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BiographyOliver Kgadime Matsepe
… Matsepe came from a non-Christian family, he received his education at mission schools. From 1942 to 1949 he received his primary school education at…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… he set up a studio in London after the First World War. His career in England was punctuated by return visits to … equivalents, in a sense, of the gypsies of…
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency, Festus Mogae, Cape Town, 25 October 2005
… in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency, Festus Mogae, Cape Town, 25 October 2005 …
Statement of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament on the Release of Hon Jacob Zuma from his Responsibilities as Deputy President: National Assembly, 14 June 2005.
… of Parliament on the Release of Hon Jacob Zuma from his Responsibilities as Deputy President: National Assembly, …
Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Constantinos Stephanopoulos at the Presidential Palace, Athens, Greece, 24 February 2005.
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency, the President of the Hellenic Republic, …
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… After qualifying as a medical doctor in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a … He was the second Black doctor to do so…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
… Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. … Cator Manor and subsequent forced…
Statement by Reverend Gabriel Seteloane at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979
… very close to the man we are commemorating, we must take his word that we in South Africa, the black indigenous people … He is right. Mahatma Gandhi thought…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… the young Bizos was at school in Kalamata, which was near his home town, Vasilitsi, where his father was a prominent citizen, having been the mayor at ……
BiographyJan Celliers
… farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an English … school. In 1874 the family moved to…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… fought as a Cape rebel in the Second Boer War . His father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the then South … Defence Force and also the head of the Commando…
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
… laws, he was “reclassified” as a Coloured person in 1957. His father, an accountant born in India, and his mother were classified as Malay. As a teenager,…
BiographyNorman Catherine
… at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibitionin 1969. This exhibition consisted … assortment of found objects. The following…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
… January 1911 to six weeks in prison. He requested to join his father in the first batch of Satyagrahis from Phoenix, … authorities. General Lukin was present…
BiographyRussel Botman
… Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His mother had supported his family by working as a typist for the “coloured” … Orange Free State …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, where he spent his childhood. [1] In an interview with Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Mpofu said he and his family lived in abject…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
… 1935 in Sophiatown , Johannesburg. He often accompanied his father, a house painter to work. During this time, the … years 1958 to 1960, Skotnes arranged for…
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During this … J G Strijdom …
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… government. At the age of 17, Cassiem together with his teacher, Sadiq Isaacs, was arrested. Isaacs was … by the security police and denied access to a…
BiographySimon Nkabinde
… 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was forced … to leave school because he could not…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… only child of Miriam and Ezekiel Modise. Modise completed his Junior Certificate at the Fred Clark Memorial School in … He had to leave school in order to…
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
… Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter Scott and Jacob van…
BiographyBheki Myeni
… Myeni's parents died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in … sticks and making clay models when he…
BiographyMarthinus Hattingh
… with photography since an early age he decided to make it his career and decided to study photography. He completed his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
… went to the University College of Zululand, completing his BA in History and Anthropology in 1965. In 1967 he obtained his University Education Diploma…
BiographyBilly Modise
… an Anglican scholarship which enabled him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial discrimination … imposed by apartheid which forced…
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
… Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he grew up near Vereeniging. His father was a carpenter and preacher and his mother a counselor and midwife who was also gifted…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
… the banishment order. The official reasons provided for his banishment were that, fromSeptember 1957, Mnyaunduwas the … [Bantu Affairs Department] officials…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
… a Black Theatre group in soweto and he is widely known for his poetry and prose. He was the founding member and … Literature Institute (MDALI) that was based…