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… Selbourne, Pretoria West. Her father, Jerry Molokwane, was a herdsman in Romtshinyadi in Balobedu, Limpopo and a third-generation descendent of the Modjadji, the Queen … From 1959, she trained in general nursing at Glen Cowie Mission Hospital and the Pretoria General Hospital (now the …

… his wife. Soon after, the family moved to Golders Green, a suburb in North London. At the age of four Huddleston … his vows in 1941. In 1943 Huddleston was sent to the CR mission station in Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Priest-in-Charge of the CR’s Anglican Mission in Sophiatown  and Orlando, Huddleston ministered in …

… of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) . Proud of his role as a fighter for freedom, Molokoane was scrupulously faithful to … eager to learn through listening and debating. He was a disciplined soldier, concerned with maintaining good health … the country in 1978, he was selected for a reconnaissance mission. When his unit came into contact with enemy forces in …

… in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi – Pedi war. … conference he was appointed to be part of their Swaziland mission, but because of the First Anglo-Boer War , was unable …

… She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal , … and 1895. (Mangena apparently used her father's name for a surname. In all her correspondence she is referred to as …

… of the settlers; his mother was Mrs. William Wright a widow who had three children. The couple had three … with his uncle J.C. Warner, a missionary in charge of the mission at Glen Grey in Queenstown.  The reason for this was … spent the next two years of his education at the Lovedale Mission Institute. At the age of twelve he ceased his formal …

… 1969, to Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When Sampson was 6 years old, … for Afrikan Dream, with the song being ubiquitous on radio stations across the country. Another consequence of the …

… Nosipho Dastile was born in 1938 in Uitenhage , a town in the Eastern Cape . After finishing school, she worked as a community activist as well as a volunteer teacher at a Roman Catholic Mission School. Later, she moved to the Little Flower Primary …

… Born in 1914 Mahlangu was a trade unionist. As a domestic worker, Mahlangu took part in the 1942 anti-pass … sacked. Later he was again victimised after taking part in a strike at a power station. He became a full-time trade …

… was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar workers, and for … threw himself unflinchingly into the work of the External Mission of the African national Congress. As Director of … M. P. Naicker, Director of Publicity of the ANC External Mission, who died on April 29, at the age of 56. The crowd, …

… used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary story of how she … Arabian port of Jeddah. Sold for maize Commander Gissing's mission was part of British attempts to end the slave trade - … The remaining children were placed in the care of a mission of the Free Church of Scotland - but the harsh …

… Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for … childhood was unsettled and harsh. The family moved from mission station in remote parts of the Eastern Cape , until her father was expelled from the mission for supplementing his income by trading. Her mother …

… in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi . He was the … Institute with an honours and at age sixteen he was a qualified teacher, and he was already assigned by Dr. Laws … arrived and settled at Cape Town. He befriended Arthur F. Batty an emerging trade unionist and political activist. …

… students atTurfloop, the University of the North for being a White person illegally in a Black area. He was also arrested for marching illegally on … Winnie Mandela was held and tortured there and for taking a guard dog to Winnie Mandela’s house in Soweto when she was …

…   Bheki Mvulane died in detention on 29 March, 1985. A fellow-detainee of Mvulane said: "I saw a white policeman in Katlehong Police Station fling Bheki …

… Police station operations, 1986, The making of a traitor, by Sarah Sussens, The Sunday Star, 9 November 1986 …

… He survived on support from family and friends and “became a recluse” after Frans Ramaro’s death. His partner, Mngabo … was asked to report at the police station he was seen on a train in Pietersburg. She did not know where he had been banished until a letter arrived a year later. …

… into the South African Defence Force (SADF), and worked at a variety of jobs for two years, with no particular interest … and the ANC coincidentally sent them both on their first mission, to disperse leaflets urging support for the ANC and … the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March. After achieving this mission, managing to distribute hundreds of leaflets by means …

… [Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga], there to reside at a place to be shown to you’ by the [Native Commissioner] NC … on the grounds that theGovernor-General could only banish a person from ‘an area occupied by a tribe,’ and as he lived … said to be a bad influence on the personnel of the Shongwe Mission Hospital, [Mpumalanga]. In 1957, he was permitted to …

… trainiong,taught primary school for three years and made a detour throgh Catholic seminary but was expelled after … Ntoane High School in Soweto,where he became known as a rigorous,critical teacher who encouraged political debates … int the schools as tutors,teachers and speakers.He was a apart time student at the University of South Africa,he …

… who was opposing the state in gaMatlala. He was put on a train and it was only after a year that his partner heard from him. She lived a life of destitution, begging from fellow community members. …

… south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). A quiet and unassuming person, Rabilal was a brilliant student, excelling in both mathematics and … through his socio-welfare and community work. He was a member of the Merewent Ex Students Society, Merewent …

… Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine, was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission in the then-Transkei (now Eastern Cape), into a distinguished Xhosa family. He was the fourth son of Janet … names after the first South African who qualified as a veterinarian, Dr Jotello Festiri Soga. [online]. Available …

… Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale Mission School, where he showed such promise that the … were very limited, the Post newspaper in Johannesburg, a regular user of his contributions, offered him a job. When World War II broke out, Nxumalo – then 22 and …

… Mkhize and his group were sent to Egypt where he underwent a six months military course and then went on to do a commander’s course. The group returned to Tanzania in 1963. … of the ship and the leadership of the ANC abandoned the mission. Mkhize was then appointed a commander of the Natal …

… 1957 and was elected onto the ANCYL's Transvaal executive a year later. During this period he was also involved in the … and was detained on 28 March that year. On his release a few days before the lifting of the emergency, he was … generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfil  it, or betray it ." Joe Nhlanhla died at the …

… 26 September 1936 at Ixopo in southern Natal. His father, a teacher who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until grade 11 when he left to look for work …

… Although art classes were not offered at the Van der Kemp Mission Primary School where he was educated, Pemba developed … into his private world of drawing. In 1924, Pemba won a Grey Scholarship to Paterson School, where he devoured the art books in the school library. As a 16 year old pupil, he entered and won an art competition at …