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… Richard  Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in …

… Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting homeless children. She laid the foundation of health services in New Brighton location, …

… He developed an interest in politics at a young age and by the age of 16, became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and went into exile in … we Sizwe (MK) in Angola instead, in order to oppose the apartheid government.  The 1980s was a turbulent time in …

… Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up … his high school years in Soweto, Mabasa became aware of the political situation in the country through reading material published by the South … 131-135|Mabasa L. ‘ Socialist Party of Azania,Message from the President ’ from SAweb [online] Available at: …

… got involved in politics, and he was an active member of the struggle against the apartheid government to which resulted in him being exiled from South Africa. He arrived in the UK in 1978, after having spent a year in solitary …

… Sydney Alex Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies invaded …

… messenger, clerk and telephonist. However, for Matthews, the lure of words and the art of expression were fundamental to his being, and his first writings were published in 1946 at the age of 17. Soon he found himself working as a journalist, …

… Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami Zulu or “TZ”) operating from Swaziland . She was in the unit headed by Ayanda Dlodlo that was responsible for the …

… born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where Kumalo herded cattle. Though …

… Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 … in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the youngest of eight children. His father was a Minister and teacher who had left Malawi in 1904 and his mother was the first African woman to teach in colonial Zambia. …

… Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later … family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music director Stanley … him musically, handing him his first harmonica at the age of 17.  Adam however, would only learn to play the …

… Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black township's political upheaval. Sexwale attended St …

… Masana Sam Nzima was born on the 8th of August 1934 in Lillydale, a small village in Bushbuck Ridge, Limpopo Province, Sam grew up on the farm where his father worked and the family lived. While at school Sam had a teacher who had a … Of National Orders , Masana Samuel “Sam” Nzima , from the Presidency, online. Available at www.thepresidency.gov.za …

… Introduction The 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that … in all schools shall be on a 50-50 basis.... In future, if schools teach through a medium not prescribed by …

… him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial discrimination imposed by apartheid which forced … his studies at university. In January 1955 he enrolled at the University of Fort Hare to study medicine. It was while … he was on his way to Fort Hare that he resolved to join the  African National Congress  (ANC). While at Fort Hare he …

… One of the founding members of Afrapix , Lesley Lawson was born in … She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of Natal, Durban, where she did a Bachelor of Science Honours degree. In her first year at the university, she came under the influence of  Dr. Rick …

… David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father … in anthropology.   David became actively involved in the struggle and his first anti-apartheid act was a protest in 1965 at Rhodes University , in Grahamstown . The protest was against the Grahamstown City Council’s …

… Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest …

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

… Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached to a law firm and was then in the public service in Pretoria . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School of Economics. From 1937 until 1964 he …

… Rheinallt Jones was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in … social service. Working with C. T. Loram, he helped found the Johannesburg Joint Council in 1921 and thereafter became the chief organiser of other Joint Councils throughout the …

… 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi – Pedi war. In 1870 he went to work in … missionary education. Four years after arriving in Natal, the Reverend Damon Hlongwana baptised him. The following year, he returned to Pietermaritzburg where he …

… In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy regarding South Africa. … who came to visit South Africa in December 1900, during the  Anglo Boer War . Hobhouse arranged a mass meeting in …

… attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the multinational petroleum industry. That industry … dumped petroleum waste in Saro-Wiwa’s home region, the Nigerian delta, which gave rise to severe environmental … College Umuahia, he won a scholarship to read English at the University of Ibadan. He taught briefly at the University …

… small towns in Argentina, due to her father’s business. The family moved to Brazil  when her father was transferred … and in 1959 went to work for weekly Times of Brazil.The family settled in Brazil and Burton went to study at the Northlands School which catered for English speaking …

… Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed herself in the struggles of people other than her own for the cause of peace, freedom equality and justice. At the time … Presentation Of National Orders , Hélène Passtoors , from The Presidency , [online] Available at …

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles, Gladstone and …

… for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the apartheid era. He was also a brilliant swimmer, and …

… John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, he became a teacher and …

… While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory by … value of their ‘property’ was coupled by concern of future lack, as the tap was being closed on further supply. …