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… Magwaza was born on 4 April 1962, in Lamontville, one of the oldest Durban townships, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). … drama. As a political activist he was very involved with the creation of the now famous play “Asinamali” by Mbongeni Ngema. His …

… Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He attended the St. Paul’s Catholic school in Mumbai, India, for five years. The family arrived in South Africa from India in 1958. He completed his primary education at the Surat Hindu Primary, Durban and then attended Nigel High …

… Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth …

… Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born … in Livingstone, Zambia. During this time his father was the director of the newly created Rhodes Livingstone …

… born in Johannesburg in 1922. He matriculated in 1938 at the King Edward VII High School. In 1941, he obtained a BA degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. He served with the South African forces in … The Presidency, (2008), Sir Sydney Kentridge (1922 - ) …

… Johannesburg, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town  where he majored in African … History and Psychology. Gideon began photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid . This experience as a “struggle …

… apprenticeship in London. In South Africa, he worked for the Cape Timesand the Rand Daily Mail. In 1949, Lee-Warden started his own printing works at the back of a furniture shop in Keerom Street. A year later, … P. ()  156 Hands that Built South Africa . Published by the author. p. 81- 83 Zug, J (2008)  The Guardian: The …

… Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958.  Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice … worker. When Jack was six years old, his family moved to the farm Klipdrift near Oyster Bay.  Jack attended the … I. 2010.  Record-breaking rally greeted Madiba in PE .  The Herald  [Online] 11 February. Available at:  …

… Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a leading …

… Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. … daughter, thereby developing a close relationship with the party’s Head. As a result of being a motor-mouth, Momberg … then nicknamed “Jan Bek”. Jannie Momberg was a member of the Nationalist Party since 1957, and rose through the ranks …

… year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She returned to South Africa the following year to study at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She later graduated from … We received much of this information from the photographer herself. All of the pictures have been taken …

… Malherbe was born on 28 May 1881 in Dal Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society for Real Afrikaners). Malherbe attended the Gedenkschool der Hugenoten in the Dal, or Valley, and the …

… one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the  Natal Indian Congress  in 1941 and became an executive … 1963. At that time Naicker was detained for 55 days under the notorious 90-Day Detention Law and was subsequently charged in the Natal sabotage trial sitting at Pietermaritzburg and …

… writer, philosopher and intellectual. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where after a sabbatical of two and a half years in the Netherlands, he obtained a D Phil. His initial … his career as an academic, in 1965, as a lecturer at the University College, Durban (University of …

… Lithuania . Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, he was educated in Johannesburg. He began work at the age of 16 and became an active trade unionist, serving as …

… a politician and teacher, Gwala known as Munt'omdala or The Lion of the Midlands, grew up in the Pietermaritzburg area. After completing his teacher's … Mseleku, T. 1999. The new dictionary of South Africa biography Volume 2 . Vista …

… National Congress camps in 1984 , which culminated into the ‘ Stuart Report .’ [i] According to political journalist … would have been mass executions if Loots had not had the courage and integrity, in the face of considerable pressure, to report the truth’. [ii] …

… Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape. He was … Port Elizabeth from 1965 to 1968. He then left to study at the University of Fort Hare an obtained a Bachelor of Arts …

… Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children.  He came to South Africa … Bonnievale High School in 1961, after which he studied at the University of Stellenbosch, obtaining a BA degree … challenge his  National Party  upbringing and joined the (then) Progressive Party. When he joined the Progressive …

… Stephen Black was the son of Henry and Sarah Black. He was born in September … engaged by George Kingswell who was owner and editor of The Owl. He wrote articles on boxing for the weekly paper. After working as sports editor for some …

… age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She participated in the Defiance Campaign  in 1952, which led to her being …

… Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City Hall, Cape Town (1917) is a painting that has special relevance for this exhibition. It is a view of the environs of the two main venues used for SASA's first …

… was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 July 1967. He was appointed the Bishop of  Rustenburg  on December 2 1990, and Archbishop …

… Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art … a DAAD scholarship to undertake a Master’s degree in the Hochschule FÁ¼r Bildende KÁ¼nste, in Hamburg. For the most part of the 1970s, the artist became an active …

… Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, … area community of people who came to be classified during the Apartheid years, as ‘coloured’ and ‘white’ but defiantly contradicted the official segregationist paradigm and did not neatly fit …

… 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of Gabriel Matibili, a migrant worker from Nyasaland (Malawi) who had been trained as a carpenter by the Jesuits. His mother, Bona, belonged to the Shona ethnic …

… when she adopted a mute Black boy (6). She wanted to send the boy to the school for the deaf in Worcester . The police forced her to move. Her …

… Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo ). . Lumumba’s tribe was the …

… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an … in Benoni, then moved to springs before enrolling at the Ndaleni Training Institute, Natal, where he completed his … he remained from 1963-69. Although African workers in the metal industry were not organised at that time, they were …

… Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in … a hawker and a shopkeeper.Dr Jassat matriculated from the Johannesburg Indian High School and was one of only 12 black students to be accepted by the Medical Faculty of the University of the Witwatersrand …