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BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
… Born about 1800, in Zomba, Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The …
BiographyFlorence Matomela
… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising … in Port Elizabeth , she led a demonstration that ended in the…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
… A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives' ……
BiographyHilary Mutch
… family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor at the time. Later in 1943 the family moved back to South Africa. Claire went to … before proceeding…
BiographyDorothy 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…
BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. … As a young girl, Asa (as she was…
BiographyHelen Kies
… where she matriculated. She then enrolled at University of Cape Town where studied where she completed her B.A. in … began her teaching career at Athlone…
BiographyEric Miller
… Eric Miller was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After … a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered the…
BiographyLaurence Neill Nathan
… High School (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford University,…
BiographyAmina Desai
… Congress activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security…
BiographyZondeni Veronica Sobukwe
… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal ), South … nurse at Victoria Hospital in Lovedale, Eastern Cape …
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
… 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her circumstances, further … disputes with their…
BiographyJudith Mason
… Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South African artists. She matriculated from the Pretoria High School for…
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and … he attained a degree in Politics and…
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a…
BiographyJames Smith Morland
… died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804). He came to SA with … him…
BiographySimon Tyeku
… Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…
BiographyFezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)
… not known publicly about Fezekile Kuzwayo. Unfortunately, the event that she is best known for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the secrecy of the…
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
… Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
… Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern … political study groups run mainly by students from…
BiographyBenedict 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…
BiographyAbednego 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…
Samuel Malinga
… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February …
BiographySushila Gandhi
… was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who…
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 …
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
… various jobs since completing school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a … amongst other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…