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… on 12 May 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, … . He also freelanced for publications in Germany, Sweden, the USA and Britain. Nakasa became assistant editor of Drum, and founded the Classic literary magazine and wrote a column for the Rand …

… Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East … London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in the establishment of an African National Congress Youth … in East London in 1948, and ‘in organizing East London for the stay-at-home of 26 June 1950 and the 1952 Defiance …

… Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef family decided to …

… Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but left South …

… Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in … matriculating in 1948.’ He pursed Medical studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1950s, but they were …

… Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student - was … ,[Accessed on: 08 April 2014]|SouthAfrica.info," The day Hector Pieterson died ",From: SouthAfrica.info …

… Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that … But what they did give him he values greatly.   They were the right parents for me, because although they did not have … people in that they wanted their children to choose the right paths.  They were both interested in reading and I …

… Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended … she became politically active as a teenager on noticing the impact the segregation laws had in South Africa. She joined the  …

… Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union movement, Nala worked at the Frame Group textile plant. She described her first day on … Legassick, M. and Ulrich, N., 2006. “White Activists and the Revival of the Workers’ Movement” in The Road to …

… Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education … of Democratic University Staff Associations (UDUSA) and the National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) and served in … NGOs supporting mass and labour struggles. Nzimande joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1988. He has held …

… The Chaukes live in Blinkwater, near Msengi in the Limpopo Province, but very little is known about this … art dealer. Their lack of production would suggest that the family is not dependent on sales for survival and that …

… Born in Uniondale in the Cape, Blaaiberg spent his youth in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending a year at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. As a …

… Mosimane was born on 26 July 1964 in Kagiso Township in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the coach of Mamelodi Sundowns in the Premier Soccer League (PSL). Mosimane is the husband to … Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane celebrates five years with the club (Online) Available at …

… after secondary school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him from enrolling at the university, but he completed a degree via correspondence … African poet: a bibliography . Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Dept. of Bibliography, Librarianship and …

… up in Sophiatown . Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for White students. She later …

… Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has … with poets like Oswald Mtshali and Wally Mongane Serote, the group is often referred to as the ‘poets of the big cities’. These are not Johannesburg, …

… Frank. She graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927. She then taught for three … Her service as an information and welfare officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War , and her subsequent decision to become …

… school, he trained as an architectural draughtsman. During the 1980s, Lombard worked in the audio-visual department of a large construction company … in Wynberg, Cape Town, and through an uncle interested in the art form.   Lombard worked as a freelance photographer …

… on 6 March 1954 in Sophiatown (Johannesburg). He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto We Sizwe … received his military training in Angola, East Germany and the then USSR. He successfully completed the commander’s course in 1977. He then served as an …

… was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's … and teacher's diploma from Fort Hare in 1948. A leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Transvaal in the …

… Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa was born on 9 January 1955 in the Payneville township of  Springs ,  Gauteng  (formerly Transvaal). Forced removals in the area made his family relocate to Kwa-Themba. He spent … in Ratanda, Heidelberg with his grandmother. He attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), Art and Craft Centre …

… Roza van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis … pupil of composition and theory with Rimsky Korsakoff, at the Leningrad Conservatory. After school he studied Architecture at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He furthered …

… donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a … in Vienna, where she reigned as first coloratura of the famed State Opera. "Prima donna" can also indicate a … sometimes even feared by colleagues, but always adored b the public. That was Mimi, too. That she became a celebrated …

… in recognition of a truly extraordinary human being, the late Abdelwahab Elmessiri, who I was fortunate to have … in 2006, just two years before his untimely death at the age of seventy. His distinguished career; his vast range … [vi] The aforementioned statistics are salient as to the future of both South Africa and Palestine. Both have sizable …

… on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin’s family were ardent supporters of the Party’s ideals. Levin studied medicine at the University of Pretoria where he was awarded a scholarship …

… only two years. Enoch Mgijima was born in 1868 at Bulhoek, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys. His … father, Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima, was a successful farmer. The children were brought up as Wesleyan Methodists. … evangelist, for which he gained quite a reputation in the region. On 19 April 1907, while out hunting small game, …

… was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother.  When she was three years old, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), then a … School in Salisbury. She grew up on a tobacco farm in the Umvukwes (now Mvurwi) district in the north of the …

… from Ohlange High School in Inanda and enrolled with the National University of Lesotho for a Bachelor of Arts … Science and Education. After graduating, she lectured at the Mpumalanga Teachers Training College, from 1980 to 1981 … obtained qualifications in Gender policy and planning at the Development Planning Unit at the University College, …

… Oupa Gqozo was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a … five Gqozo returned to Kroonstad where he attended the Phomolong Junior and Bodibeng Senior High School. In 1972 … through correspondence in 1975. While still at the Kroonstad prison he was sent to study at the …

… The Native Affairs Department (NAD) report for 1949-50 noted that ‘in the Matlala Location [Matlala's Location, Pietersburg … District, Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo )] because of the attitude of the Acting Chieftainess”¦much difficulty was … S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under …