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… was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both parents were originally from the Free State Province (formerly known as Orange Free State). His father moved the family out of Free State after the racism in the  area …

… 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman Catholic Mission School provided Cressy's primary education and at the age eight he was sent to Cape Town to continue his …

… George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos was at school in Kalamata, which was near his …

… Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the third of eight children. At the age of 17, Motsoaledi …

… Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke … Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and formed the South African Students Organization (SASO) in July 1968. … University Exchange Fund, its Rise and Demise , from the African National Congress , 25 November, [online] …

… known about his early life except that he was a member of the Bakgatlo tribe. He was drafted as a driver for the Boer commandos during the South African War. During his time there he learned to …

… beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared … was determined by the apartheid government to be the future site of a ‘model Coloured township’, and forced …

… Pieter Beyleveld was born in 1916 in the Orange Free State and educated at farm schools. He joined the army at the outbreak of World War II, when many of his neighbours … online. Accessed on 3 November 2011|SADET (2004). The Road to Democracy in South Africa Volume 1 (1960 ”“ …

… Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and Queen …  - PRESS BRIEFINGS MONDAY 24TH JANUARY 1994 - PROFILES OF THE FIRST 50 CANDIDATES OF THE ANC NATIONAL LIST [online] Available at www.e-tools.co.za …

… high school he began working with various drama groups in the New Brighton area performing in schools and community halls. In 1965 while working at the Ford Motor Company in Port Elizabeth Kani became a member of the Serpent Players drama group. It was here that he met …

… The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). The township fell victim to apartheid’s forced removals as a … . (Accessed 28 January 2017) The Orbit. (n.d). Lefifi Tladi. [online]. Available at: …

… descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority. Gordimer was educated at a convent school … SA's lost an unmatched literary giant - ANC , on behalf of the ANC , July 14 [online], Available at …

… (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district in what is today the Eastern Cape. In 1964 he matriculated at the Ficksburg …

… was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell … and lecturer. Both his parents were active members of the  Non-European Unity Movement  (NEUM). Jordan's family was … and he followed in their footsteps. He started off at the age of seven by selling copies of  Torch , a newspaper …

… Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to Greenock where his father … family engaged in tea blending. Kerr attended the Mearns Street Primary School in Greenock and then, in …

… west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young woman, Rathebe was drawn to the burgeoning and vibrant music scene in Sophiatown and …

… awarded a B.A. he enrolled in 1942 for an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a student at the Stellenbosch Theological Seminary until 1945. During these years he was a member of the Student Representative Council, Chairman of the Students’ …

… was also born.  He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the Western Province. Marks attended the local school where he completed Standard Five,moved to … Abdulla Abdurahman , both political activists,he joined the South African Colored People's Organisation (SACPO) in …

… but received private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a Bachelor of … Gutsche moved to Johannesburg where she began working for the weekly newspaper The Forum writing film reviews. She …

… Cornelius ("Connie") Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started teaching … Afrikaans and German in Randfontein. He also studied with the University of the Witwatersrand and completed a doctorate …

… Cornelius Petrus Mulder was born on the 5 June 1925. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and obtained the Transvaal Education Diploma in 1945. He started teaching … Afrikaans and German in Randfontein. He also studied with the University of the Witwatersrand and completed a doctorate …

… Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). He attended the Bobonong Primary School between 1936 and 1941.He then … schooling at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax … from Damelin College in Johannesburg. Dingake joined the  African National Congress  (ANC) in 1952 during the  …

… in 1946 in Pretoria .  He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo Province. He matriculated at Afrikaans Hoër Seunsskool in 1963 after which he attended the University of Pretoria but did not complete his studies. … on various newspapers ( Die Vaderland, Die Transvaler, The Cape Argus, Die Burger ). At Die Burger he was attached …

… She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980, an LL.M. from the University of Sydney with first class honours in 1981 and …

… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry first by the English … by Dan Sleigh (Secker and Warburg, 2004) "Translated from the original Afrikaans version by Andre Brink, drawing on the …

… Please note:  This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human and Rousseau. If …

… [Chief] Abram Ramotshere Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to standard five [grade seven] … S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under …

… was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German … who met in Philippolis and married and settled there in the late 1870s. The family was on a visit to Schleswig Holstein when Freund …

… Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times …

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew up in the South Western Native Township (Soweto), attending a local …