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… Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth,  Shaka Zulu  was wielding a very powerful command of the Zulu nation. Cetshwayo’s father,  Mpande , was Shaka … Binns, C.T. (1963). The Last Zulu King: The Life and Death of Cetshwayo, London: …

… photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, he was born on 29 November 1930 in the small mining town of Randfontein, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng). David was the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom …

… Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family which was active in the Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 … with General Smuts and stayed almost two months in the same house. Identifying himself with the indentured Indian labourers, Gandhiji ate only once a …

… were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the Mamabolo tribe who, through early contact with … education when he ran away from school in 1901 and joined the British troops stationed in Pietersburg during the  South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2) . After the …

… G. (1999) “Solomon Kerzner” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. Pp275-278.  South africa, 1979. Spread across the map like fragments of buckshot, two hours by car from …

… after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali Bacher, the young medical doctor and Transvaal batsman - shrewd, … to a 4-0 whitewash test series victory over Australia in the summer of 1969-1970. They were not to know it at the …

… was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs', … Sachs made up his own birthdate because, according to him, the correct date was not known. Until the age of three Sachs …

… Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange Institute, founded by John …

… spent three years studying abroad. She studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography after which she apprenticed in the studios of Yevonde, a Berkley Square society photographer … photographer. Between1935 and 1936 Constance studied at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich. She …

… was born on 27 November 1798 near  Graaff-Reinet  in the Cape Colony. He was educated by travelling teachers and … By 1837 he still lived in Graaff Reinet and owned farms in the district. He became interested in the planning of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary …

… Secondary School in Johannesburg. (This was probably the Anglican school situated in Rosettenville, and not the school of the same name at Crown Mines.) Nokwe then proceeded to the …

… John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa in 1910. … TRH Davenport, The Afrikaner Bond: The history of a South African Political Party, 1880-1911. …

… a union organiser for sugar workers, and for some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the left-wing newspaper New Age . In the 1940s he was one of those responsible for bringing … 1987| Tribute by Dr Yusuf M Dadoo, Chairman of SACP, at the funeral of M. P. Naicker , London, May 8, 1977|Tribute by …

… At an early age he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. He was the owner of an eating-house in the city, which in due course …

… He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to the Wilberforce Native Teacher’s College. He then worked as a … clerk. He married, and settled in Jabavu, Soweto . During the 1950s, Sejake was a leading member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), and the …

… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade … completing his schooling at Malvern Primary School and the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg, Murray …

… King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was … Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2009.|Peires, Jeff. The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa …

… both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of Apartheid . la Guma was born in 1925 in District Six , South Africa. He was the son of prominent political activist Jimmy la Guma  (James), who was centrally involved in the South African Communist Party (SACP), the African …

… and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later the National President of the South African Congress of Trade Unions [SACTU]) were the youngest of four children. Levy attended the Yeoville …

… was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up. Most of his schooling took place at the German School in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Kleinschmidt comes from a family of missionaries, the earliest of whom arrived at the Cape in 1811. In 1814, …

… was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter. He first attended the Broad Road Primary School and then Trafalgar High School … formed by his teachers who encouraged political debate on the inequalities suffered by black people. His political …

… matriculating from Nassau High School, Hofmeyr enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he completed a BA in … [ii] . Through this time, his research interests were the African National Congress (ANC) attempts to organise farmworkers in the Western Cape during the Great Depression [iii] . Having …

… Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was a French Huguenot refugee named … from Toulon (Provence) France, who arrived at the Cape in 1704 as refugees fleeing religious persecution in …

… opposed to racism while studying at Rhodes University in the 1930s. An intellectual and a revolutionary, Harmel was … versed in Marxism-Leninism and deeply devoted to the liberation of all mankind, most passionately in … virtually his entire adult life working full-time for the Communist Party in whatever roles he was assigned. Harmel …

… in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from … was a successful merchant, who had strong sympathies for the anti-imperialist struggle in India. He also took Mahatma … Her eldest brother A.H. Gool studied in England and was the second Black doctor in South Africa. At his insistence …

… article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate society from … a better life. He was a true patriot as a man of unity in the struggle against apartheid. His sacrifices were not in …

… Thaniachallam Kistnasamy Naicker, worked as a builder at the local Huletts Sugar Mill and his mother, Shanbagavalli, was a housewife. Kistnasamy  attended the Felixton Government-Aided Indian Primary School … children from Class One (Grade 1) to Std. VI (Grade 8). The school had a “platoon” section that catered for the …

… in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg … as a dispatch clerk for a chemist while studying law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he graduated with a …

… had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s from Pokroy, a small village in Lithuania and his … and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, graduating from the law … H. M. (2020). Maisels and his ‘most famous client’ , from the South African Jewish Report , 16 July 2020 (online). …

… Munnik (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a … Johann Barthold Hertzog, and Susanna Maria Jacoba Hamman. The first school he attended was in Kimberley, where he …