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… involvement with adult literacy projects during her days as a university student. In 1975 she raised funds and started … from a project based in India. In 1993 SEWA was launched as a body whose purpose was to organize women in the informal …

… to join ANC underground unit.In 1995 to 1996 he serve as deputy director-general for local government in the Department of constitutional development and in 1997 as city manager of Cape Town until unseated by the Democratic …

… mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary school to work as a messenger at a local magistrate's court before going to … industries were also grossly underpaid.  He stressed, as he always did, the need for the unity and collective … he earned a minimal wage, and his rented flat served as the SACTU office for many years. As SACTU was …

… with the contemporary National Party supporters who saw it as a "deurmekaarspul van allerlei uiteenlopende elemente" … Party and the decline of the Hertzog wing. Without this factor. Smuts could not have obtained a majority on 4 … exactly half of the membership of the House of Assembly. As Die Volksblad aptly put it: "Na sesjaar van samesmelting …

… to help make ends meet, and Miriam went to prison with her as she was just 18 days old. She grew up in Nelspruit where … appearances in the films  Come Back Africa  (1957) and as the female lead in Todd Matshikiza’s  King Kong  (1959) … and later dies in prison. The musical, publicised as a ‘jazz opera’, was a big success in South Africa. To …

… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep … and by the middle of the 19th century it was already known as the Slamse Beurt, or the Islamic Quarter. It owes much of … are still in daily use. The Quarter was probably a major factor why the Cape Malay community managed to retain its …

… appears on maps, but it is likely that this is the same as Mgwali that is still near the Mgwali river, and … in 1964. Olive joined the Teachers League of South Africa as soon as she qualified as a teacher. While attending a Spartacus …

… took his family to live on the farm. Veerammal worked as a cook at Tolstoy Farm and Thambi Naidoo was in charge of marketing and sanitation. As she grew up, her father used to tell her stories of the … discriminatory laws and she sometimes spoke at them. As a result, she became politically active. After the  First …

… After leaving school he went to work for  Drum , initially as switchboard operator, but later as a reporter. In 1958 he became an insurance agent. Sibeko … and Carletonville. In 1960 Sibeko returned to Drum as columnist, also reporting for Post (Golden City Post). In …

… There is a strong sense in these letters of Alexander as an admired younger friend of Schreiner’s, in whom she … death. Alexander encouraged her husband to stand as an independent candidate in the elections of 1921 (rather … publications of his wife’s writings, as well as the publication of her Life and Letters. Alexander …

… the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, participating as a volunteer in the Defiance Campaign in Durban and was … of the "Two Sticks" Branch Committee. She earned a living as a hawker. She was one of the leaders against the removals … in the townships. In the same year, Dorothy was elected as Vice-President of the Durban ANC Women’s League and a …

… underground work while she was still in South Africa. As result of her anti-apartheid activity she was arrested by … placed her under surveillance and continued to harass her. As a consequence, she left the country to exile in Botswana … voices of her weeping son during her interrogation as a way of forcing her to break. Gunn was later taken …

… Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the … the best available schooling for their children. Piny, as her friends and family called her, had moved from the … in Durban, helped to organise a rent boycott, worked as an agent for Inkululeko (the CPSA’s newspaper), and ran …

… Malebane-Metsing worked for local government. He began as a clerk before becoming a superintendant of public works … department, and was promoted to the main office to work as a secretary of the mine. Eventually, before leaving, he … conditions. He was forced out in 1976, amid turmoil as youth protests spread from Soweto to the region. His …

… to the global level after Zambia’s independence, serving as chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity from 1970 … he was close to veterans of the liberation movement such as Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Chris Hani and others. He … responsibility or patriotism, distinguished themselves as true ambassadors of South Africa.) Since 1991, he has …

… Second National High Command in 1963 with Wilton Mkwayi as the leader. Mkwayi was one of the 156 accused in the 1956 … of a banned organisation. His trial became known as the "Little Rivonia" as this was the second MK High Command arrested by the …

… Fort Hare. In 1980 he was admitted to the legal profession as an Attorney. He began his active political life when he … African arms deal, and the question of financial benefit as a result of such influence. He concluded his investigation … profession complained that by saying this, he was acting as prosecutor and judge: if there is prima facie evidence, …

… growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the non-racial Market Theatre in … returning to Johannesburg, he supported himself by working as an advertising copywriter while he produced and directed … converted fruit market. There he nurtured dramatists such as Fugard, Percy Mtwa, and Mbongeni Ngema--in spite of …

… medium of printmaking, Mabaso is an artist’s artist. Just as a drawing can be record of the mark-making process that … shows a creative energy thoroughly engaged with the medium as well as the subject. An example of this is his lithographic series …

… 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This was the "native study". The genre emerged in SA at this time as a result of efforts by the likes of Leo Francois to create a school of figure painting as an antidote to the prevalence of landscape. An incentive …

… Council at the university, becoming its president in 1950 as the candidate of the Student’s Liberal Association. In … Groote Schuur Hospital, and the following year was elected as Member of Parliament for Maitland. At age 23 he became the … 1988. During this period he briefly returned to politics as MP for Parktown 1977-80. He continued to serve on the …

… and prints representative of apartheid. They are presented as a child’s colouring book with titles that sarcastically … on Gavin Jantjes’ identity card, which describes him as “Cape Coloured”. He stamps the word “classified” on the … works are displayed in public and private collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of …

… Coloureds in order that they might be able to cooperate as respected allies. The "Malmesbury Convention" repudiated governmental bodies such as the Union Council for Coloured Affairs. Later in the …

… in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff … the Protectorates have somehow by tacit assent adopted it as their recognised national anthem, sung before Royalty and …

… born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa … Congress  (ANC), he first made his mark in 1941 when, as secretary for mines in the Transvaal ANC, he was among the …

… Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart, Germany. As an artist, Strachan worked closely with Selby Mvusi in the … he had little opportunity to truly manifest himself as an artist during the struggle. However, he is now …

… central city. In December 1956 Matlou, sometimes described as a "firebrand", was one of the people arrested on a charge … going north to escape arrest in South Africa or to train as members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the ANC's armed wing. …

… encouraged to experiment by printing etchings in colour, as opposed to colouring prints by hand. Mbatha’s African … adopted by Mbatha’s contemporaries at Rorke’s Drift such as  Dan Rakgoathe  and  Cyprian Shilakoe . Exhibitions: 1976: …

… Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She … Rorke’s Drift. Like Elizabeth Mbatha (q.v.) she trained as a potter in the Ceramic Workshop, entering the workshop in …

… before his death.Although the prisons department terms him as an awaiting-trial prisoner, the South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) kept him on their lists as a security detainee since he was held with other such …