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BiographyFreda Levson
… in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in …
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
… He passed away on the 18th of April in 1905, at the age of 32. Imvo ZabaNtsundu , an IsiXhosa newspaper reported …
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
… Sexwale became interested in politics at an early age. While at high school he became involved with the African …
BiographyRobert John McBride
… with his mother's pistol. Politicised from an early age, first under the influence of his embittered father and …
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
… norms when she started working at the Fosa in 1945 at the age of 19. She then went on to do a nurse aide training …
BiographySamora Machel
… man's wealth is built." Rebellion against Portugal was not new to Samora Machel. His grandparents and great-grandparents … that we realized that it was…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… as an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre. Mahlangu was part of a new generation of MK recruits dubbed the June 16 Detachment, … first democratic elections of 1994…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
… research and planted plantations in order to develop new ways to prevent erosion. He also experimented with new grass types, researched fruit, researched…
BiographyCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes
… at the International Convention of Plastic Arts at UNESCO, New York. He was one of the founder members of the Amadlozi … Sao Paulo, Brazil (Biennale). 1962:…
BiographyJodi Bieber
… Page in The Society of Publications Designers Awards in New York 2001 for her work on the Ebola Crisis in Uganda for The New York Times Magazine. Bieber was…
BiographyGreg Marinovich
… begun to work regularly for the AP, Newsweek, Time , the New York Times, as well as local magazines and newspapers. He … He returned to South Africa to…
BiographyJohn Liebenberg
… to Namibia and in 1985 was appointed photographer for a new weekly, ‘The Namibian’. Following independence, he and … exhibitions include Rise and Fall of…
BiographyMoses Kottler
… a good name as a sculptor. Kottler was a member of the New Group, a prestigious artists’ group founded in 1938 by … difficulty and to hold exhibitions all…
BiographyEduardo Mondlane
… a History and Sociology Professor at Syracuse University, New York. As the president of FRELIMO, he successfully … University in South Africa until forced to…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… aware of poverty, inequality and injustice at a young age, eventually becoming an active anti-apartheid activist in … to help shape the country’s transition…
BiographySarah Gertrude Holland
Sarah Gertrude Mary Christina Holland was born on 11 April 1952, in Durban. On 9 February 2010, Holland’s house was destroyed by a fire which claimed the lives…
BiographyGideon Mendel
… Drowning World ‘Picture Windows’ installation. ICP, New York. Drowning World, Tiwani … Bending the Frame, NYU Tisch School of…
BiographyPhikinkani Zulu
… betterment and the community was obligated to move to a new area. However, “so intense was the resistance in Zululand … and the banishment orders could not…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… power over the affairs of their country, on the basis of a new and fully democratic fundamental law or constitution … belong to all who live in it, and would…
BiographyD Fuyani
… of the African National Congress , and prominent in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. …
BiographySimon Nkabinde
… In 1975, Gallo Record Company decided to recruit five new women to create ‘Mahotella B’, a lesser group which … Mahotella Queens. Nkabinde on the hand,…
BiographyJim Lithako
… head of the Native Commission. In 1957, he was served a new banishment order, because being free to move around in … ‘clandestine visits to Witzieshoek…
Jeannette Ndhlovu
… Mission, she managed to obtain a MA degree from the New York University in Counselling Psychology. She addressed … and children; it is no wonder that she led…
BiographyPambani Jeremiah Mzimba
… the congregation members of Lovedale followed him into the new church. After Reverend Mzimba’s death in 1911, his son … who played an instrumental role in…
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
… programme. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from …
BiographyGraeme Williams
… African parodies. Williams is a regular contributor to The New York Times , The Telegraph and Leadership Magazine . He … opening exhibition. 2009 - The Edge…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
… isolation and subsequently South African rugby team hosted New Zealand and Australia in a test match. The normalisation … and two lose of three games to the…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… or "dumb pass" - required all African people over the age of 16 to carry documentation that controlled every aspect … detained thousands without trial, and…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, Rao, New Delhi, 21 January 1983
… of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, Rao, New Delhi, 21 January 1983 …
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… person who first came to South Africa from India at the age of five with his stepmother. Her mother, Amina, was also … of Muslim women). Mayat, who started…