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… old age homes in Port Elizabeth called " Autumn Years" and the other on life in the colored townships of Missionvale and Helenvale. In 1990 she won the Santam bursary for art students with four images from the …

… about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African National Congress  (ANC), he first made his mark in 1941 when, as secretary for mines in the Transvaal ANC, he was among the founders of the African …

… father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He was the youngest of three children. He completed his schooling in Pietermaritzburg at the Prestbury Junior School and Alexandra Boys' High School, … degree in political science, economic history and law from the University of Natal. In 1973 he was called up to do his …

… Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal ) on the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and principal. His … As a result there were many interesting debates in the house and Phyllis developed a questioning attitude. From …

… born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South African …

… Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the  African National Congress  (ANC) and for some years the ANC provincial president in the Orange Free State. …

… author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and completed a … Upon completion she went to London to study Drama at the Trinity College. She returned to South Africa and started … writing art reviews for Newscheck, a local magazine with the artist Robert Hodgins who worked as the assistant editor. …

… in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary school at Lovedale … and met P. K. Leballo. In 1949 he was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) in Port Elizabeth by … Mhlaba , who was later sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. Mfaxa taught for a short time and worked …

… ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and his mother, Margaret, was also at the forefront of church’s activities. When World War I broke …

… into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman studied Architecture at the University of Witwatersand. Here, Lipman was inspired by the work of architects such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, …

… mother resorted to running a shebeen in order to provide the family with livelihood means. Modisane wrote that: My mother accepted her life, and I suppose, so did the other shebeen queens; they chose this life and accommodated the hazards. My mother wanted a better life for her children, …

… with both their father and grandfather fighting in the Anglo Boer War , their mother being held in a concentration camp during the war and their father joining the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion . Due to the impoverished …

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while at high school. She studied for two years … to join a newspaper as a journalist.She began writing for the Golden City Post in 1957 and worked for Drum magazine. In 1977 she joined The Voice, in Lenasia, Johannesburg, where she was appointed …

… Gwede Mantashe was born in the village of Lower Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He received a B.Comm degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa) in 1997 and completed … NUM, (2011). Gwede Mantashe-General Secretary , from the National Union of Mine Workers , [online] Available at …

… in Gratten, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed … at Emathafeni High School in Transkei. He also attended the Mount Frere School of Commerce. While attending there he … a limp on his right leg. Madaka emerged in politics during the Black Consciousness era when he participated in anti …

… Ethel Walt was born on 22 November 1925 in Bothaville in the then Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Her … for a life of leisure and privilege while ignoring the realities of apartheid. However, her courage and … forced her to move away from this comfort to fight against the injustices of apartheid. This would lead her to become …

… paternal grandparents in a rural village called Cala in the Eastern Cape. The wall murals Xhosa women painted captivated Sihlali, who tried to imitate the designs but was chastised for engaging in what was … , Fort Hare University Press, Alice.|Sack, S. (1988) the Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of South …

… in Dube Village, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the first born son of the late Collins Molapatene, an attorney and social worker … Matseke and Hwiti High schools. He later enrolled at the University of the North (Turfloop) (now Limpopo …

… from Damelin, a Certificate in Defence Management from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Certificate in Personnel Management from IPM. Shoke joined  Umkhonto we Sizwe , the military wing of the  African National Congress (ANC) , …

… Bartholomew  Moru Hlapane was  born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African National Congress (ANC)and the South …

… Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very conservative … Christian values in their children. They were Baptists, the church at which Steele’s mother had been a long-standing …

… Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of Durban-Westville (now University of … He went onto to complete his B.Sc Masters degree at the University of London. Padayachie joined the underground African National Congress (ANC) in 1972.  He …

… Alex Fattal was born in Austin, Texas. He is the first of two children of Laura and Yacov Fattal. Alex … Area Studies, focusing on Latin America and Africa. The summer of 1998 he worked resettling Cuban, Bosnia and … Summer Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) programme. In the summer of 1999 he pioneered tier two of the SOL program, …

… born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko … in Nebo District in Sekhukhune and a lay preacher in the Methodist church. His mother Reneilwe did not work but was actively involved in the affairs of the church as the leader of Women’s Manyano. …

… Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko … with Nelson Mandela. She may have been averse to being in the public eye, particularly as she was not involved, and had … to be. in political activities. As a result, much of the focus on her life historically, has been that of her time …

… Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy … and Alice (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents were from the town of Ibusa, where she spent most of her childhood. The family was very poor and the mother did not have a formal …

… January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and … father.After his release, Fazzie became instrumental in the formation of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) along … p. 89|Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, …

… most celebrated jazz musicians and a defining voice of the Sophiatown cultural renaissance. The daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic worker, she grew up in Sophiatown at the heart of black urban culture and resistance politics, …

… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His … in South Africa in 1930, he was prohibited from entering the country, as he was not accompanied by any one of his parents. He smuggled his way into the country and went to live with family members in the tiny …

… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of 19 in 1953. … SABC, (2012),  ANC veteran Ellen Lambert dies , from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, [online] …