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… a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both preceded him as kings of the Zulu. He was born in Babanango, Zululand. Mpande was viewed as a weak man in comparison to his contemporaries. Dingane … and he asked the Voortrekkers to give him military support as he moved back into Zululand to fight Dingane. Mpande was …

… then attended school. His father worked in Johannesburg as did his mother who sold home-brewed alcohol to supplement … section 6 of the Terrorism Act. In 1980 Mufamadi worked as a private teacher at Lamula Secondary School, Soweto, … In 1981 he left the teaching profession to work as a messenger for a firm of attorneys and subsequently …

… England but  immigrated to South Africa where he worked as a postmaster in Cape Town. His mother, Minnie, was also a … The Guardian on the streets. In 1944 Horvitch qualified as an architect from the University of Cape Town. He made his mark as an architect, providing London, in particular, with …

… she joined The Star newspaper in 1979, where she worked as a staff photographer. In 1983 she became staff … have been published internationally in publications such as Der Spiegel (Germany), Marie Claire (UK, Germany, Poland, … , Mother Jones , The Economist , New Internationalist , as well as in numerous local specialist and general …

… 22, he was sent to South Africa to represent the company as a buyer in Kimberley. On 19 June 1906 he married Mary Lina … to the stoning of his house during 1916 riots. In 1924, as member of the South African Party under General  Jan Smuts … from politics in 1938. Some historians regard Oppenheimer as somewhat progressive, pointing out that he was the first …

… The juxtaposition of associations, history, femininity, as well as the traces and the repositioning of the past into the now through collective memory are what appear as you submerge into the worlds Penny Siopis creates. …

… involved in the South African Communist Party (SACP) and as a result, her parents did not allow her to get too close … roles, coupled with her experiences of being abused as a child, planted the first seeds of an awareness of … aware of the true extent of the racism in the country as she got to know some Black students and started to move …

…                              In 1958, de Vlieg was trained as a nurse at Greys Hospital in  Pietermaritzburg . After … not until 1982 that she joined the Johannesburg Black Sash as a volunteer and she was soon put onto their regional … I will come to work for Afrapix, but I'm not working as a secretary, I want to be a photographer." She had a …

… and legal assistance to detainees under apartheid, as well as to monitor and publicise state repression. …

… with the LP was possibly on the ANC’s instructions as the organisation’s responsibilities were later issued to him. In 1975 he joined Tongaat Hulett (a sugar company) as a personnel officer and went to live in Hambanathi, more … see appalling conditions in the township. While serving as mayor, Mkhize oversaw the improvement of roads and moved a …

… he had first met at Adams College) to prominence, first as a Natal leader and then as president-general of the ANC. Though often subject to … recognised and respected by African intellectuals as a writer and analyst of unusual talent. A strong aversion …

… reflects: “Those days you had to accept what they said as there was no other way you could go because it was the law … from those around him. Mr Naki was already a hero, as a black man of scant education who had trained himself to … their regrets at being caught up in a misapprehension, as surgeons at Groote Schuur, the hospital where the …

… and a Midwifery Certificate in 1944. She went on to work as a nurse in several hospitals, during which time she … with her two young daughters, she left for Botswana as a refugee.   In 1971 she moved to Lusaka, Zambia , where … in international solidarity and women’s gatherings such as the United Nations Women’s Conference in Mexico in 1975 …

… printing of the paper. Lee-Warden was the obvious choice, as he was married to Ike Horovitch’s sister, and had … to represent them in Parliament in 1954.  He then served as Native Representative until 1960. (Native Representatives … (CoD). However, the government could not remove him as Lee-Warden had not been listed as a Communist. In …

… in horse races at a Manzana track. His other pursuits as a boy included stick fighting and hunting small game and … students at the institution, Xuma was asked to serve as a monitor for one of the campus dormitories. Eventually the Clarkebury administrators appointed Xuma as the official timekeeper of the school, requiring the …

… , Barney William Ngakane moved to Springs, where he served as chairman of a Liberal Party branch in the early 1960s. In December 1960 he acted as chairman at the consultative conference of African leaders …

… eight cuts. Modiba came to Johannesburg in 1926 and worked as a domestic servant and later in textile and garment factories. In June 1955, he served as an African National Congress (ANC) delegate at the …

… Toulon (Provence) France, who arrived at the Cape in 1704 as refugees fleeing religious persecution in France along … grandfather, Etienne Terre'Blanche, fought as a Cape rebel in the  Second Boer War .  His father was … and after matriculating served nearly five years as a policeman, some of that time in the Special Guard Unit …

… – so much so that his own children never met them. As a boy, Uys read voraciously. He had worked his way through … his becoming a vegetarian and possibly a journalist, first as a reporter on the now defunct Rand Daily Mail in 1941, then as associate editor of the magazine Libertas. He returned …

… McKenzie moved to Johannesburg where he worked at Phillips as a television technician. A work colleague, who was … “Mkhize”. He was recruited by Omar Badsha in December 1981 as a member of the Afrapix Photgraphic Collective . In … of Wentworth, south of Durban —a place he had grown up as a young man, after first living in central Durban and then …

… He became politically active in the mid-1920s and emerged as the leading figure in 1935 when orthodox Hindus and … Kajee was in some ways ruthless in his business dealings, as well as in politics. After the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian …

… Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the  Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC) from its inception. He served as the Joint Secretary of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress … of the Transvaal Action Committee in 1955. He also served as the Secretary of the Consultative Committee of the …

… of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1946 and began his career the … where there where no african doctors. He was elected as treasurer for the branch. He also married Mary-Anne … also prevented from leaving Kimberley until August 1953 as part of his bail conditions.At the end of 1953 Letele was …

… her mother, Anna, was from Russia. Zelic Rubin worked as a tailor and, unusually for the time, employed Coloured and Africans along with Whites as apprentices in his workshop in the backyard of the family … Party (SACP) in Cape Town. In 1946 he was elected as the Native Representative to the Cape Provincial Council. …

… participation into politics through innovative acts such as, their “monkey jives” dance shows at various venues, such as, Eyethu in Mofolo, Soweto, Durban, etc. His cousin Dr … Ramusi was also aligned to other musical structures such as the Beaters— a musical band led by Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, …

… of law, he went to Johannesburg about 1941 and took a job as organising secretary for the African Bakers and … strikes. During the 1940s he served with  Gana Makabeni  as an official of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade … Federation of Free African Trade Unions of South Africa as an all-African non-Communist union organisation, …

… compulsory one-year call-up in the South African Air Force as a medical orderly. Thereafter he studied civil engineering … degree in photography. At this time he worked part-time as a freelance photographer in Cape Town. For his Masters … different population groups across South Africa. Used here as part of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and …

… I live to tell stories. That's what I have been doing as a journalist and writer," says Kamaldien of his … are varied, but mostly concentrated on social documentary as this allows him to see and capture life in this world … exhibition is a body of work that will continue to grow as time passes. …

… a Ph.D. in 1917. His doctoral dissertation, published as  The Education of the South African Native (1917), was … to promote the concept of industrial education in Africa as a member of the Phelps-Stokes Commissions on education in … by Jan Smuts from 1920 to 1929 before returning to Natal as the provincial superintendent of education in 1930. …

… at him and not by a bullet 'ricocheting off the ground' as police claimed. Another student, Hastings Ndlovu , is … were killed during the protests. June 16 has been observed as a public holiday in South Africa called ‘Youth Day’ since … to shoot." – Sam Nzima *Note: Some sources spell Pieterson as ‘Peterson’. …