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… Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. … but on his return he quarreled with his church over how the money was to be used.In 1885 Dwane and his family moved to Middledrift,where Chief Kama of the Gqunukhwebe subgroup of the Xhosa had been given some …

… Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to the Transvaal where his father had bought land. It was here …

… Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto.  He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high … of a religious youth movement and from his experiences in the youth movement and as a worker, he joined the progressive …

… he did both his primary and high school education. During the  1976 uprisings , Mokaba became a leader of school … matric on his own in 1978 and then went on to enrol with the University of the North in 1980. He was detained under the Terrorism Act in …

… Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in Nylstroom, now known as Modimolle, in the Limpopo Province. He was a secretary of the National Party's district committee. In 1929 Strijdom was …

… Mzala`s academic record was outstanding. He acquired the name, Comrade Mzala, as he was fond of addressing everyone as “mzala, mzala”.) In 1972, at the age of 15, he was detained without trial for his role in a school boycott. The following year he was arrested again and charged with …

… Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer, at the time a member of the Bloemfontein Bar. Percy later became a much-respected … The first Bram Fischer memorial lecture, delivered by …

… His father was a furniture designer who had a shop on the Cape Town Foreshore [Plaut Interior Design] and his … his father was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, but left in the 1930s due to the persecution of Jews. Plaut schooled at Saint Georges and …

… Sobukwe ’s propagation of Pan Africansit ideas, he joined the  Pan Africanist Congress  (PAC) at its formation in 1959. He was appointed as the party branch leader in Daveyton Township near Benoni. Two years after the banning of the PAC, Mlambo went to the PAC’s underground …

… Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January … 1951 in Johannesburg . His father was  a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) church. Chikane attended … in Soweto where he matriculated before registering at the University of the North (Turfloop) in 1972 to study …

… Naidoo , was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of Hermann Kallenbach , established the Tolstoy Farm where former political prisoners and …

… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later to be renamed the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA). After graduating … Accessed on 5 February 2019|Kayser, R. Land and Liberty - The Unity Movement and the Land Question, 1933 – 1976 online. …

… Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother died young and Uys was … a boy, Uys read voraciously. He had worked his way through the George Bernard Shaw canon by the age of 16. Shaw was an influence in his becoming a …

… was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his … superintendant of public works in Tlhabane. Frustrated by the racial hierarchy, he left and from 1972 spent most of the next decade working at Rustenburg Platinum Mines.  But …

… Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist … in 1968, to major in languages. Under surveillance from the Portuguese secret police, she was forced to abandon her education and flee to Switzerland to escape the prison sentence that was almost certainly waiting for her …

… Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four children. His father, a businessperson in the fishing industry, died when he was six years old. His … Isaacs S. (2010). Surviving in the Apartheid Prison . XLibris, (Cape Town).| Hartley A. …

… Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born … name given by his parents was Lij Tafari Makonnen. He was the only surviving son of the governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael. Selassie …  [accessed: 20 October 2014]|Libcom.org, 1935-1980s: The reign of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia , from Libcom.org …

… on 26 May 1934 and grew up in District Six. He attended the Kipling Street Muslim primary school in Salt River and … Six, where his political awareness was formed under the influence of his English teacher, Ben Kies.  After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree. As a student …

… Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei , the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. He attended primary school … UDM,    Bantu Holomisa, President of the UDM from the United Democratic Movement,  [online] …

… grateful to his English teacher, David Miller. Miller was the only schoolteacher he named in his brief and unrevised … him for instilling in him an informed love of books. At the age of 16, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), …

… acting as King. Jongintaba raised Nelson Mandela at the ‘Great Place’ Mqhekezweni when his own father died in the 1920s.Many years later, former Prime Minister of Transkei … had been instrumental in selecting Sabata as heir, but the truth of the matter seems to be that he was unanimously …

… 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and … his local school, Mda proceeded to further his studies at the Catholic institutions of St Francis in Aliwal North and … as teacher, Mda struggled to secure a teaching job in the Eastern Cape until he settled for a menial work as …

… Ruth Mompati was born on 14 September 1925 in the village called Khanyesa in the North West Province . She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko and her father was … books.google.com [Accessed 12 August 2009]|Ruth Mompati: The road to democracy: South Africans telling their stories, …

… secondary education was at Headltown near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape. He read for a Bachelor of Arts degree with the University of Fort Hare. While still studying, Mosaka became involved with the Transvaal Student Association. After completing his …

… Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province ). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in the labour movement early on in her life. In the early 1950s she was elected Assistant Secretary of the …

… Nkabinde became a South African Mbaqanga singer; known as the “Lion of Soweto”. Nkabinde was the most prominent of the basso-profundo “groaners” of black South African music. …

… Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was the chairman of the British Indian Association, was in prison … Cape Town, p 46|Reddy, E.S. 1992. Indian South Africans in the struggle for national liberation: Evidence of Molvi …

… birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to play the saxophone and the clarinet, and is said to have had a big showman …

… Secondary School in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the City Council, working in the Department of Native Affairs, 'Bra Ike', as Maphotho is … Isaac Lesiba  Maphotho (1931”“ ) , from The Presidency , [online], Available at …

… General Schalk Willem Burger was born on the 6 September 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During this period he … Marleen Flemmer, ‘Sir William H Beaumont and the Native Land Commission 1913-1916, A Thesis Submitted in …