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… Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition of British painting and internalised to a high degree the style of Augustus John (1878–1961). The latter’s prolific …

… person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist … he was forced into exile in Mozambique, where he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe … politics. When he returned to South Africa he joined the underground ranks of MK in the Natal Midlands Region. In …

… and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and inequalities of Apartheid made a huge … first act of civil disobedience was on 31 May 1971 at the age of 14 when in standard 7 at Paul Roos Gymnasium. School children from all over were bussed in to the Goodwood Showground for the 10 year celebration of the …

… Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg … experiences after he had left school was a spell behind the counter of a store in Duiwelskloof in the former North Eastern Transvaal. Here, characteristically, …

… in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of Communications’ during the Wankie Campaign (July - September 1967). He holds a BSc …

… Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today" … organised by South African History Online, University of the Witswatersrand, The History Workshop, University of …

… Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African Communist Party. Follow the links … to South Africa from England. 1896 Clements Kadalie the future leader of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union … NASA, JUS, 919, 1/18/26, vol.13 – vol.15. Report from the Criminal Investigation Department at Potchefstroom to the …

… mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and settled down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman … secondary schooling. He was deeply emotionally affected by the 1976 Soweto students uprising and as a result he became …

… was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the Kumalo family moved to Evaton, a township south of …

… Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho . She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930 but lost it soon afterwards when it was … up surrounded by cousins and aunts. She began school at the age of seven proceeded to St. Paul's Higher Primary and …

… Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She lived in Johannesburg and worked as the South African photographic correspondent for Reuters wire …

… Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a contemporary and friend of  …

… From the book:  Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … wa Bantu, 29 July 1944. In their spiritual make-up, the Africans exhibit indications of striking affinity to the … Dat knielen doet en bidden." Chapter XII - Conclusion "Rock of ages cleft for me." ”” Hymn "Per omnia saecula …

… 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union , while she looked for permanent … to union documents resulted in her familiarity with the Labour Law and the conditions that were facing workers in their various …

… Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa. At the age of 14 he started playing the accordion. He went to school in Addis Ababa and then …

… Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery …

… Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters and five … High School.   Mokonyane started actively participating in the struggle against Apartheid at the young age of 15. She …

… been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 21 years. Gcina Mhlophe has written many children's … stories and plays. Her writings are published all over the world and translated into German, French, Italian, … schools and universities. Gcina produced and performed in the collaboration CD for children with Ladysmith Black …

… factory where she worked from 1945 to 1956. She joined the  Garment Workers Union (GWU)  under Solly Sachs, and soon became one of its leading figures. Impressed by the spirit of  African National Congress (ANC)  volunteers, she joined the ANC during the 1950 Defiance Campaign  and was arrested …

… Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi Lombard. … Faure received her early education at Eendracht School and the Pretoria High School for Girls.  Faure had a post in a …

… in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows of Table Mountain , her youth was soon to be shattered by the declaration of her beloved birth-place as a ‘white area’. … This biography is a modified extract from the following reference:  “Presidency Communications Research …

… Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a typist for the African Iron and Steel Workers’ Union. By the early 1950s …

… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist and a leader of the  African National Congress  in the Cape. He joined the …

… Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. …

… Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., … in SACPO soon after its founding. In 1961 he was one of the leaders of the Coloured "convention" movement, which organised a widely …

… north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when it was found in 1944. In the 1950s he was very active in the ANC'S unsuccessful campaign to forestall the removal of …

… in 1990 and studied photojournalism from 1993-1994 at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, England, finishing with a postgraduate at the University of Wales, Cardiff. After freelancing for Rex … for local and international newspapers.  In 1999 he became the Chief Photographer at  The Saturday Star  before moving …

… slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. One day in 1884, a Christian lady by the name of Miss Schreiner, who later became Mrs …

… Primary School in 1946 and matriculated in 1954 from the Saint Peters Secondary School at Rosettenville in … Johannesburg. In 1955 he went to Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape. He later moved to the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where he …

… Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due … of funds, converted his studies to a chemistry degree at the same institution, where he lectured for some time after …