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… Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the forties during the anti- Ghetto Act campaign . With the SAIC he collected …

… and Indian trade unionist. He is considered one of the few Indian leaders of his day who attempted to transcend … boundaries with some success and to focus on enhancing the lives of all people. He was not only a man of religion, … His grandfather, Frances Sigamoney was a constable at the magistrate’s court and his father, Emanuel, a waiter. …

… Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Sara … Elizabeth, C, & Davies, B., (2008), Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Volume 1 , …

… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and Agatha Petronella van Ammena. …

… and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the Apartheid government; and it was situated on the slopes of Table Mountain. Daniels had a number of jobs in … Robben Island 1964-1979. (Mayibuye Books; University of the Western Cape. SA)| Daniels, E. A tale of survival: Eddie …

… The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of … church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest the State of Emergency. His interest in photojournalism did not develop any further then, as he left the country within months to avoid doing extended military …

… Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was also a History and Sociology Professor at Syracuse University, New York. As the president of FRELIMO, he successfully promoted a …

… He first learned voice and guitar, before settling on the bass as his chosen instrument. As a self-taught musician, his first official group was the Uptown Sextet and he later gained international … with Joan Brickhill-Burke and Louis Burke’s production of the musical “Meropa” as musical director. In 1975 they …

… Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to … to thirteen years imprisonment in Robben Island for the activities of PAC armed wing Poqo (later APLA) in Eastern …

… Masvingo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He attended the Boys High School, Stellenbosch from 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies in painting at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1951. He qualified with …

… playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.  André Philippus Brink was born on 29 May 1935, in Vrede one of the small towns in Orange Free State. His writing began at …

… Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black township of Guguletu in 1960. Jason's interest in …

… Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree … journalism, from Rhodes University in Grahamstown in 1979. The South African authorities detained her for two months in …

… Reformed minister who was a founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the periphery of organised politics over many years, Tema in 1937 served as chairman of a committee in the Transvaal charged with reviving the  African National …

… African National Congress  organiser in the Western Cape. Ngotyana was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary … union of which he became secretary. Elected an official of the Western Cape ANC in 1951, he also acted as secretary of …

… on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South Africa. By the age of 11 he was excelling at various sports. He attended Northlands High School and studied commerce at the University of Natal. Shaun Pollock's passion for cricket …

… students but before his final exams, Matthews left the university as a statement of protest against the impossible educational methods that black students were … became interested in photography and taught himself with the help of technical books and by viewing the work of other …

… a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered the corporate sector. Frustrated with the media’s misuse of power he left the corporate world in the mid-1980s and joined Afrapix. …

… to English missionary parents. At university he joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). At about this time … approached by a friend who asked him to become a member of the “National Committee for Liberation”, a secret sabotage … from Rhodes University, he worked as a journalist at the Natal Witness , Drum and Golden City Post . In July 1964 …

… and Mosie Moolla later became joint secretaries of the transvaal Indian Youth Congress.In 1952 Desai founded and briefly edited Spark,a youth publication, and the next year received his first banning order,requiring him to resign from 24 organizations. In the late 1950s Desai moved to Cape Town,changed his name to …

… and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under one roof. During the 1950’s, it became the cradle of the first professional … Ezrom Legae. A tribute. The Artists\' Pres s [Online]. Available at: …

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in 1904 and …

… 1985 at Pretoria Central Prison for his supposed role in the 1982 murder of a black security policeman. However, the African National Congress claimed responsibility for the murder and repudiated the claim that Moloise was …

… is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head of the Sociology Department at UCT, a post he took …

… On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a … Zululand student was reported to have died in detention at the Johannesburg Fort after being detained for four days. The law he was being held under was undisclosed.Mr Mashabane …

… born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his … Yusuf started out as a hawker but later branched into the spice trade and wholesaled dried snoek. At the age of nine Goolam Gool was sent to study at Aligarh …

… in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She grew up in the small town of Coligny , Western Transvaal (now North West … Province ) with her mother Martie and father Willem. At the age of 13 she was discovered by her long-time coach, … much of that strength to her religious faith. In 1998, at the age of twenty, Cloete was already an African champion and …

… He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many explosions carried out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto, who … Annexure to indictment, The Supreme Court of South Africa (Transvaal Provincial …

… Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of  John Tengo Jabavu . After studying at … which he edited until 1940. In about 1925 he joined the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  of  Clements … became one of its vice-presidents. He was a treasurer of the Cape Native Voters' Convention, a founder and official of …

… Philosophy from York University. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster established the Society, Work and Development Institute at Wits. He was … Copyright © 2025 - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.  University of …