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… June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. … a leather-worker by day in a furniture factory owned by the father of Ruth First ,and an unpaid staff member at … Talk and New Age in his off-hours. He helped organize the May Day work stoppage of 1950 in Johannesburg,which was …

… and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an artist. She kept … her influence still sustains him in his quest to express the link between daily life and the ancestral presence. In about 1971, when he took his first …

… Subbiah Moodley is probably the most anonymous of the early uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), …

… died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his father was a builder belonging to the Christian faith, while his mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced the ancient religion of the Zulu people. The missionaries … Malec, J., (2020), ‘Credo Mutwa, 1921—2020, RIP’, from the Johannesburg Review of Books, 25 March 2020, [online], …

… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s. Sympathetic to the Africanist group within …

… Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student  Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the early 1970s, and went on to join the Black People’s … Anon, (2011), News and Events, Rev George Wauchope , from the Queen’s Foundation, 30 May,  [online] Available at …

… Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes … such as utensils and headrests. His work was included in the 1985 Tributaries exhibition with two nyamisoro figures (seated figures of traditional healers). Based on the traditional Tsonga medicine containers, the carvings …

… Madikizela graduated from Fort Hare.  He was a member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA). He taught at Buntingsville.  When the Bantu Education Department took over African schools, …

… C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the National-minded Bloc. He was active as a young man in …

… Gana Makabeni  was born in the Transkei.  He attended a Communist night school and joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s. In 1926 he was elected to the party's central …

… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion joined the American Board for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1833 and … missionaries to undertake missionary work in South Africa. The missionaries and their wives sailed from Boston, …

… leader Jacob de Clercq's group who arrived at Blesberg, in the present-day  Orange Free State , during the  Great Trek  in 1837. He was appointed secretary to the provisional Voortrekker administration which had been …

… One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, … January 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in the 1980s and 1990s, subsequently re-published as … recent collection, Marxism, Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique. Critical Engagements with Benita Parry …

… one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at … career out of boxing. He started his boxing career at the age of 17 when he won the Natal Midlands lightweight title. He again won two Natal … , retrieved March 2015. |Sowetan Live “The Hitters Keep Coming From Malinga Clan” …

… Walter Gilbert Wiles and studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her … by her marriage to Brian Wiles, became a member of the well-known Wiles family who have been artists for several generations and long domiciled in the Knysna region of the Eastern Cape. The style and range of …

… was born on 22 June 1937 in Johannesburg. He attended the University of Stellenbosch. Schoon moved to the University of Witwatersrand to continue with his post-graduate studies. While at the University he joined the Congress of Democrats . In 1964 … Schoon, 61, Is Dead: Foe of Apartheid Lost Family ” in  The New York Times  [online]. Available at  www.nytimes.com …

… As a nurse, in South Africa, she participated actively in the struggle for the rights of African nurses, having suffered the indignities of racial discrimination herself. In 1962, … 2012]| National Orders awards 28 October 2008 , from the South African Government Information , [online] Available …

… April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi . He was the second born son of Mr and Mrs. Musa Kadalie Muwamba.He … schools.After  teaching for a year,he set out to see the world,workin as a clerk in a succession of jobs in  …

… de Klerk was born on 22 July 1903 in Burgersdorp. He was the eldest son of Reverend Willem de Klerk and Aletta … school at Potchefstroom and from 1923 to 1926 studied at the Potchefstroom University College for Christian Higher … politics. From 1925 to 1926 De Klerk was chairman of the Students’ Representative Council. On 11 April 1927 he …

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School from 1967 to 1973. In 1974, she enrolled as a student with the University of Durban Westville. During her studies she …

… his schooling, he completed his national service in the SA Army. While at school, he developed a keen interest in photography. He photographed for the school newspaper and continued his interest whilst serving in the defence force. After two years of national service he …

… Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended … later trained in 1931-1933 as an Anglican Priest.He joined the  Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU) ,1920s …

… Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of Pondoland in Transkei (now Eastern … Wits, Thesis on A.C. Jordan’s novel, Ingqumbo yeminyanya (The wrath of the ancestors, 1940) , pp 12-14| South African …

… Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Prisoners Of Apartheid , A biographical … .p.68 Lele Motaung was tried with eleven others under the Terrorism Act at the Supreme Court, Pretoria, from 10 May 1977 to 7 April …

… was born on 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles William Hendrickse, … both school teachers. Hendrickse was involved in the fight against apartheid for more than three decades, …

… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. … DSG in Kloof in 1997. She pursued a Bachelor of Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and then moved on to obtaining a BA (French, Classics, Media & Writing) at the University of Cape Town in 2006 and a BA Honours …

… 1886**1874 in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a famous sculptor Jan Frans de Vriendt and his … recognition in Europe as a sculptor before he took to the stage. He trained at the Theatre School in Antwerp. He and his second wife, Paula …

… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines around Johannesburg, joined the African Mineworkers … S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under …

… George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher … in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg,then Cape Town. He was chairman of the Coloured Advisory Council, set up in 1943, and was … He was a founding member in 1944 and longtime president of the Coloured Peoples National Union, an organisation that …

… 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and was secretary and chief advisors to Chief Montshioa of the Barolong boo Ratshidi in Mafikeng. Dr Molema was educated …