SAHO global search

1901-1975

Vivian Fitzsimons

… rights and of various charitable organisations in South Africa. In 1903 FW Fitzsimons transferred the various … consolidate the Fitzsimons tradition as the…

B-0149501

1930-2006

Mazisi Raymond Kunene

… campus, a, post that he held until his return to South Africa in 1992.He also worked closely with leading ANC … as a Cultural Advisor to Unesco. In 1993…

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1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… textile workers. In 1955 he assisted in established Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union … of MK’s Natal underground. In July 1962 Mtshali…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… Nettleton and David Hammond -Tooke’s book African Art in Southern Africa / From Tradition to Township. She also authored …

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… author Tlali has travelled the world and represented South Africa in several countries. In 1978 she was invited to an … Between 1989 and 1990, Tlali was a…

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… 1953. His father was from England but his mother was from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He left England for Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the…

B-0094958

1946

Franco Frescura

… lived until February 1956, when they immigrated to South Africa. Papers recently discovered in his father’s estate … soon after by Ravan Press under the…

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… to the north eastern corner of the Republic South Africa. Prior embarking on their mission, Jele had a brief … researched and analysed political developments…

B-0070373

1961

David Hartman

… home. His mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and settled … degree Hartman spent a year travelling…

B-0093704

1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, broadcasting into South Africa, Radebe began studies in law at the Karl Marx … African Communist Party (SACP) structures inside…

B-0064866

1922-1999

Julius Nyerere

… for the progress of socialist liberation movements across Southern Africa (for example in Angola, Mozambique and South Africa). In 1985, after being…

B-0125265

1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… at Morija in Basutoland,where he learned to speak southern Sotho.When his father was unable to enroll him at … Birmingham University in Britain, Jabavu…

B-0008190

1904-1980

S .G. Sekano Ntoane

… of the new church should be the  Dutch Reformed Church in Africa  (DRCA). At the second general synod of the DRCA in … In 1964 the Transvaal Synod of the…

B-0149450

1881-1965

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

… which cover a broad sweep of information about southern Africa, with particular emphasis on the KwaZulu Natal region. … to preserve the vanishing traces of…

B-0007917

1945

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva

… the first time in January 2008. He gained stature in the southern hemisphere, buoyed by economic  growth in his … of the South in the context of the India…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended school in Johannesburg. After school he … 1958, he was one of the leaders of the…

B-0008817

1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended school in Johannesburg. After school he … 1958, he was one of the leaders of the…

B-0068273

Janub Gool

… helping to found the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa, she fled South Africa in 1963 with  I. B. Tabata  and lived in Zambia. In …

B-0149500

1786-1870

King Moshoeshoe I

… the first Black bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Southern Africa. He was the archbishop of Basotholand from 1952. … Potgieter, J. (ed)(1972). Standard…

B-0068108

1952

Ari Sitas

… key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa.  He is a professor and the head of the Sociology … positions. He is increasingly seen as a…

B-0121912

1933

Abdul Samad Minty

… where he completed his schooling. He left South Africa in June 1958, for Britain, to further his studies. His … South Africa and Britain on the defence of…

B-0148455

1954-1979

Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi

… He mastermind and implemented successful missions in South Africa mobilising, spreading the political message and … being part of his contributions towards…

B-0075473

2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… Movement , later to be renamed the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA). After graduating with a teaching diploma, … Undeterred he organised for the…

B-0125716

1940

Yusuf Joe Jacobs

… paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie, who came to South Africa from Indonesia around the 1870s, who worked in the … The formation of the African Peoples…

B-0073817

1933

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

… students from developing countries. On her return to South Africa, Piliso-Seroke worked for the Young Women’s Christian … extensively, addressing…

B-0122528

1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… Kaunda broke from the organisation and formed the Zambian Africa National Congress (ZANC). In 1959, Kaunda broke away … of the Pan-African Freedom movement…

B-0008233

1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… When the ANC, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , South Africa Communist Party (SACP) and other liberation movements … Minister of Public Enterprises of the…

B-0072386

1450-1500

Bartolomeu Dias

… was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa. He also discovered for Europe the south-east trade … Good Hope in late January…

B-0008003

1790-1868

King Mzilikazi

… Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom … was born ca. 1790 near Mkuze, Zululand (now part of South…

B-0068162

1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… (NEUM), later known as the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA) and then the New Unity Movement of South Africa (NEUM). When Dr Limbada returned to Dundee…

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