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BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… 1947. He then went on to Fort Hare College in the Eastern Cape, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1950 and a teacher’s diploma 1951…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
… Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘ homeland’ , now Limpopo province. However, …
BiographyAllister Sparks
… settler, with his forbearers having arrived as part of the famous 1820 contingent. Despite his white parents, his … at Queen’s College in Queenstown and…
Annie Silinga
… Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary … Member of the ANC,…
BiographyJames Ford
… was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever showing with…
Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town by Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Moses, Jeremy Seekings
… Growing Up in the New South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in … Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in …
South African Blues directed by Andy Metcalf and Produced by Silvia Davies, Broadcast by the BBC (1990) featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, Robbie Sithole, Jonas Gwangwa
… Andy Metcalf and Produced by Silvia Davies, Broadcast by the BBC (1990) featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, …
Biko, Black Consciousness, and ‘the System’ eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in Practice in a Rural Ciskei Village by Leslie Hadfield, 25 May 2010, South Africa
… Biko, Black Consciousness, and ‘the System’ eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in …
BiographySamora Machel
… Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. Machel ……
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
… was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).In 1947 the … United Nations. (1999). New…
BiographyAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo
… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s…
BiographyVeerammal Naidoo
… Veerammal Naidoo, wife of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo *, suffered greatly because of the repeated imprisonments of her husband, a leading political…
BiographyGerrit Viljoen
… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated ……
BiographyGerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen
… 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of Huisgenoot Magazine. After his family relocated … Former…
BiographyKing Sobhuza I
… Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in … in 1795 and succeeded his father, Ndvungunye, as king of the…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman studied Architecture at the University of…
Alexander Macaulay Jabavu
… Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of John Tengo Jabavu . After studying at Lovedale, he taught … which he edited until…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
… was also born. Mafela’s family moved to Kliptown, south of Johannesburg in 1947. The family remained in Kliptown for five years. In 1952 they … a temporary…
BiographyHarold Rubin
… Roza van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald. At the age of 16, he started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, … pupil of composition and theory…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
… born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three girls. Following ……
BiographyCedric Nunn
… Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and … Sugar Mill from 1974 until 1981. Nunn…
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
… after secondary school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. Apartheid legislation prevented him from … African poet: a…
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
… grew up largely in Tsolo.His migrant father worked in the Western Cape.He began school at age 15,eventually … at Welsh High School in East London where he…
BiographyGreenwood Dumisa Ngotyana
… African National Congress organiser in the Western Cape. Ngotyana was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He came…
BiographyMaria Laubser
… Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she …
BiographyLouis Problem Mkhize
… Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now … SADET, (2001), Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize from The Road to…
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
… Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then … as a child and as a result spent close…
BiographyMatsobane Morris Matsemela
… Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started … his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady Selbourne…
BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
… Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her … DSG in Kloof in 1997. She…