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… primary school teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele … white campuses. NUSAS had Black and White students as members. SASO was formed in 1969, under the leadership of … of political activism and her studies, Ramphele qualified as a doctor in 1972. She began her medical internship at …

… Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), as a first-year medical student. Two years later, he enlisted … Force (SADF) and saw action in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he resumed his medical … internship with Professor Frank Forman, he spent a year as a registrar in the Pathology Department at UCT before …

… between English and Afrikaner, and saw himself as South African rather than as an Englishman in South Africa, and became increasingly … in 1861. He settled at the Cape in 1862 and began work as a surveyor. He married Agnes Vintcent in 1874. From 1870 …

… Mshololo was born at Umzinyathi, Zululand. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects such as wooden spoons and meat platters. One of his special …

… he taught for some years in the Cape before qualifying as a lawyer in 1954. In the mid-1950s he served as national secretary of the  All African Convention  (AAC). …

… was born in Harare, Zimbabwe , or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932 [i] . … obtained a divorce in 1937 [v] . This impacted on Diana as during the early 1940’s she was fostered by another family … (RF) began to close down various informal schools, known as back yard schools [xi] .In 1966, upon seeing a nursery …

… interest he took it seriously. His first job was working as a property photographer for the Cape Times during which he … in 1989 covering the transition from apartheid to ANC rule as a photographer. In 1991 he started contributing to the … contributed to 30 combined exhibitions. He currently works as a freelance photographer and picture editor taking regular …

… Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, … was outstanding. He acquired the name, Comrade Mzala, as he was fond of addressing everyone as “mzala, mzala”.) In 1972, at the age of 15, he was …

… Thoko Phillip Mamagobo, popularly known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village … about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo), at a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He … died, leaving his mother to raise three sons on her own. As a result Mamagobo left school at the age of twelve, after …

… the growing fear and anxiety within the Indian community,as the racist party had promised to send the Indians back to … He matriculated from Sastri College in Durban in 1959. As a child, Ebrahim twice witnessed his father's arrest and … attempts to volunteer were refused by the organisers as he was under age, but he immediately joined the Natal …

… operations. Mkhize and other cadres remained in Zambia as combatants in waiting during the Wankie and Sipolilo … engagements at Wankie and Sipolilo. Mkhize served as the interpreter during the Morogoro Conference , in 1969. … conference the MK commander, Joe Modise , appointed him as a military attaché in Maputo, Mozambique. He held that …

… handicrafts.His political consciousness was shaped early, as his father took him to hear Nelson Mandela and other … in Geneva, Switzerland.Kumalo started his career in 1967 as a reporter at the Golden City Post . In 1969-1970, he was … the Johannesburg Sunday Times . In 1976, he started work as Marketing Executive Officer at Total Oil Company, but left …

… in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. … Institute for Industrial Education (IIE) employed Nxasana as an organiser. He was later made assistant principal for … was regularly in touch with underground ANC members such as Joseph Mdluli , Jacob Zuma , Harry Gwala and Griffiths …

… area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s though her work … to Zambia and finally settling in England where she worked as a teacher for 25 years. Soon after she left South Africa, … for children, however, gave her the greatest challenge as a writer. She has also written and published many academic …

… When Dadoo came to India in 1925, they met once again and as friends became interested in the nationalist movement in … he married Amina Tilley in 1933 and was elected in 1934 as Hon. Secretary of the Kholvad Madressa Anjiman Islamia, … He returned to South Africa in 1935 and was elected as a committee member of the Kholvad Madressa of the …

… where he devoured the art books in the school library. As a 16 year old pupil, he entered and won an art competition … the mainstream art world which regarded his work at best as colloquial, and antipathy from the apartheid government … of the Apartheid ideology, saw his profession as inappropriate for a ‘native’, Pemba persevered with his …

… dealt with Christian issues, but tackled political issues as well.In his final year of study, in 1976, he was refused … banning, which was lifted in 1982, after which he served as Secretary for Culture in AZAPO’s National Council. AZAPO … officially launched in February 1979. He went on to serve as Vice President and later President. AZAPO dissolved in the …

… and nationally until 1990. At one stage he served as a National Treasurer of the UDF.he remained as the treasurer for 28 years in the UDF. In 1986 he became … In 1988 he joined the Cheadle law firm in Johannesburg as an attorney. He was one of the managing partners until …

… Iron Cow Must Sweat), broke new ground in Afrikaans poetry as “powerful and startling ideas are presented without the … veiled autobiographical account which has been described as having a ‘dense style'. The moving prose of his … School of Humanities of at the University of Cape Town as a visiting professor in the departments of English and …

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which … enlisted the service of Harold Wolpe and Ismail Mahomed as their legal representatives and were acquitted after a six … that was set aside for him in Laudium. Jassat was arrested as a result of this incident and sent to the Marshall Square …

… September 1919. She went to Jeppe High School for Girls. As her mother could not afford university fees she accepted a … at the University of Witwatersrand labelled the book as subversive which resulted in many booksellers returning … Altman was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . As a result she was banned from her work on the factory floor …

… was detained with other prominent political leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu.  After his release from … However, during the same year he was enrolled and admitted as an attorney for the Republic of South Africa. Bam has … of the Transkei Bar from 1984 to 1985. Bam has also served as a director of various South African and international …

… Hermanus Gabriel Loots, also known as James Stuart, is most noted for his role in exposing … people referred to by the British colonial government as ‘bastards’, as a buffer between the Xhosas and the ‘white colonists’. …

… district in the western Transvaal. Like many others, as a young man he took up transport riding to and from the … very active part in the first  Anglo-Boer War (1881) , but as field cornet in the western Transvaal, he took over … in the Raadzaal called for war, De la Rey condemned it as premature, unsound and unnecessary. Angrily Kruger …

… in 1962, he served on the ANC National Secretariat as publicity secretary   and was responsible for the … arrests when the National Secretariat virtually served as the underground National Executive of the ANC. In 1960, he … including the infiltration of trained MK cadres.  As a member of the ANC Volunteer Corps, Dingake participated …

… Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura … when Monty's grandfather came from India to South Africa as a contract labourer. Monty matriculated at the Marine … of Edinburgh, Scotland, to study medicine. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1934 and then returned to South …

… an Anglican school where he completed Standard Four.  As he had no permit to continue his schooling in Humansdorp, … his arrival, he was told that he could not attend school as he did not have a permit to be in the area. His mother a … time at a student meeting, and detained for three weeks.  As he was small in stature, he gave his age as younger than …

… and instilled in him a concern for workers rights. As a teenager, he joined the South West African Peoples … end of the Vietnam War. He has said about this moment, “As soon as I learned about America the superpower, I also learned …

… in the Black Consciousness Movement  at the University. As Ndebele states, “My involvement in the Black Consciousness … that they could resonate with a self-confidence that was as local as it was universal.” In 1975 he received a Master of Arts in …

… Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin sister named Jennifer. She grew up in a sheltered …