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… ' and a member of the South African Congress of Democrats, as well as a member of the  Communist Party of South Africa . He was …

… him “Lucky”. She was the only breadwinner in the family as she had separated from her husband before Lucky’s birth … of her mother. She earned such meagre wages in her job as domestic worker that she was barely able to send money …

… Ma Baloi as she was fondly addressed, was born on 8 August 1936. She … Congress (ANC) at the former Dunn Branch, now known as Forant Mathebula Branch. …

… Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a domestic worker in Seshego Township. He went to … police stations. At the age of 14 Malema was elected as both chairperson of the  African National Congress Youth …  (COSAS) for the Limpopo province. In 2001, he was elected as the national president of COSAS.  Malema was elected as …

… He regarded the headmaster, also an Anglican priest, as a man of faith, but also someone he learned to fear.  … and the efforts by various priests to use religion as a tool to confront these actions. By 1929, he had returned … Sussex. In 1930, he completed his studies and was ordained as a priest. In 1932, after a stint in a rural parish in …

… schooling was in nearby Rajkot, where his father served as the adviser or prime minister to the local ruler. India … to Kasturba [or Kasturbai], who was of the same age as himself. She bore him four sons. In September 1888 Gandhi … Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal  - KZN) in 1893 to serve as legal counsel to a merchant Dada Abdulla. In June, Dada …

… because it marks the end of over three hundred years of colonialism, segregation and white minority rule and the … Africa’s non-racial elections President Mandela said; “As dawn ushered in this day, the 27th of April 1995, few of us could suppress the welling of emotion, as we were reminded of the terrible past from which we come …

… their background they might be subject to pressure again.  As a result, her mother tried to make her promise not to do … years. Gray’s father died when she was eleven years old. As a child, Gray became aware of the difference in the … find part-time work so that she could continue to study. As a result, she did not have very much time to do more than …

… His father, Thaniachallam Kistnasamy Naicker, worked as a builder at the local Huletts Sugar Mill and his mother, … conditions led to his involvement in political activism as a student. On 6 September 1966, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd , the … and unceremoniously handed over to them. He was targeted as a potential suspect following the “clapping incident” …

… the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the discrimination practiced by … Suppression of Communism Act. Africans were not recognized as workers, nor were their trade unions.  Thus, they had no … South Africa. Marriage in South Africa was impossible as Thomas was a member of the Coloured community and under …

… potatoes, pumpkins, peas, cabbages, and chillies, as well as keeping some livestock. Every Saturday the girls would go …

… Admiralty. He came to South Africa to succeed Lord Milner as High Commissioner in South Africa, and Governor of the … more approachable than his haughty predecessor, and also, as a keen farmer, he was bound to be more popular than Milner …

… Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by … 50. After teaching for many years, he went into business as a butcher in Kimberley. An executive member of both the …

… training at Ceza Hospital in Zululand, she was engaged as an interpreter for Peder and Ulla Gowenius, Swedish … Africa to start a weaving workshop. She also assisted them as an unqualified occupational therapist and in her leisure … she received a scholarship to train in Sweden for a year as a teacher weaver. On her return to Rorke's Drift she …

… Wadee moved to Nelspruit in the late 1970s, practicing as a GP and serving as a forensic pathologist at the local hospital. When the … were in constant contact with the UDF leaders, and acted as their points men in Nelspruit. After 1994, Wadee served on …

… brought together by their resentment of unjust laws such as the pass law, spoke with one voice that day as they marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956. The … voices were heard. Gazo led the march from Payneville and as they approached town, soldiers and police started shooting …

… a vibrant multi-racial community. Themba then worked as a reporter and an editor at Drum magazine , after winning … other aspiring black journalists, who came to be known as the “Drum Boys”. These included Lewis Nkosi, Nat Nakasa , … townships.” Themba’s Sophiatown dwelling, known as “The House of Truth”, received many visitors looking for …

… born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. He actively … earlier anti colonial struggles. Ngoyi was later elected as president of the Eastern Cape regional executive of the …

… at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. As a newly qualified dentist Blaaiberg settled in Cape Town … Blaaiberg joined the South African Army Medical Corps and as a captain, led a dental unit in Abyssinia and Italy. In … performed by Professor Chris Barnard and a team of 30. As with the first human heart transplant in the same …

… and Aysha and three brothers, Ismail, Mohammed and Haroon. As there were no primary schools in the area, the young Timol … a shop. Timol was forced to go to school in Standerton, as there was no school in Balfour. He completed his high … and his mother had to do sewing to bring in extra income. As a child, Timol suffered from asthma. Dr Yusuf Dadoo , …

… the Wilberforce Native Teacher’s College. He then worked as a teacher at Mooki Memorial College in Orlando … was dismissed in 1953 for “rebelliousness.” He also worked as a building site clerk. He married, and settled in Jabavu, … National Congress (ANC) in Soweto. Noted for his ability as a union organiser, he became secretary of the non-racial, …

… an actress, served the commerce of theatre in this country as well as its art to a degree not before experienced. Her … A great many South Africans who came under her influence as apprentices and neophytes found her unstoppable. She …

… Omar Badsha was born in Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal) in June 1945. He grew up in a working-class … award was the beginning of Badsha's long career working as an artist, photographer, and an influential voice in the … historic 1973 Durban workers' strike, he stopped working as an artist and worked closely with trade unionists Harriet …

… stature were sown at the time of his greatest triumph as a player. The noose of censure against apartheid in sport … of malevolence by political malcontents. Through his work as a doctor at the teeming Baragwanath Hospital on the … access to superb sporting facilities at institutions such as King Edward VII School, where he had been a prodigy. The …

… He then returned to Bostwana where he was offered work as a telegraph operator. However in 1948, he returned to … where he found work at the Crown Mines in Johannesburg as secretary of Reverend Anderson, a welfare officer at the … and charged with treason in the 1956 Treason Trial . As the state failed to prove its case, he was released …

… and Harold became friends and learned from each other, as they listened to music and played instruments together. … he published a series of drawings titles ‘Sharpeville’, as a comment on the Sharpeville incident of the previous … In Israel, Rubin stopped playing music and began work as an artist and architect. He worked as a designer at Arieh …

… and Economic History. Between 1941 and 1944, Suzman worked as a statistician for the War Supplies Board. In 1944, she … virtually wiped out, and only Helen retained her seat. As the sole voice of South Africa’s oppressed, Suzman became … white people. She found herself even more of an outsider, as she was an English-speaking Jewish woman in a parliament …

… against Black academic staff, she entered private practice as a specialist pathologist. However, in 1978 she was invited … the Department of Anatomical Pathology and was appointed as the first women Professor and Head of the Department. She … frequently boycotted classes over various grievances, such as the discriminatory practices in medicine. Also, the …

… royal family over the choice of regency. He was installed as the eighth Monarch of the Zulus at a traditional ceremony … accused Zwelithini of meddling in party politics. As a result, the KwaZulu government demanded that the King … and rejected the King's branding of the KwaZulu government as the puppet of the South African government. He was further …

… University of KwaZulu-Natal). Following this, she worked as a teacher. She was married to Harold Strachan , who was … in detention for a year, mostly in solitary confinement. As the police hammered on the door of Jean Middleton's flat … mostly in solitary confinement, Middleton was named as one of 14 defendants, all white people, in a trial …