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… Glenn Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and Phyllis Moss, a … and then attended Pretoria Boys High. On matriculating, at the end of 1969, he enrolled for a BA degree at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating with majors in …

… exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October … as well as a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Liverpool, England. She also attended courses on International Relations at the Institute of International Relations, Potsdam, East …

… , Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to the Durban Indian Girls’ School in Dartnell Crescent, which was the first Indian High school for girls. She was part of the …

… Patricia de Lille, a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children in an Afrikaans-speaking coloured …  (PAC) supporter. She received her primary education at the Methodist Primary School and thereafter completed her …

… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). … overtly political, his parents encouraged lively debate in the family of 10. A consistent concern for human justice stems from Asmal’s childhood. Like the vast majority of South Africans then, his first brush …

… Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven children. His father was a labourer, while his mother stayed at home to care for the family.April’s father was a very politically conscious … of Communism and used to attend political rallies at the Grand Parade, Cape Town in the 1940s.He was a soldier of …

… 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. … communication medium. He received his primary education in the Pietersburg district at Ga-Madiba, Mashashane Lutheran … Junior Certificate in 1930, matric in 1933 and the B.A. degree in 1941 with a Transvaal Education Department …

… Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, … one child with is wife, Josephine, nee van Zyl. He went to the local primary school and matriculated from Ladybrand … prefect. Following his high school career Coetsee attended the University of the Orange Free State where he completed …

… Cecil John Rhodes was the sickly, poorly educated and otherwise unremarkable son of … early age that he was doomed to a short life and died at the age of 48. Relatively late in life, after supplementing … a common educational experience, he envisioned that these future leaders of the world's major powers would “prevent war …

… Ela Gandhi was born in 1940 in Phoenix Settlement  in the Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal . Indians, Coloured, … no tarred roads, public water supply and no electricity. The Gandhi home was a basic family homestead, a wood and iron house where she lived in for the first six years of her life. Her father later built a …

… was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion protested against the  National Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which enabled the apartheid …

… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role in local civic affairs. He was a leading voice in the struggle against apartheid, injustice and oppression. His …

… Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban . She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the Northern Transvaal but completed her primary schooling in … political figures were either students or lecturers at the university at the time, and her father, a member of the …

… moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, his family moved to KwaMashu. It was the untenable conditions of poverty under which he and his … Seekings J. (2000)’A history of the United Democratic Front in South Africa 1983-1991’, Ohio …

… Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review . His mother was a social worker …

… Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist … categorized or placed into a specific box is apparent in the complex layers of Searle’s work; characterised by a … to simply one thing or another. She is concerned with the complexities of identity and belonging in relation to …

… born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in … her Doctorate in Lit et Phil on Maggie Laubser  in 1983 at the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of … She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in literature from the University of Witwatersrand in 2012. Miles intermittently …

… School and later went on to study Sports Science at the University of North West. In the African Junior Championships in 2009, Semenya won both the 800 meters (m) and 1500m races with the times of 1:56.72 … ttps://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/on-caster-semenya-and-the-gender-stereotypes-peddled-by-her-critics/ | …

… Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the … The Presidency. (2011). Margaret Gazo . Available at …

… was born in 1927 in Makwassie in Southern Transvaal, the eldest of four children – a younger brother and two … a secretarial course. She started working in 1944 when the business college she attended sent her to work as a bookkeeper at the South African Typographical Union (SATU). After a year …

… a housewife. Govender has ten siblings. He attended the Cato Manor Government Aided Indian School and then went … Sastri College (high school), Durban. He spent a year at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and then went to the Springfield Training College for teachers in Asherville, …

… on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby career in the 1950s, he captained the Orange Free State province. By …

… Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He … up on a country estate outside Oxford where he enjoyed the privileges of the British upper class, but later rebelled against what he …

… married in 1923.  His father was an engine driver with the railways as was his grandfather, Henry, who had been one of the drivers who had driven the train which took the body of Cecil John Rhodes to be …

… 10. In 1940, after finishing school, he signed up to join the army.   He was a soldier during World War II in North … Italy and was wounded by shrapnel in an air raid. After the war, Middleton returned to Pietermaritzburg and began … Eddels shoe factory, where he became an active member of the Leather Workers’ Union, eventually becoming …

… 1953, in South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly Lubowski. He was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski family in Namibia. At …

… Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams … him pencils and paper and he taught himself to draw.  At the age of four, after his parents separated, Adams moved to … Adams attended Arsenal Road Primary School, and later the Livingstone High School in Claremont. It was here that …

… unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence and Aid Fund The young Hepple …

… High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942. At the age of 15 even before he finished his schooling, he … his sister, Val, who was 21, died of diabetes.  He asked the family doctor why his sister and his grandmother had the disease while he and his mother did not. The reply was …

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for me people. This is culture." - Thami Mnyele … Sack,S. (1988). <em>The Neglected Tradition, </em>Johannesburg:Johannesburg  Art …