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… Churchill Masakeng Saoli was born on 3 January 1950 in the town of Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal, now known as Mpumalanga Province. He was the second of six children, the son of the Reverend Russell Saoli. As a child, he … ‘ Winston Saoli ’ in Proud, H., ed. Revisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African . UNISA and SA History Online, …

… An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a … Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed a Justice of the Constitutional Court on its foundation in 1994, a position he held until 2002. He headed the Independent Electoral Commission, which ran the country’s …

… his Matriculation Examination, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism.  Woods initially supported the idea of separate development but was critical of the way  National Party (NP)  led government implemented the …

… Hagen and Petrus Johannes Slabbert. Slabbert attended the  Marabastad  Farm School, later Eertsegoud Primary, and the Pietersburg Primary School, matriculating from the Pietersburg Afrikaans Hoërskool School in 1958. He was …

… Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's second-in-command in the Natal African National Congress (ANC)in the 1950s,and a …

… Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in … coverage of Dutch news and comment. He became active in the Middelburg Boeren Vereeniging and was elected secretary … moderate stance and used his newspaper and position in the Vereeniging to popularise Hofmeyr. De Waal became a …

… Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . … Iris, Eva and Robert Jnr. When she was five years old, the 1922 miners strike took place. Her father participated in …

… up politics. When she was about 13, she became active in the underground Latvian Communist Party. She arrived in South … Cissie Gool and lifelong friend John Gomas , she joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , aged 16. In the same year, she lost her first job when she took part in …

… The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly … millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to work very closely with him, and really got … who is truly committed to make a contribution to changing the quality of life of South Africans. South African Revenue …

… Vearey was born in 1963 in Elsies River. He describes the area as a ‘different Elsies River’ than today as it was … both sets of families.His grandfather and father did all the slaughtering of animals in the area, a skill which he learnt by helping them.His … Vearey – activist, teacher, gang-buster, top cop with the heart of a poet”, …

… His mother, Gumte Singh, was born in Durban. Singh was the youngest in a family with five brothers and two sisters. There were very few primary schools in the area, so he ended up going to primary school at about 11 … He went to work as his father had passed away by then. The notorious Group Areas Act of 1950 , the 1956 Treason …

… "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a mineworker and …

… Fikile Charles Bam was born on 18 July 1937, in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1960. Bam was a member of the Yu Chi Chan Club (Chinese for guerrilla warfare) which …

… (sometimes spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and his mother, principal wife …

… in Johannesburg . She was educated in England from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in … a deep love of and interest in her Scottish roots. At the outbreak of World War II she volunteered as an escort on a ship taking evacuee children to South Africa. In the early 1950s, she married the Russian emigrant …

… Kgositsile began writing as a hobby. He soon got a job at the newspaper, New Age, where he contributed poetry and news reporting. The New Age was a radical anti-Apartheid newspaper edited by … activist Ruth First . Kgositsile, being a member of the African National Congress  (ANC), through the newspaper, …

… 1914, Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. … his family relocated to KwaMphepheta in Mbumbulu. One of the reasons for the relocation was that Lembede should get a formal …

… Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when … This resulted in her growing up at a boarding school under the guardianship of the Dutch Reformed Church at Platteland in the Transvaal. At …

… of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine … . She was a trade unionist and a women's leader from the late 1940s to the 1980s. She moved in with a friend in Port Elizabeth where …

… 1938 in Orlando East,  Soweto . His parents were among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a … attend St.Peter’s (now St. Martin’s, Victoria) until 1955. The head of this school was  Father Trevor Huddleston , who influenced David’s political views. The school was instrumental in shaping political activists …

… was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the University of the North (also known as Turfloop), where he continued with … Mr PJ Nefolovhodwe, from the University of Limpopo, [online], Available at …

… on 27 April 1882 in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his … where she distinguished herself as a talented singer. At the age of seventeen, in 1899, she won a gold medal at an … assistant teacher at Gunnusbury High School in London. In the same year she won a scholarship to study singing at the …

… up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) organised an anti-pass campaign that ended in the Sharpeville Massacre . At the age of 15, he joined the …

… Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During this time he had met  J G Strijdom … 1948 he was awarded a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by the University of Pretoria. After completing his studies he …

… on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe , KwaZulu Natal . Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo … such as Congress of South African Students (COSAS) , the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) , the South African Student Congress (SASCO) and Young …

… Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape . In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of fame but, due to the influx control laws, she ended up as a domestic worker. … Margaret Singana , [online] Available at www.rock.co.za [Accessed 13 September 2011] | Margaret Singana …

… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and …

… in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked … and later became a bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port Elizabeth. He became an active trade union activist, and joined the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African …

… Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1950, she …

… an unofficial Muslim appointment from U.P. After attending the Government High School in Moradabad, he studied at … College, Dublin, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold … he was assistant Professor of Indian Economics at the University of Madras, and from 1924 he was a member of …