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… they met once again and as friends became interested in the nationalist movement in India . They met Gandhi in 1925 and also organised a big reception for the Indian Congress leader, Maulana Shawkat Ali in the village Kholvad. But when his father died in 1926, he had …

… various jobs since completing school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a … amongst other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught him the basics of photography and he started working at the Daily Dispatch in East London and later at the New …

… Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of World War II , digging anti-tank trenches in his youth, to spending the end of the war in a Russian labour camp, from the ages of …

… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in … his family to South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the University of Cape Town in 1950, he worked as a surveyor … Institute. Returning to South Africa in 1953, he joined the COD and in 1955 became its secretary for the Cape western …

… South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of the white Native Representatives Council (NRC) in the 1930s, and together with Senator Edgar Brookes helped to … parliamentary debate from one focusing on control of the black population to one concentrating on the long-term …

… Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, and the intersections in between. Her photographs are an attempt … is a time for a visual state of emergence,” she says. “The preservation and mapping of our herstories is the only way for us black lesbians to be visible.” Across her …

… “Kay” Moonsamy was born on 5 July 1926. He was active in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from the mid-1940s onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer of the NIC, and in …

… Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother … Matsemela Manaka and his Creative Youth Association (CYA). The organisation provided participants with a studio to … as visual art. At one point, Hassan designed anemblem for the Creative Youth Association which was featured in the …

… 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph). Matshikiza's father, … Kong, which had an all-black cast. King Kong helped launch the careers of singer, Miriam Makeba, and musician, Hugh … Todd Matshikiza was also a founder writer for Drum, the pioneering, black-led magazine edited by Anthony Sampson, …

… Bloemhof and proceeded to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a … in Holland and obtained a Doctoral Degree with a thesis on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: ( Taal en … benadering). Van Niekerk has lectured Philosophy at the University of Zululand, and later at the University of …

… Lebo Mathosa was born in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to … A. Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African Singer, Dies from The New York Times (25 October 2006) [online] Available at: …

… grew up largely in Tsolo.His migrant father worked in the Western Cape.He began school at age 15,eventually … at Welsh High School in East London where he came under the influence of the deputy headmaster who was an ardent African Nationalist …

… was born on 26 June 1943 in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent in South Africa. Fourie was the son of Petrus Fourie and his Welsh wife, Violet Morris. … and was only thirteen years old when his father died. The eldest son, Martin, who earned but a meager income, took …

… John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing … to work in a tobacco factory. Whilst employed in the tobacco factory, Nkadimeng joined the African Tobacco Workers' Union, becoming a shop steward …

… Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine-handler in the mines in Johannesburg. His father died in 1949 after … on alternative days – one would go to school one day and the other would tend the cattle. Qabula was taken in to live with the O’Rielleys – …

… Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg . She is the daughter of  African National Congress  (ANC) veterans,  … her form 5 and enrolled for an Advanced Level course at the Waterford school in Swaziland . She studied Latin in … Disa, The Torture of Lindiwe Sisulu: …

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League. A son to a farm worker, Mabizela did … Standard 6, he was sent by his father to Mariazel in the Transkei, near the border of Lesotho where he did form …

… Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac Dhlomo, a transport … who ran a fleet of buses.He attended primary school and the Sibusiswe Secondary School at Umbumbulu, and then …

… Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his … in Kenya, and when his parents moved to South Africa in the 1963,he attended Kingswood College in Grahamstown … numerous awards and certificates. In 1971 he enrolled at the University of Cape Town to study medicine. He completed …

… Colenso was She was born in Norfolk, England, in 1847, the oldest child of Bishop John William Colenso of Natal. … death in 1883, she acted as his assistant, helping in the publication of his Digest of Zulu Affairs and in his efforts to protect the Africans of Natal and Zululand against the threatening …

… was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to … relocate to Sophiatown . In Sophiatown, Mashinini attended the Bantu Secondary School, however it was not long after … job working in Henochsberg's clothing factory, and joined the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU) , which was headed by Lucy …

… Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the House of Assembly, and his mother was Elizabeth Frederika Malan. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch (but did not graduate) and the …

… at a place named Vlakplaas in Ga-Marishane. He was the first of three sons born to Manabeng and Dibetle Johanna Mamogobo. The family lived on a farm owned by an absent ‘white’ farmer, where Manabeng was a farm worker. The family also owned a piece of ground on which they …

… a reference to his slight physique since many beverages at the time were sold in a “¼ pint”. During the 1950s, Quarter was a member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and a part of the corps …

… nurse at Victoria Hospital in Lovedale, Eastern Cape . The nurses at the hospital had been involved in a labour dispute with hospital management at the time. She was one of the strike leaders when Mr Robert … B. (2018). Who was Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe? , from The Star online. Available at   …

… from Durban High School in 1965. He then went to study at the University of Natal and received a B.Econ Honours degree … 1970. After receiving his degree he became a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University between 1971 and he helped create the …

… Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a municipal …

… Anna De Koningh was the daughter of Angela van Bengale. She arrived with Angela … Anna de Koning was to make quite a name for herself at the Cape, moving from being a slave to becoming the mistress of that great Cape property, Groot Constantia. …

… de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape . In the early days of her life, her parents moved to Upington . … one bedroom and a kitchen. There was no electricity in the house or running water. Her father was a farm labourer …

… old and he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age of eleven. He then began working for his father, a … exercise his childhood passion for carving and drawing. In the early 1950s he moved to Johannesburg and began working as an apprentice at the Block and Leo Wald Sculpture, Pottery and Plastics …