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… was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended … in Rosettenville, Johannesburg and he matriculated at the Healdtown Institute near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. In 1937 Nkomo studied for a BSc degree at …

… Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish … went to work for a firm of building suppliers and joined the Shop Workers Union. In 1933 he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and became active …

… Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba was born in the 1850s at Ngqakayi in the Eastern Cape. His father, Ntibane Mzimba, was educated in Lovedale and became a deacon in the Presbyterian Church. He attended school at the famous …

… Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes … to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War. The …

… John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master builder … Al Cook, ‘The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, or IDAF’; chapter 3 of volume 3, part 1, of The Road to Democracy in South Africa; published by the South …

… Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic … inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg municipality. Nyanda attended Thulasizwe …

… Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted to the Bar in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an auxiliary body, although he …

… was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife NaMahlangu, a member of …

… Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came … insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in Ferreirastown, …

… Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé … was born in Latvia and came to South Africa in 1906 at the age of 10. Matilda came to South Africa from Lithuania … when she was four years old. They were founder members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, later South …

… born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising School in Johannesburg and Orlando High. She worked as a nurse at the Pretoria General Hospital and at an old people's home in … ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo , website: anc.org.za.| South …

… grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where … provincial colours and later participated and completed the famous long-distance Comrades Marathon. His political consciousness was awakened at the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal – …

… that proved unstable, and multiple interventions by the military, until the coup that brought Mathieu Kérékou to power in 1972. After … itself a critical juncture, helped shape the immediate future of politics in Benin just as the later democratic …

… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port … and trade union organiser. His union comrades knew Mini as the 'organiser of the unorganised', because of his courage and tireless efforts … • Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980).  Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions , …

… a diploma in Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked towards a University … social work after a year. She was offered a scholarship by the Institute of Race Relations to do a postgraduate course … On her return to South Africa, Piliso-Seroke worked for the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Natal (now …

… and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the Inanda Seminary, a girls’ high school in Durban . She then studied at the Natal and Fort Hare Universities where she obtained a … Technologist. Madlala-Routledge worked as a researcher at the Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) and at …

… After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal.Mtshali became active in the trade union movement, organising workers in Durban in the 1950s. His organising began with the Dock and Harbour … November 2012]| Sadet, 2012. Interviews: Eric Mtshali ’ in The Road To Democracy Project [online]. Available at …

… 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near Winburg, where he joined the Voortrekker group of the population, hostile to H. D.Warden. Together with five …

… Town . Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church … Presidency Communications Research Document: The National Orders Awards, October 2004 [online] Available …

… Else Schreiner.  Else and Deneys were active members of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).  Deneys did not join any political party after the LPSA was banned as he would not join an exclusively white … Chemistry, was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (now the university …

… Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at  the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of  Sidney Percival Bunting  and  Rebecca Bunting . …

… O and A Level Cambridge Certificates, Ledochowski attended the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in Poland for several months … returned to South Africa to undergo conscription in the South African Defence Force. From 1977 to 1980 … Ledochowski studied to obtain a diploma in Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape …

… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … recruited Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize first into the trade union movement in 1962, and into MK later the same … SADET, (2001), Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize from The Road to Democracy Project , [online] Available at …

… Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee Pillay. The Naiker family arrived in South Africa when Monty's … South Africa as a contract labourer. Monty matriculated at the Marine College in 1927. In 1928 he left for the …

… have one son and two daughters. Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He … obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from the University in 1973.  By the time he received his …

… parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of four he attended Paterson High School. He graduated from the University of Fort Hare with distinction in English in 1948.  His studies in law at the University of Witwatersrand were cut short by his …

… Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister … his father, his step-mother, Maria, and step-siblings. The racial divides of the time prevented his parents from marrying and Tsafendas …

… 25 kilometers from Durban. She matriculated in 1959, at the age of 19. Tshabalala-Msimang went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 from the University of Fort Hare, located in the Eastern Cape . During her studies, she became involved … South Africa’s controversial health minister,’ in  The Lancet , Vol 365, pp.1131.|Louw, M., (2006). ‘ Please …

… Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation struggle from his student days as a member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) .  He co-founded the Alexandra Youth Congress (AYCO) in 1983 and was elected …

… was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the discrimination practiced by the mine bosses and the … Singh, E. (2002), Who was Arnold Selby , from the South African Communist Party, 6 September [online] …