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BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export business. The … training. On his return to Dar es Salaam…
BiographyMatome Maponya
… village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an existence on their small rural homestead. At school, where one of his…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His parents David and Elizabeth were farm labourers. He was … to this broad-based movement of…
ArchiveMrs Coretta Scott King: widow of slain US civil rights leader used by Archbishop Tutu and the Rev Allan Boesak in divisive black political feud
… widow of slain US civil rights leader used by Archbishop Tutu and the Rev Allan Boesak in divisive black political feud …
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
… He received critical acclaim after the publishing of his first novel Flowers and Shadows. His novels are usually fantastic stories with a strong … realism,…
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… in the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign , and on his 20th birthday was sent to Ixopo Prison where he was … freedom in South Africa. As a trade unionist…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was marked by a call for his release by China. This was publicized in the Communist … was made public by the United Nations Centre…
BiographyEve Hall
… other women for promoting the ANC (which was banned by the apartheid government at the time) by distributing leaflets … the first White women activists to be…
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
… Acting South African Revenue Services Commissioner) and his brother Dhaya ‘Joe” Pillay, had been drawn by Sunny Singh … to the purchases. In June 1977,…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
… Executive Committee. The CPSA helped Boshielo to pursue his studies through evening classes. He was one of the … Bakery Workers’ Union and broader liberation…
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… at M. L. Sultan Technical College in Durban. Nkosi began his writing career at the publication Ilanga lase Natal in … the staff of Drum magazine , which was…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… Apartheid Israel The Politics of an Analogy Edited by Jon … Soske and Sean Jacobs Foreword by Achille Mbembe In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an…
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
… detention in the 1956 Treason Trial , Khumalo moved to work in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and continued as an … from detention after a 180 days spell…
BiographyBhekisani Manyoni
… at the Katlehong Art Centre, Germiston. His work has been exhibited by the Helen de Leeuw, Goodman and …
BiographyJan Willem Jordaan
… and printing of the 1996 Images of Human Rights Portfolio. His work is represented in major SA public and private …
BiographyPeter Engblom
… participated in various group exhibitions in this country. His work is represented in public collections in SA. Currently he …
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… the challenges the organisation would face in terms of its work. Part of what happened was that with much of our … work entailed the transformation of South…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… as an accountant, he later changed to law and served his articles in Durban with J.N. Singh. In 1945 he joined the … a year and a half later, the government…
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
… KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. According to South Africa’s Apartheid race classification laws, he was “reclassified” as a Coloured person in 1957. His father…
BiographyNorman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
… (MK) veterans and became an MK guerrilla. At the time of his recruitment, Pietersen was 15-years-old and the youngest member of his MK unit led by former MK…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese … degree in sociology at the University of the…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
… was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After attending Fort Hare for some time, he left the…
Event17 anti-apartheid organisations are restricted in terms of Section 6 of the Public Safety Act
… of organisations or individuals. On the same day, 17 anti-apartheid organisations were restricted in terms of Section 6 … 17 anti-apartheid organisations are…
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal reform and social service. … school he worked briefly in a bank, then two…
BiographyLord Kitchener
… Best known for his famous recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the … Sharpe Grew: Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener…
BiographyEric Molobi
… 5, 1947. Molobi was imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he obtained a bachelor's … from the University of South Africa …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee Pillay. The Naiker family arrived in … on the social and sporting activities…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… African military leader after the Zulu king Shaka. In his autobiography, David Livingstone referred to him as the … Mzilikazi's boyhood was spent in the…
BiographyIsmail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert
… to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923 where they died … renamed him John Carlton. After…
BiographyTony Sithembiso Yengeni
… in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his matric at Fort Beaufort college in Cape Town. Yengeni … of government’s determined effort to…