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BiographyBransby Ndobe
… and also to radicalise Coloured farm workers. A member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in its heyday and also of the Communist Party of…
BiographyZola Budd
… In 1984 she gained international recognition when, at the age of 17, she broke the women's 5000m world record. As this performance took … Zola Budd biography…
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
… music group. Zakes Nkosi and Elijah Nkwanyane formed the cornerstone of the mbaqanga style of music. He played with the legendary …
Lionel Morrison
… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 ……
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
… In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
BiographyMaritz Barrymore
… KwaZulu-Natal). He trained as a painter from 1950-1953 at the University of Rhodes, Eastern Cape, where he obtained a BA(FA). In 1954 he gained a Higher…
BiographyLetta 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…
BiographyChris Kirchhoff
… spent many happy hours taking photographs and working in the base darkroom. He has spent the last ten years in private practice as a land surveyor and ……
BiographyAnna Tempo
… she returned to Cape Town . She continued her work with the young girls, and set up a house for them in Napier … with them as well, and convinced many not to…
BiographyTu Nokwe
… Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band … he would encourage his daughters to perform with him. All the…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
… Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…
BiographyWillie Bester
… mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic … sustained preoccupation with apartheid’s legacy,…
BiographyJansie Lourens
… After Barbara Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus , … ‘Soweto…
’Impose Comprehensive and Mandatory Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South Africa, Unesco House Paris, 21 May 1981
… Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at meeting to commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year alliance between Britain and Portugal, London, 20 June 1973
… to commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year alliance between Britain and Portugal, London, …
Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar
… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 131 … Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
… Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His … and his mother English…
BiographyGail Johnson
… Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson , who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 …
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
… Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from … Peter's Secondary School in Johannesburg and…
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
… Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth Technical…
BiographyJoseph Albert Mokoena
… thereafter received, between 1944 and 1959, an M.S. from the University of South Africa, and an honor's B.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University…
BiographyAndrew Tshabangu
… South Africain 1966. Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the Alexandra…
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
… was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of his participation in any of its exhibitions. He most … likely saw no need to exhibit since his work…
BiographyEsther Susanna Mentz
… Mentz studied at the Conservatoire of Music at the University of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she … (Source: E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of…
BiographyNdabenhle William Zulu
… He was born at Nsengeni in the Vryheid district. He attended the Nsengeni Mission School. In 1968 he moved to Emondlo … the international exhibition…
BiographyRamnie Dinat
… Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo , worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) since her … Political activist,…
BiographyVictor Poto
… at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was installed as paramount chief of western…
BiographyJoan Hoskyn Davies
… where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944 she transferred to the Transvaal Archives Depot. In 1957 she…
BiographyMilner Langa Kabane
… Milner Langa Kabane was born in the Transkei. Kabane studied at Healdtown. He was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Fort Hare, … From…
BiographyEdward Clark Churchill Mace
… there, he came to Cape Town in 1901. He served on the British side in the Anglo-Boer War by doing duty at the Cape Town Castle, and … (1844-1893), a former…