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… formal education, spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the present town of Dewetsdorp. At the age of nineteen, he …

… he attended Johannesburg Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr. Yusuf Dadoo  and the Cachalia brothers, who were leaders of the freedom movement in the Transvaal. Kathrada’s political … Ahmed Kathrada Biography , from the  Ahmed Kathrada Foundation , [online], Available at  …

… Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as … political organiser and journalist. In 1926 he joined the CPSA, becoming one of its most loyal African adherents in …

… David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita … He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the northern Transvaal. In 1916 his father fought against Germany in the First World War. David was born on a farm approximately …

… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van … He was born near Winburg on 22 October 1847. After the Battle of Boomplaats, the British confiscated their farm so the family trekked to …

… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … at Queen’s College in Queenstown and matriculated in 1950. The following year he began his journalism career by working at The Queenstown Daily Representative, the local town’s weekly …

… was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the United Kingdom to Johannesburg, South Africa when Pratt … business interests in a range of companies that included the Electricity Supply Commission , Rand Water Board , as …

… Province). A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, Arnold, and his wife Jemima. While the domestic circumstances of the la Guma family, which was of French-Malgasy origin, are …

… Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the  Graaff Reinet  district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of …

… Winnie  Motlalepule Kgware was born in Thaba Nchu in the Free State on the 27th of October in 1917.  A teacher by profession, and resident at the University of the North (Turfloop). In 1942 she married a … The Presidency (2003). Winnie  Kgware . Available at    …

… Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna … his two elder brothers, he spent a great deal of time with the black workers on his father's farm. It was in their …

… John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other … office. He became a reporter before moving to the Cape Colony in 1858 because of health reasons. He … of frontier security, as his farm was situated at the frontier, in contested terrain close to Xhosa …

… Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand area before  Shaka  brought them under his … or Ngodongwa) life. But as far as we know, towards the end of the eighteenth century Godongwana (Dingiswayo's …

… at Catholic schools and for some years was a brother in the Marist order and the son of a civil servant .As a young boy he heard pastoral … his eldest brother, a university student, who spoke about the effects of apartheid and resistance to apartheid.Kearney … The Southern Cross. (2018). SA Catholic Giant Paddy Kearney …

… Matthews was born  20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a … voter and his cousin,  Sol Plaatje , a founder member of the ANC - Matthews devoted the first part of his life exclusively to education. From …

… to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the capacity of the Dutch to reduce indigenous people to positions of … of European colonisation. To ensure his safe return to the Cape, he told Commissioner Joan Cunaeus of his wish to …

… was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana … matriculated in 1932 at Lovedale Missionary Institute, in the Eastern Cape in the former Ciskei . Gumede subsequently studied at the South …

… Sophiatown,  Johannesburg . He received his schooling at the St Cyprian's Anglican School in Sophiatown, and the Johannesburg Bantu High School (sometimes called Western … In 1958 he became an insurance agent. Sibeko joined the  Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) during the state of …

… interpreter. In 1908 he began theological training at the Lessyton Theological school near Queenstown. He was … politically active. In 1919 he was elected as president of the Cape provincial branch of the  South African Native National Council  (SANNC, African …

… School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months. The wife of the local reverend, Dominee Lukas van der Merwe, gave her … Africa Democracy Education Trust (SADET) (2006) The Road to Democracy in South Africa , Vol. 2 [1970-1980] Pretoria. pp. 135-6|SADET (2006). The Road to Democracy in South Africa Volume 2 [1960 ”“ …

… (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl , in the Western Cape . She was born into a large family of 8 … became ill with tuberculosis. When a doctor suggested that the climate in Paarl was not good for his health, the Joseph family moved to Cape Town where he worked as a …

… 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of … active in his local Methodist parish and chairperson of the Methodist Wesley Youth Guild at the age of 16. His …

… The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu.  He attended the local primary school and in Standard Six he went to live …

… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal was the son of the Jariam Singh, a former President of the Transvaal Indian Association. He received his early …

… lawyer. His father was a founding member and later became the President of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in 1947. In the 1960s, while he was still a pupil at primary school, the … A Literary Biography Of Zakes Mda , Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts, from University Of South Africa …

… John James Issel was born on 17 August 1946 in the wine-growing area of Worcester outside Cape Town . At a tender age, he worked on a vineyard, cleaning grapes for the export market. It was during this time that he was introduced to a form of payment in cheap wine known as the “tot system”, which kept farm labourers in a constant …

… Cape Town. His father, Abraham Manuel, worked for the Cape Town City Council.Manuel attended Harold Cressy High … position in 1981 to volunteer as a community organiser for the Cape Areas Housing Committee (CAHAC). He was also appointed as a field worker for the Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC), a …

… Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of Nokuna and Kanana Mbuyabo. … respectively. At Nkwenkwezi Secondary School, Nko was at the forefront in the struggle to get the Students …

… Daniel Simon Letanka was born at Saulspoort in the Rustenburg district of the Transvaal in 1874 and attended the Native College in Grahamstown in the Cape. Hoping to …

… Transvaal (now known as Polokwane in Limpopo ) and the St Mountford Convent in Louis Trichardt, as well as the Kilnerton Training College. She joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1959, when it broke away …