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… England to Ernest Huddleston and his wife. Soon after, the family moved to Golders Green, a suburb in North London. At the age of four Huddleston served as a ‘boat boy’ in the Anglican Church, and at the age of five he went to a …

… on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous … commercial centre in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. He was the youngest in a family of five, and still an infant when … Since his father Amarien, was not able to care for him, the latter’s childless sister, Maryam, reared him. This aunt …

… Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) from the mid-1930s to 1945, when militants took over the … Taken from Pahad, E. The Development of Indian Political Movements in South …

… Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He was the 35th President of Brazil. President Lula had little … to read until he was 10 years old and quit school after the fourth grade to find work to help support his family.  …

… his mother, Lulama Sidumo (nee Ndondo),worked. Following the death of his grandmother, his mother took him to her elder sister’s family, the Ntsebeza’s, in Cala, Transkei (now Eastern Cape) to raise … his Matriculation in 1980. Ndondo then registered at the University of Transkei (UNITRA) in Umtata, Transkei in …

… Thembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transke i. He was the fifth of the six children of … L.S.A. Togni. The new dictionary of South Africa biography Volume 2 . Vista … C. 1991. My Life: An autobiography written in 1991 , from the South African Communist Party, [online], Available at …

… Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN]. Following the student boycotts in the 1970s, and upon learning that his name was on a list of …

… nationalities living side by side. She was raised in the home of her grandparents with her older brother and … with his older brother. She started primary schooling in the Villageboard and went on to attend the Saint Patrick Catholic School in the North-end Port …

… Calata was born on 5 November 1956. Fort’s grandfather, the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata , was the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1936 to 1949. In … Anon, (2010), Fort Calata from The Cradock Four , [online],  Available at …

… home when he was ten years old and went coal mining in the forest of Dean, Wales. At the age of nineteen, Long joined the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery and left …

… He grew up in Pinelands, Cape Town, but moved at the age of nine to live with his aunt, outside Hobhouse, … Eastern Free State after his father died. Eglin attended the Hobhouse School where he was the only English–speaking learner. The tension between the …   www.news24.com . Accessed on 3 December 2013| Premier of the Western Cape. (2004). List of Honourees receiving …

… and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his … Strydom.  Johanna Scheepers was born in 1915. During the depression of the 1930s Scheepers and her sister, Anna Magrieta, went to … in Economic History, Rand Afrikaans University. The new dictionary of South Africa biography Volume 2, Vista …

… Leander Starr Jameson was the son of Robert William Jameson and Christian Pringle. … in Hammersmith. Jameson went for a medical profession at the University College Hospital, London in January 1870, … He became very popular and among those he treated were the Transvaal President, Paul Kruger and the Matabele King, …

… vessel which transported sugar (SS Frontier). He attended the Essendene Road Primary school in Sydenham, Durban and … a result of his trade union activities. In 1951 he became the full time secretary of the Dairy Worker's Union. Nair's political awareness was …

… 1874, Penrhos Monmouthshire, England. His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William Crawley. After spending his …

… mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were seven children, five brothers and two sisters, in the family. From very early, the parents placed great emphasis on their children being … of Horror as Zuma's Missing Years Come to Light from the Sunday Times, 22 February online. Available at …

… Mohammed Cassim Bassa the estate agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a businessman, … was schooled in Durban and in 1944 matriculated through the prestigious Sastri College. Though his father encouraged …

… little is known about his early life. He was educated at the Edendale Mission in Pietermaritzburg, and at the Healdtown Institution in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of …

… Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist  Episcopal minister,Make grew … and Healdtown  high schools and later studied law through the University of South Africa. When Make was still a student …

… Transvaal (now Gauteng) when gold diggings began in the Transvaal in 1886. He started hawking fresh produce and … into operation. According to E S Reddy 's, (Director of the United Nations Centre against Apartheid and author) … daughter Thailema: There was a smallpox epidemic in the Indian location and the Indian traders, not only from the …

… Garson and Stephen Bonny Mpama, an interpreter for the Potchefstroom resident magistrate. She grew up in … ) but moved back to Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the surname ‘Mpama’ when she moved to a Black township to be …

… Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Sir Garnet Wolseley, British …

… Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now … from Sastri College in 1939. Meer studied Law at the University of the Witwatersrand which he completed in 1946 and qualified as …

… on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954 he obtained his LLB Cum Laude. Two years later he was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar.  A keen soccer player, he was a member …

… He left school after Standard 8 (Grade 10) and worked for the Railways, where he joined the railway workers’ union. Mkonto married his wife Sindiswa … Lonwabo. Mkonto lived and worked under trying conditions. The average wage of a railway worker in Cradock in 1983 was …

… scholarship to Rand Afrikaner University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg. Pienaar enrolled for Law degree at the university. As a student, Pienaar interests in rugby … ambitions of playing provincial rugby for Transvaal (now the Golden Lions). With that ambition in mind, he would …

… College in 1935. As a student, he was influenced by the writings of Samuel Krune Mqhayi. With no other prospects for a viable career, Gqobose joined the South African Military Service in 1941, and served in … Africa, Egypt, Libya and Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the army with the rank of Corporal in 1946 – a corporal was …

… was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid government continued its project of racial …

… seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended school … After school he started working at Amato Textiles mills in the early 1950's. It was during this period that he became involved with the trade unions. While working at Amato Textiles, he …

… born in 1921 Alexander Township , Johannesburg . She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified … Household conditions forced Florence to drop out of the school during Std 6 and look for a job to assist her … Culture, Science and Technology, 2000  Women Marching into the 21 st century pp.35-36 …