SAHO global search

1986

Blessing Mabaso

… Luvuyo Mgobozi and Mbongeni Zondi on 7 September 1986 on the N2 highway in Durban. The applicants were members of the South African Security Police and the…

B-0077100

1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle … which he worked as salesman,a job that…

B-0008919

1905-1977

Hyman Meir Basner

… in South Africa in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he studied law at the University of Califonia in Los Angeles in  the United States before coming to Johannesburg.He…

B-0007833

Tu Nokwe

… he would encourage his daughters to perform with him. All the children in the Nokwe household were taught how to sing by their mother and she introduced them…

B-0008813

1947-2006

Eric Molobi

… 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…

B-0008625

1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… Sizakele Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities…

B-0071697

1961-1976

Lesley Hastings Ndlovu

… 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…

B-0075872

1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… 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…

B-0009105

1947-2008

Mike Terry

… 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…

B-0068549

1989-2001

Nkosi Johnson

… 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…

B-0096631

1918-1998

Mark Shope

… 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…

B-0009039

1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… 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…

B-0008329

1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

… 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 … chairman in…

B-0068235

1916

Philemon Mathole

… 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…

B-0008485

1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… [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…

B-0120811

1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… 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…

B-0008478

1942

Letta Mbulu

… 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…

B-0067933

1945

Barry “Anderson” Richards

… 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…

B-0008957

1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… 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…

B-0068169

1928-1980

Kate Dinkwetsi Molale

… 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…

B-0067991

Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… 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 …

B-0099833

1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… he completed his higher primary school studies in 1951 at the Charles Max Secondary School. From 1951 to 1958 he attended the Kilnerton Training Institution…

B-0008405

1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… 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…

B-0095589

1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… . 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…

B-0009203

1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… plant, where he became a trade union spokesman, he entered the University of Natal, where as president of the non-European Students' Representative Council…

B-0068237

1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… 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…

B-0007839

1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… 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…

B-0008774

1908-1970

Paul Herman Robinson

… 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…

B-0008962

Ben Khoapa

… 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 ……

B-0073075

Zulumathabo Zulu

… more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics, The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical…

B-0123661