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BiographyDorothy Masuka
… National Party with its policy of apartheid, to power in 1948, and Lumumba (speculating about who murdered the …
BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
… outside Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he …
BiographyFrederick Hutchinson Page
… with the Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts from 1948. He held his first solo exhibition in 1960, followed by …
BiographyRuth Mompati
… from Vryburg. She left Dithakwaneng after three years. In 1948, her mother was not very well so she decided to get a …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with a…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
… class and other sectors of the population on the Reef. In 1948, Cholo became active in trade unions and the African …
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
… after the National Party (NP) came to power in 1948, led to Barmania’s early retirement from national …
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… people, and the merger of separate cultural lives. In 1948 Malherbe wrote Spore van Vleiland (Tracks of the … Moeder en seun (Mother and son) in 1945, …
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… rapidly, and he was appointed a King’s Counsel (KC) in 1948 and Queen’s Counsel (QC) following the death of King … and became increasingly harsh and more…
BiographyIsaiah Stein
… during his teens, he moved to District Six, Cape Town, in 1948. There he became an amateur boxer, using the name …
BiographyElsa Joubert
… in Cradock she became editor of Die Huisgenoot (1946-1948) and thereafter a full-time writer. Since then Joubert …
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
… Council in 1942, and was re-elected in 1945 and 1948. A long time rival of the powerful John L Dube in Zulu …
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… he became the first principal of the recently founded (1948) Boitshoko Methodist Institution near Ventersdorp in the …
BiographyMotsamai Keyecwe Mpho
… he was offered work as a telegraph operator. However in 1948, he returned to South Africa where he found work at the …
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
… opened a medical practice in Warwick Avenue, Durban in 1948 and another in Malvern, Durban in the …
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
… King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the …
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
… Magwaza Alfred Maphalala was born on 6 April 1948 in Bergville, Ladysmith in Natal. He was an only son. …
BiographyBabette Brown
… before going to the University of the Witwatersrand in 1948, where she completed a BA in Education. In 1953, she …
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
… Natal. They had three children, Mabandla, Khangekile (1948-2011) and Nomadhlangala. Between 1906 and 1938, …
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
… is now Harare), at the 'Salisbury Bindura Mines'. In 1948 became a teacher in Mufulira, for the United Missions to …
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
… the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). In 1948 he decided to move to Kimberley, where he immediately …
”India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. Naicker On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
… Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948 …
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… Indian government document put to the United Nations in 1948 (Document 2 - Letter dated 12 July 1948 from the representative of India to the … the treatment…
BiographyKerr Alexander
… Kerr's leadership to a roll of 330 post-matriculants in 1948, the year of his retirement. Kerr's influence in the …
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… later president until his resignation in 1956. In October 1948 he was the AAC delegate at a meeting with the ANC where …
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
… of a retired army officer. They were married in September 1948. Seretse’s Uncle Tshekedi ordered him to come home so …
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… the ANC's election boycott decision of 1946 and of 1948. He appeared to be adopting a cautious wait-and-see …
BiographyFreda Levson
… South West Africa. When Scott left the United Nations in 1948, Levson put Scott’s paper together and published them as …