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… parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she grew up as a child. Her father was a lecturer in African languages at … was in the Mandela , Sisulu and Tutu area known in Soweto as the Triangle. As a child, she grew up playing with the Mandela and the …

… Basil Sipho Neo Bridgeman Bikitsha, known as “Doc” Bikitsha, was born on 19 November 1930 at the … went to study at Pius X11 University College, then known as Roma College, in Lesotho. He was expelled for allegedly …

… law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948. She joined the South African … Communist Party (SACP) in the early 1940s and was “listed” as a Communist by the apartheid regime in 1951, appearing on …

… author, wrote the first Afrikaans history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of … of a cultural and political organisation that became known as the Afrikaner Bond. However his close friendship with …

… at the Cape in 1854, Grey succeeded Sir George Cathcart as Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony. At this … The government promoted education because it was seen as a means of pacification and incorporation into colonial … the Mfengu, the Gqunukwebe, and refugees who saw it as the door to a new society. They accepted education …

… While at University, she ran the student printing press as a member of the Student Representative Council. In 1982, … co-ordinating the NUSAS Wages Commission. She also served as a voluntary worker for the General Workers Union and … 1981 Wilson Rowntree strike. In 1980, she began working as a volunteer literacy teacher for the Adult Learning …

… new residential areas, new parallel institutions such as schools, universities and administrative bodies, and … African Students Organisation (SASO) , which was created as a Black alternative to the liberal National Union of South … (NUSAS) . It is necessary to disambiguate this move, as Biko is frequently misunderstood to have been …

… to educate White students on resistance to Apartheid. As a result of his political activities, the Apartheid … Aid Society, but was forced out of union organisation as a result of ideological and strategic differences between … between August and December 1975, finally being charged as the first accused in the Nusas trial, which ran for a …

… Oliver Tambo in the 1956 Treason Trial ), while working as a secretary for the Friends of the Soviet Union in the … long train journeys they took together across the country as they spread the word of Karl Marx . They married on 4 … 1964, without any warning, the couple (who were listed as communists after Hymie Barsel’s banning in 1950) was …

… Detachment of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) . Proud of his role as a fighter for freedom, Molokoane was scrupulously faithful … which he believed prepared him for any contingency. As a commander he was exceptional, taking particular care … a napalm bomb, incinerating the comrades instantly. As a soldier in MK, “Buda” as his closest friends …

… career in the 1940s. Starting at age 17 he worked as a darkroom assistant in his home city for several years. … de Informacao de Mozambique and Noticias. He worked as director of the Sunday newspaper Domingo from 1981 to … Sweden, Switzerland, Mali, South Africa and Zimbabwe as well as Mozambique. At age 85, Rangel died in his sleep at …

… Blue notes. He quickly became an asset to his new group as he finally showcased his skills as a composer.  He later left the Brotherhood of Breath to … be his last band, Zila. Pukwana may have begun his career as a pianist, but he became known for his skills as a …

… allow her mother to wait for an ambulance inside her home, as she was Black. She was a trained nurse before she became … Advancement of South Africa. She was concurrently elected as president of the Transvaal region of the world-affiliated … of Southern Africa (CI) in 1968 and left her career as a nurse in 1973 to become a staff member of the institute, …

… other political leaders soon to be released from prison. As the political scene in the country gradually changed, so … he suddenly began to suffer from a mysterious illness. As his illness persisted and doctors failed to come up with a … seemed to be experiencing writer’s block, saw the call as an opportunity for him to continue to nurture his …

… they both began work in a clothing factory. Johanna worked as a machinist.   At this time the white workers were busy … on workers to demand a living wage and freedom- just as people had done with the Great Trek and with the Anglo … Union. In 1933 Johanna spent a month in the Soviet Union as a trade union delegate, and in 1934 became a full time …

… James Ford was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of … the exhibition. In a brief interview he expressed himself as delighted with the number and excellence of the works on … by the press, he added, has not been half so enthusiastic as it should have been. (undocumented Press clipping, Dec. …

… the problems facing South African black communities such as poverty, violence and political injustice and the anger … represented Port Elizabeth. She was critical of this body as it focused only on white issues.Her father was an … PE. Blackburn rejoined the Black Sash, which she had left as a result of its inactivity, to campaign for justice and …

… called "the bourgeois outlook on art", which he described as "nice, clean and pleasant", as well as "universal", he declared that no "bourgeois" people such …

… Theophilus Doctorson  Khumalo also known as “16 Valve” was born in Soweto, Johannesburg on 26 June … career, he was mentored by his father. His first team as a professional player was with Swallows Reserves in 1984. …

… on to study at Adams College in Natal, where he qualified as a teacher in 1940. He completed his matric, studying by correspondence while he held down two jobs as a teacher and short-hand typist at Ezenzeleni Institute … from teaching. Mphahlele returned briefly to Ezenzeleni as a secretary. In 1954 he left on his to teach at Basutoland …

… Cape Province ), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became fascinated and involved in the … a newly formed township in the Ciskei . She describes it as the time in which she started taking politics incredibly … resolved not to wait for significant conflicts to arise, as the case had been with the Dunlop Play, but to maintain an …

… mine accident. Having to fend for herself and the children as a waitress, Jessy was just able to retain her baby … an early age and gained a deep appreciation of oppression, as a result of which he became a great teacher contributing … later established. At the age of 13, Hodgson started work as a butcher’s apprentice. He became a professional “runner” …

… the Joseph family moved to Cape Town where he worked as a gravedigger in the Observatory cemetery. The family was only in Cape Town for a short while, as Henry Joseph soon died and the family had to move back to Paarl. Obligated to assist her mother as the sole breadwinner, Abrahams dropped out of school at …

… instructed him to leave for Mozambique. After two years as a radio journalist with Radio Freedom in Dar es Salaam, … from Lesotho on a secret mission. He recalls this as his least successful undertaking.  A security breach … prisoners. His first job, after leaving Robben Island, was as Projects' Co-ordinator for the National Association of …

… time Potgieter explored the surrounding area and travelled as far as one days riding to Zimbabwe. He returned to the Vaal River … At a Voortrekker meeting on 2 December 1836 he was elected as the Chief Commandant. By 1837 Mzilikazi and his Matabele …

… He returned to the Cape in 1848 after having been ordained as a Minister as The Hague. In Cape Town Governor, Sir Harry Smith sent … Wellington the Institute for the training of missionaries, as well as the Huguenot Seminary for girls, which placed much …

… Students (NUSAS) . In 1963 he was nominated and elected as president of NUSAS serving one term. During this period he … returning to the country. Thus, he found himself in limbo as he was neither a South African nor a British citizen. He … returning to South Africa. After his degree, he worked as a teacher at Sevenoaks School and then at Matthew …

… school at Adams College in Durban where he trained as a teacher before teaching in Mzinyathi in the Inanda area. … politics and devoted his time to organizing the people as an activist of the  African National Congress  (ANC). He … oppressed masses of South Africa.” After his appointment as Head of the ANC mission to the United Nations (UN) in …

… the same year he assisted in collecting ‘freedom demands’ as part of the African National Congress  (ANC)’s process of … group which founded uMkhonto weSizwe  (MK). He was elected as a member of the command structure of MK’s Natal … committee of the SACP. In the same year he began serving as the ANC’s Chief Representative in Tanzania, a position he …

… met and formed relationships with future leaders such as Nelson Mandela , and writers like Nadine Gordimer. On his … and published The New Europeans . In 1968 he began working as an associate professor at the University of Vincennes in … State: The History of ITT and rejoined The Observer as an American correspondent until 1974. Sampson went on to …