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… young age, and began to play piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man with a Horn, Masekela began to play the trumpet, encouraged by anti-apartheid activist Father Trevor Huddleston , who helped him acquire the instrument. At Huddleston’s request, Masekela then …

… on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. His father was an electrician. His parents, … were Jews who had immigrated to South Africa to evade the pogroms, persecution and discrimination Jews were subjected to in the old Romanov empire. At the age of four, Hirson was …

… he joined Afrapix and worked as a stringer for Reuters in the Eastern Cape.  His 1990 photo-essay on a Northern Sotho initiation ceremony, entitled “The savage noble and the noble savages. Photography and an African Initiation”, …

… Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political activist in the Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Thambi Naidoo was the sole breadwinner of the family. His wife and seven …

… born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of nineteen, Boraine started his career as a … Later that year Boraine served as a Chaplain at the University of Natal (now the University of kwaZulu-Natal), and also as … . Accessed on 22 December 2018 The Presidency. (2014). Alex Boraine . Available at  …

… Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the first Black-owned newspaper in 1884, Imvo …

… for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Natal. It was at university that Phaahla became a member of the Students Representative Council from 1979 to 1981. The following year in 1980, he served as an Executive Member …  [Accessed 4 August 2011]|Kha ri Ambe, (2011), The Silent Shaker - Dr Joe Phaahla Is The Right-Hand Man …

… Congress  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security Police in 1971, used her home at 12 Harold …

… South Africa.He attended Durban High School,graduated from the University of Natal in 1961,completed an honors degree at … of South Africa,and later master's degree in sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.His the former Assistant General Secretary …

… In 1984 she gained international recognition when, at the age of 17, she broke the women's 5000m world record. As this performance took place in apartheid South Africa, the world track and field establishment refused to recognise …

… Mosa  Gwangwa  was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then joined the 1950’s band The Epistles as a trombonist. The band helped him gain some …

… in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the early 1960s.  He came to South Africa in 1923 to work …

… Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After … In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the  Bantu World,  working his way up to political columnist, in which capacity he became a supporter of the Africanist faction within the  African National Congress …

… Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade … sugar workers made important gains under his leadership in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young …

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His father was Mantatisi, …

… Benjamin S. Rajuili was born in the Sotho-speaking Matatiele district of the Transkei in 1915, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended Lovedale and Fort …

… Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to Johannesburg as a typist for the Mine Worker’s Union. She got drawn into the plight of the …

… Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei , in the Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa … a qualified social worker with a post-graduate degree from the University of Chicago. In the 1980s Brigalia worked for …

… father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at the height of the depression when he could not find employment. He lived in South Africa for many years, working in the mining industry and served in the South African Air Force … | Forward, J., (2007), Neville Curtis, 1947-2007 from the GreenLeft , 24 February, [online], Available at …

… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). … father died when he was a young boy and his mother died in the early 1940s. Zulu started his primary schooling at … Ladysmith in 1925. In 1926 he was appointed principal of the intermediate school in Umlazi. He held that post for five …

… Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a … Portrait of a People: A personal photographic record of the South African liberation struggle , International Defence …

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He … 1966 from St Joseph's College, then served nine months in the navy and enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he studied philosophy and …

… and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew up and spent his teenage life. … at a construction company as a clerk. He then joined the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO). PEBCO was an affiliate of the United Democratic Front   (UDF). PEBCO established the …

… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of …

… from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955  at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ in the Vryburg district [Northern Cape, now North West …

… Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on the Cape Flats, in Wetton, Wynberg and, Belthorn. In 1980 his … 1982 Goddard enrolled in part time photographic classes at the Ruth Prowse Art School, in Woodstock. From 1985 to 1987, …

… Percival Mdala grew up near King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape. He came to the Garden Route in 1956, where he found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton, the rector of St. George’s. When the Bishop discovered that …

… Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary … Town , where her husband was employed. In 1948 she joined the Langa Vigilance Association and, during the Defiance …

… Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree from the University of Fort Hare in 1937.He was headmaster of …