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… After his death her family moved to Inanda. She was one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. … also a tailor. She stayed in business until 1965 when the Durban City Council forced African businesses to move out …

… Christopher Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled … in London. His family, silk weaving traders, came to the Cape in 1826 and settled in Grahamstown. When he was twelve his father was killed by an elephant in the Addo bush and he was obliged to seek work at Algoa Bay. …

… with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the University of Pretoria while working towards a doctorral … white academic and prominent Christian layman, he joined the Liberal Party in March 1962, after many of its leaders had been detained during the 1960 emergency and after the government had begun to use …

… was born on 12 March 1903 in Vilna, Lithuania. He was the son of Zecharya Alter Abramowich and Rachel Leah Sherman. … with his parents to England where he was educated at the Jews College and the University of London. He was minister of the Shepherd's …

… Ingrid Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape . After her parents’ divorce, Jonker … and gifted beyond her years. She started writing poetry at the age of six and her first published poems appeared in her …

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His … an immigrant from Sunderland, was a shop steward of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and was blacklisted for his part in the 1913 strike. Thomas and his wife, Agnes (nee Borland) …

… 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. The latter was the prime minister of Sweden, a member of the …

… in Middledrift, Eastern Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile Ngcuka. Phumzile Ngcuka became the Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs in Thabo Mbeki’s … Ngcuka. In 1977 Ngcuka completed his B Proc degree at the University of Fort Hare. In 1980 he was admitted to the …

… in Zeerust, he showed leadership qualities by captaining the school rugby team. During the Great Depression of the 1930's he was forced to leave school and seek employment. …

… qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in the Cape for several years, he went to the  Griqualand West  diamond fields and in 1884-1885 accompanied the expeditionary force that annexed Bechuanaland as a …

… Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer.  He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in  Johannesburg . He made his way through the educational channels then open to Africans, going from …

… was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a … who built his following into a cultlike organization for the contesting of seats on the Orlando advisory board. Jailed …

… family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor at the time. Later in 1943 the family moved back to South Africa. Claire went to … Roedean school before proceeding with her studies at the University of Witwatersrand where her mother worked as … thinking about equality and diversity ', from The Guardian , 3 September, [online], Available at …

… their home. He grew up listening to people singing at the shebeen which fuelled his love for music. Mahlasela made … Mahlasela describes a childhood very much oblivious to the many injustices brought on by  Apartheid  in the country. This changed in his late teens, having been …

… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for … understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my experience,  my thinking,  my … London. In 1938, he immigrated to South Africa, and joined the Union Defense Force in 1940. In the Second World War, he …

… exploitation as a child influenced her to take part in the struggle. Primary and High School teachers also instilled a desire to resist and fight the inhuman system in her. She first became involved in … School , where several of her teachers were involved in the Unity Movement and the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department …

… Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the  Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to … and immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape Town in 1925 and was one of the party's activists most strongly in favor of an emphasis …

… (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the Blouberg, about 110 kms from Pietersburg …

… Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a minister …

… and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her career teaching history at schools and was involved in the trade union movement.  She became a member of the Congress of Democrats in her youth, and wrote several …

… born in Gloucestershire, England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In April 1789 he married the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, Georgiana Lennox, …

… Gandhi was born  on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and  Mohandas Gandhi . He had … training centres and Manilal was regarded as one of the first experimental students. Here the focus was on manual labour, character building and some …

… born on 1 March 1953 in Durban, South Africa.  Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and 1976. In 1975 Ngcobo graduated from the University of Zululand with a B Proc (Bachelor of Law), … he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and in 1986 he was the recipient of a Harvard Law School Human Rights …

… born on 15 February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan … Chinese heritage. Rangel began his photographic career in the 1940s. Starting at age 17 he worked as a darkroom … city for several years. In 1952 he began taking photos for the local newspaper NotÁ­cias da Tarde , becoming the first …

… Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on the 2 April 1965, at Charteston Location, Nigel. She completed her junior primary education at the Jabavu East Community School, and then attended St … Senior Secondary School. Following this, she enrolled at the University of South Africa (UNISA) majoring in Education, …

… Molly Blackburn was born in 1930.  She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in Port Elizabeth (PE). Blackburn … 1. Pretoria. HRSC.pp. 21-23| UCT honours Molly Blackburn . The Herald [Online]. Available: theherald.co.za/ [accessed 07 …

… as a child and as a result spent close to four years in the hospital until the age of 6. Manzini’s parents, who were teachers, were both active members of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s. Manzini …

… Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. … As a young girl, Asa (as she was called) used to read the newspaper to her father and from that she started hating the Apartheid Laws, especially the Group Areas Act and the …

… which brought her into contact with people involved in the political struggle. In 1961, dos Santos participated, … graffiti writing and so on, calling for support for the  African National Congress (ANC)  and its leaders, their … November, 1961 dos Santos and Joe Louw were arrested under the Immorality Act . They were charged and went to trial. Due …

… could not afford university fees she accepted a loan from the Transvaal Education Department which was conditional on her teaching after graduation. While studying at the University of the Witwatersrand she took part in student demonstrations … Phyllis Altman” in English in Africa , 15(1): 97-105 | The Guardian, (1999), “ Phyllis Altman: Exiled campaigner …