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… 5, 1947. Molobi was imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA). Following his release from Robben Island, he worked for the Munich Re Insurance Company of South Africa as an …

… was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart, …

… Hastings Ndlovu was a fifteen-year-old boy during the Soweto Uprising in 1976 . He is widely believed to be the first boy who was shot dead by police on that day, … an injury to his head from which he died in hospital. The doctor at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital who attended to …

… Terry was an active member of the British  Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) , which was born in 1960 after the Sharpeville Massacre  and succeeded the Boycott Movement of 1959. The AAM was established in …

… Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother in a township on the east rand. When his mother became too ill to take care of … changed his name to Nkosi Johnson. Johnson was thrust into the media when a primary school in Johannesburg refused to admit him as a pupil because of his HIV status. The incident also marked the beginning of his HIV/AIDS …

… SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his … and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years after World …

… He was born into a peasant family near Middledrift in the Cape in 1923, and was the oldest of 13 children. Mkwayi finished the sixth grade, then he worked as a labourer, a clerk, and a …

… He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  He attended part-time art classes at the Natal School of Art, Durban, and he decided to advance … and painting at Heatherleys School of Art, in etching at the Central London School of Art, and in anatomical drawing …

… chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . He was born in Natal in 1918, began …

… in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later opened a grocery store … Township, Johannesburg, and in 1949 became a member of the Moroka Advisory Board. He joined the African National …

… accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the African National Congress (ANC) . She was actively involved in various campaigns and in the organisation of campaigns. Molale was involved in the … ‘Soweto’ supplement, p. 10, The Leader …

… Betty Radford was arrested after the 4 August 1946 miner’s strike, together with, among others, WH Andrews and Moses Kotane . She was the editor of the Guardian newspaper, and the newspaper had shown support …

… her teens, she toured South Africa and then England with the musical  King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced into exile in the United States. …

… at his early teens and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior team in the early sixties. In 1967 he took a contract with an English … His blossoming career coincided with South Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in …

… She was sent to Sweden to study on scholarship from the Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm and Växjö University. Hishongwa … , a novel about a newlywed couple in northern Namibia and the toll that South African rule has on their marriage. It …

… of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid 1980s, Louw’s personal relationships took her into … one of Cape Town’s oldest townships. There she witnessed the heavy-handedness of the apartheid government’s security …

… [i]  From an early age Jana developed an awareness of the unequal society she was born into, stating in her book … injustices, whether these related to Apartheid or to the Indian caste system. [iii]  The family was constantly uprooted because of her father’s … Kahn, T. (2020). Priscilla Jana — the gutsy lawyer who fought tirelessly to dismantle apartheid …

… some sense that somehow my daughter was involved. In 1985 the regime offered all political prisoners, including the Rivonia trialists, release from prison under the specific … that unless he is released from prison in the foreseeable future, his ability to do so will diminish and his very real …

… plant, where he became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council he pressed for a break between black students and the white-led National Union of South African Students. He …

… . Vilakazi was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the University of South Africa and was a prize winner of the … Vilakazi, Benedict Wallet , from the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, [online], …

… her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was originally from Natal (now the Province of KwaZulu-Natal ). Her maternal grandmother had been a sangoma. Masuka spoke later of the spiritual sources of inspiration for her songs that often … She would immediately sing them to somebody else in the house, so that elusive memory was captured. Masuka moved …

… Nkosiyabo Xalabile (30) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2004. On … at scene 2 after being shot in his thigh and buttock by the police. He was the sole breadwinner in the family and left behind his wife, …

… Selby Bangani Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher … and saddler, Ngcobo studied at Adams College, Fort Hare, the University of Natal, and Yale University, where he … 1964 awarded him a Ph.D. in economics. While a student at the University of Natal he took an active part in the  All …

… and attended Durban High School. He studied art briefly at the Natal Technical College. He did his apprenticeship in commercial art at the EP and Commercial Printing Company. In 1929 he went to England and attended the Bolt Court School of Process Engravings and returned to …

… in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a disciple and close associate of Ntsikana, …

… moved to Johannesburg where he began working for the YMCA. In 1968, the YMCA sent him on a trip to the United States where he learned about the political …

… interpreter while obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952 the University of Natal and bachelor of law degree in 1959 from the University of the Witwatersrand,he institute a law practice in 1961 …

… at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale Mission School, where he showed such promise that the missionaries arranged for him to board in Durban so that …

… Bongani Mdze (28) was from Jabavu, Mataliele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2005. He was the first person in his family to work at the mines. On 16 August 2012 Bongani was killed at scene 2. …

… appreciate his son’s love for music and allow him to play the piano. Unfortunately, the piano was chopped up to make firewood one winter. In 1975, Mseleku began his musical career when he played the organ for the band Spirits Rejoi ce. Feeling restricted … musician who escaped apartheid to settle in Britain from The Guardian [online] Available at: www.guardian.co.uk …