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… Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. He worked as an office machine technician while studying photography … of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez continued to work as a freelance photographer, working mainly in and around the …

… . Tyeku was born in 1904 and worked in his early life as a farm labourer in Bethal in the Eastern Transvaal. He … platform - a talent perhaps developed from his experience as a lay preacher in a Zionist church - he exemplified the …

… attended school at the Umgeni Mission Station and trained as a teacher at the Vryheid Training College.  He then went to Ndaleni Training College in Richmond, KZN to train as an art teacher. He taught art at a higher primary school …

… Holiday Camp, Natal. Mbatha left school in Standard II. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects such as wooden spoons, knives and headrests.He was inspired to …

… on filing. After a period in England, Davies was appointed as head of the Cape Archives Depot and stayed in this … archivist and the first female head of an archives depot, as until this point women had only been assistants. Davies …

… commanded a destroyer in the First World War and was held as a prisoner of war when his ship was sunk.   When she was … Some members felt that they should but women such as Eulalie Stott , Molly Peterson, Jessie Power and Robb felt … National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) member worked as their interpreter.  Following the Sharpeville massacre, …

… taught reading, writing, arithmetic, poetry and music; as well as sewing, weaving mats and baskets and dictation. When Resha … with her parents to attend the local school, Ramohlakoana, as it was considered better. In 1939, she went on to study …

… for being the best law graduate in 1957.  He was admitted as an attorney in South Africa in 1958.  From 1959 to 1961, … in Law at the University of Witwatersrand.  He practised as an advocate in South Africa between 1962 and 1963.  At the … He did all of this under cover while still holding his job as a university lecturer. He moved out of his home and was …

… taught reading, writing, arithmetic, poetry and music; as well as sewing, weaving mats and baskets and dictation. When Resha … with her parents to attend the local school, Ramohlakoana, as it was considered better. In 1939, she went on to study …

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the … exploited. Mhloti Black Theatre emerged because of and as a result of this muck. To fight and to begin the … order to help his mother keep her house. Thami got a job as an illustrator for SACHED Trust, where he worked for the …

… Nigel where he stayed. There was a post available in Nigel as well as Heidelberg, 15 kilometres from Nigel, but the then House … person joined the company and this person got the same cup as the other whites. As a result, he promptly resigned and …

… Hindustani, Creole (which he had learned in Mauritius as a child) and Zulu. He came to South Africa with his sister … in the Johannesburg prison. Gandhi hailed Thambi Naidoo as one of the most important figures in the history of the … gaol, he gives himself no rest. His one aim is to live so as to deserve the high title of passive resister as the term …

… up to Standard 8, but did not complete his schooling as a result of the school’s closure due to ongoing riots. He …  in September 1976, and left the country to be trained as an  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  “The Spear of the Nation” … Mozambique and on 11 June 1977 he returned to South Africa as a cadre, heavily armed, through Swaziland to assist with …

… Birmingham, using his term to implement policies regarded as being ahead of their time. He was appointed Colonial … housing and provision of public services. He became known as the ‘gas-and-water socialist’. He was elected to Parliament in 1876 as a Liberal Party MP, and was regarded as a Dissenter, …

… enable the various congresses to consult together, serving as its first secretary from 1957 to 1960.  Because of his … were detained with 154 others prior to what became known as the  Treason Trial . As a result, Levy was suspended as a teacher by the Transvaal …

… mentor. When she was fifteen years old, she transferred as a student to the Durban Indian Girls’ High School. Amina … Campaign  but she was not allowed to participate, as she was too young. She remained in Durban until the … injustice. The TIYC was also involved in tasks such as distributing leaflets and other political activities. At …

… unprecedented scope and sophistication. He started off as a book dealer in sought-after, rare items on all kinds of … Soon, however, he decided to venture into publishing as well and in 1946 his first book appeared: Vyjtig Gedigte … him. Nasionale Boekhandel increasingly perceived Balkema as a threat and it took all kinds of steps to prevent a …

… Until Njongwe began to apply his formidable talents as an organizer, the eastern Cape had not been a strong … During the  Defiance Campaign , when Njongwe acted as Cape provincial president in the absence of  Z. K. … 1952, with his prestige in the ANC at its peak, and as a professional man of independent means, Njongwe was a …

… a daughter, one of his sons passed on in 1996. He worked as a salesperson for a furniture shop and an ardent cameraman … They were released in January 1984 without being charged. As a result of his political involvement, the security police … into a trap set up by the apartheid security police posing as members of a foreign embassy offering funds at the Hendrik …

… that cattle not be allowed to drink from dipping tanks as it was suspected that there were chemical substances in … Union Mines Halt on the Mozambique border, where he worked as a ‘Boss Boy’ for an Agricultural Officer at a rate of … rather to an area where his activities could be monitored.As a result, he was located on Rembander Farm in the Sibasa …

… treated patients for free. During the 1970’s he recorded as much evidence of police brutality as possible by taking pictures of victims who came to him for … in Mamelodi, the F.F. Ribeiro School was named after them, as well as the street where they used to live. …

… school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a radio-cum-sound and lighting … in East London and later at the New African in Durban and as a member of the Afrapix collective. He has since … exhibitions at the Market Photo Gallery during the 1980s as well as the Zabalaza Festival in London, 1990; Culture and …

… design of stained glass, the illumination of manuscripts as well as in basic drawing and painting, he arrived in Grahamstown. … He later taught at the Cape Town School of Art and then as a Senior Lecturer at UCT's Michaelis School of Fine Art, …

… Jacobus Degenaar was born on 7 March 1926 in Ladysmith. As a young man he was sent to the Cape to study at the … hostility from mainstream Afrikaner organizations such as the Dutch Reformed Church and the Broederbond. However, … and his lecture course in the 1980s is still regarded as one of his most valuable philosophical contributions, …

… and became a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s … in the  South African Indian Congress . In 1946 he served as secretary of the  Passive Resistance  Council of the Natal …

… into the AAC in the 1940s. Elected AAC president in 1948 as a representative of young militants, he was attacked 10 years later as too conservative by radicals to his left in the AAC and …

… economy. Pervading this economy are the remnants of colonialism, namely the colour bar in all its manifestations … abolish the institutions of feudalism - this was described as the completion of the bourgeois democratic revolution, and … perhaps even the full franchise. The immediate limiting factor is, of course, the orientation of the ruling groups in …

… like to take away or curtail the electoral privileges of as many of the Afrikaner party as possible.’ The caucus accepted other points made by … During the Cabinet crisis, Merriman identified De Waal as having ‘displayed a tact and great ability, and …

… born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by  Nelson Mandela  and  … located on Market Street, activists would use his business as a drop-off or collection point. On the strength of a note … in 1964, he supplied a pair of shoes to a police officer as an inducement to facilitate the escape of Mosie Moolla, …