for…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Lotter who was employed by the Johannesburg Municipal City Orchestra. Marie had recently returned from four years …
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… of South African Airways personnel. According to the City Press , even at the age of 83 one would find Makgothi … S, (2011). Squire ”“ revolutionary until…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of experts for the support of victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle, 09 April 1973, OSLO
… African Unity and the United Nations in the fight against apartheid and colonialism. The key word in the declared … people is raging wherever the forces of…
BiographyBarry “Anderson” Richards
… Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. In 1968 he performed in an … who staged a walk-off in protest against the…
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… focused on carrying out a campaign of sabotage against the apartheid regime’s infrastructure. In 1961, Vigne stood for … campaign . He actively campaigned…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… participating in radical movements such as the anti-apartheid movement and the Soweto Uprising organised by the … protests and campaigns directed at…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… and was actively involved in the struggle against the Apartheid government. In the early 1960s Dinat studied at … was active in the African National Congress…
BiographyHendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn
… doctorate for her untiring work in connection with urban housing for the underprivileged. He was survived by his …