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… Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape Colony in the Great Trek. He was … Biography, volume 6,  available here |Giliomee, Hermann; The Afrikaners: Biography of a People; Tafelberg Publishers, …

… a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he expressed the political needs and aspirations of all those victimised … And he had to face that choice and suffer from it for the future birth of the blackman’s power to liberate himself. He …

… House, Highgate, London. Vella Pillay was born on the 8th of October 1923, Johannesburg. My family, father, … owned by my father but that it was heavily mortgaged to the banks. My elder brother at the time was living in  Durban  (with my uncle) where he went …

… on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina Swart (nee Robberts). During the South African War (1899-1902) Swart's father was captured and the young boy with his mother and the other children on their …

… King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime Minister, was born on 27 August 1928 in the Mahlabathini District, KwaZulu. His mother was the daughter of King Dinizulu and granddaughter of  King … man of immense political talent and contradictions , from The Conversation , 9 September 2023 [online] Available at …

… Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what … ca. 1790 near Mkuze, Zululand (now part of South Africa). The son of Matshobana whom many had considered to be the …

… Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor (umphakathi) to the Paramount Chief, Sandile Nggika. The decade during which …

… in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the country's small but influential Gujarati Vhora Muslim … His grandparents immigrated to South Africa from India in the first decade following the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 . His …

… Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. …

… Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu  in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March 1892, …

… in 1936 in Durban.  He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when he was still young, and he was … work to support his mother and two sisters. Naidoo was the first Black person to present a radio broadcast on the …

… He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many independent … brought together in a Zulu kingdom which survived not only the death of its founder but later military defeat and … P. (undated). South Africa Encyclopaedia: Prehistory to the year 2000, unpublished papers with SA History Online.| …

… He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa. He also discovered for Europe the south-east trade winds and the westerlies to the west and …

… Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 … means ‘bright sun’. Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha became the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda, in the late 1840s. She … Hughes, H, (2011), First president: the life of John Dube, founding president of the ANC, …

… grew up in Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High … School, where he matriculated in 1997. He graduated from the University of South Africa, with a BA degree in Psychology, the University of the Witwatersrand, with a Masters in Public …

… born in 1929.  His father a cinematograph operator became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 years.  He was in one of the White worker-commando's during the 1922 Rand Revolt  as a …

… childhood or early career. Instead, Dingane enters the record when on the 22 of September 1828 he, with the assistance of his half-brother Mhlangana and servant …

… in 1925 in lngwavuma, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), the only son in the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and …   Mdluli earned his a living as a hawker. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, the year of the … , (David Phillip Publishers), pp.39-40|SAHO,  XIII ”“The Courts , [online] Available at www.sahistory.org.za …

… beginnings became a successful farmer. Ramgobin attended the Inanda Government Aided Indian School. In 1949 he attended the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) run high schools in Greyville, Durban. He enrolled at the University of Natal (now the University of … – A struggle stalwart who made enormous sacrifices for the creation of a non-racial and democratic South Africa . …

… in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the  Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC) from its inception. He served as the Joint Secretary of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and the Joint Secretary … (date unknown) Speaking Together. COP bulletin Campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter, …

… Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, … worker married in 1946. Motlanthe (also known as Mkhuluwa, the elder one) has two younger brothers, Tlatlane Ernest and … a Councillor in Apex. He was instrumental in founding the township of Daveyton in 1955 where he ran a funeral …

… Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, … Quaker. Shepstone's father was entered as a stonemason on the 1820 settler's list. Their first home was a rough shelter …

… Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, … Quaker. Shepstone's father was entered as a stonemason on the 1820 settler's list. Their first home was a rough shelter …

… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was born in Galeshewe Township near Kimberley and matriculated at the local St Boniface High School in 1970. She studied mostly …

… in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and entertainment industry in South Africa and globally. His involvement in the arts industry began as an usher at the Brook Theatre in 1955, where he worked for five years, … Presentation Of National Orders , Mannie Manim , from The Presidency, [online] Available at …

… 1639 to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens. The couple were en route to Mauritius when Maria gave birth to Simon aboard the ship le Cappel. Van der Stel’s father duly became the first Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company …

… began his political career at a young age. He joined the Masupatsela (Trailblazers), a movement of the African National Congress  (ANC) at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task … (6 April 2016).| Concourt: Zuma must pay back the money. 2016. [Online]. Available:  …

… September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region. After attending a Catholic … Assini, Nkrumah went on to train and work as a teacher at the Government Training School (Achimota School) located in … Nkrumah subsequently earned a teacher's certificate at the Prince of Wales College in 1930. During this period …

… on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek …