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… Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo , worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)  since her childhood. At the age of nine, while distributing Congress leaflets, she …

… D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church. His strong Afrikaner nationalism …

… Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced mother,he completed most of his school before moving with his mother to the Malay Camp in Kimberly and becoming apprenticed to …

… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called … worked in Johannesburg and they lived in Sophiatown . At the age of seven her mother returned to Mogopa so that the children could attend school in their village. Her …

… Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around … school, he initially wanted to study law, however, when the then Minister of Education Balthazaar Johannes Voster … refused his application, he had no option but to enrol at the University of Cape Town Medical schoolin 1961. At …

… High School in 1976, he became politically active  at the University of the Western Cape . He helped to launch the campus branch of the South  African Students' …

… was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's development program. Raymond Booi, … officer noticed Ntini’s talent while traveling around the Eastern Cape area introducing the game to rural boys. …

… were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the University of Swaziland in 1987 and three years later, an … School, and taught from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 she entered the legal profession as a legal and education officer at the Paper Printing Wood & Allied Workers Union where she …

… Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, Emma … University College in Grahamstown and from there went to the South African College in Cape Town, from where she …

… Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the  African National Congress  (ANC) and the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the late 1940s he served on the CPSA …

… Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of the Native Trade Assistance Union and in 1936, he joined the …

… 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu ( Western Cape ). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), was an … Executive Committee (NEC) member. She was a member of the ANC for more than 30 years. A dedicated educator, …  [Accessed: 09 July 2014]|Motshekga, A., (2014),  The passing on of ANCWL Deputy President Cde Nosipho …

… Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland (AABN). The AABN played an important role in the international … Amsterdam, 1992; G.L. Klein, ‘De strijd tegen apartheid. The role of the anti-apartheid organisations in the …

… Gomolemo Mokae was born in Ga-Mokopane. He was the last of the eight children born of a Methodist minister, Reverend … Province. Mokae's tertiary education was aquired at the University of Natal Medical School, now Nelson Mandela …

… on 11 January 1878. Paul de Groot received training for the stage at the  Toneelschool  in Amsterdam. His directors were two … Groot travelled with repertory companies to the Far East, especially through the Dutch East Indies. He …

… to South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a … with her parents who were English immigrants. In 1902, at the age of 19, Prowse went abroad to study and attended various institutions such as the Slade School and Royal Academy in London and the La …

… as 'Victoria Cobela'.) Mangena received her schooling at the Inanda Seminary (or Lindley's Seminary). Instead of following the teaching profession which was about the only profession open to African youths at the time, she …

… Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts … obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977, at the age of 33, Cobbing came to South Africa and became an active photographer in the Eastern Cape during the 1980s. He joined the photographic …

… his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary of state for war at the beginning of World War I Kitchener organized armies on an unprecedented scale and became a symbol of the national will to win. Kitchener rallies troops at the …

… Natal (KwaZulu-Natal)  on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and … Sugar Mill from 1974 until 1981. Nunn joined  Afrapix  in the 1980s. In 1982 he moved to  Johannesburg  and then went abroad in 1983. Nunn was among the photographers documenting the resistance against …

… was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 … in 1921. He returned to South Africa strongly affected by the Garveyist movement, and his subsequent writings and … his brother, Kennan, Thaele organised a strong branch of the ANC in Cape Town, and by the late 1920s, aided by the …

… Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of Imvo Zabantsundu, and published … some years but eventually left teaching because he opposed the way African history was presented. Mqhayi wrote seven …

… Davis served his compulsory one-year call-up in the South African Air Force as a medical orderly. Thereafter he studied civil engineering at the University of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape …

… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced removal of Botshabelo residents to make way for … firm and became actively involved in politics as member of the Progressive Party, which later became the  Progressive …

… Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the  African National Congress Women’s League  and a leader … from Western Native Township. She was elected into the African National Executive Committee (ANC) Executive …

… Basutoland Lesotho. He was educated at Pietersburg in the Transvaal. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in 1924 and subsequently became provincial secretary for the Orange Free State. With Clements Kadalie, he was one of …

… A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in  Durban , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives' Representative Council in 1937. In 1939 he was …

… where she matriculated in 1928. Kok began her studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and later at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she obtained her MB ChB in …

… Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal … worked as a court interpreter, and served as secretary of the local branch of the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) . He then …

… Berman worked as a stage designer and actress at The Space Theatre in Cape Town. From 1980, she worked as a … news freelance photographer. Community organisations and the resistance press used many of Berman’s photographs. Her photographs were included in the “Culture and Resistance” Festival held in Gaborone, …