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BiographyAndries Treurnicht
… an M.A degree at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a student at the Stellenbosch Theological Seminary until 1945. During these years he was a member of…
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
… with his political activism andbecame a member of the Student Representative Council (SRC) in 1971. When the … also elected as national president of the…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… in the amateur sabotage group, at the time he was a student at Trafalgar high school.he complete his … and an architectual draftman,while also organizing…
BiographyTikkie Sibisi
… College. In 2001 he was accepted as a photography student at the Vaal Triangle Technikon and he is currently …
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
… Nkadimeng skipped the country immediately after the 1976 Student Uprisings to join the ANC in exile. He went to …
BiographyJoseph Albert Mokoena
… from the University of the Witwatersrand. While a student in Johannesburg, he was elected to the first …
ArticleOrganisations involved in Youth and the National Liberation Struggle
… Movement South African Students Movement The South African Student Organisation (SASO) The Black People's Convention African Students Association (ASA) …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… front' of 'churches, civic associations, trade unions, student organisations, and sports bodies' to fight … attended the launch, and 400 of these were…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… Boesak calls for civic organizations, trade unions, student organizations, churches, sports and other bodies to … of the elections, but the campaign is run…
BiographyEdward Sineke Tyaliti
In a letter to the NAD [Native Affairs Department] Secretary dated 14 August 1958, the CM [Chief Magistrate] claimed that [Kaizer] Matanzima was keen on…
Mary Margaret Ngalo
Mary Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon James A. Calata, who was…
BiographyBen Khoapa
… Ben Khoapa first became interested in politics while a student at a boarding school in Lesotho. This continued when …
BiographyMichael Hathorn
… WW2. In 1943 he married Margaret Cormack, a medical Student at Wits, and after the war, decided to do medicine as …
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… It demonstrates the significance of entwined histories of student and labour movements during the heyday of apartheid … had already erupted in South Africa’s…
Potlako Leballo
… the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and enlisted in a … National Congress Youth League in Lovedale…
EventThe constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
The constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president. Other leading…
EventThe constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
The constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president. Other leading…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a new student’s structure was constituted to fill the void. The new … Front…
BiographyMike Terry
… to international peace and security. From his days as a student leader in the late 1960s and for more than 25 years …
Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape
… (known as the Frelimo Trial) of nine BPC and South African Student Organisation (SASO) members. Dr Mokoape was SASO's …
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… revolts was therefore taken by Charterists. Many of the affiliates of the UDF did not support the distant position of … riots. On 30 October about 30…
BiographyPatricia Horn
… adult literacy projects during her days as a university student. In 1975 she raised funds and started a literacy …
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
… became involved in political struggles when he was a student at Lovedale College in 1935. As a student, he was influenced by the writings of Samuel Krune …
BiographyDan Sleigh
South African novelist and historian Daniel (Dan) Sleigh was born on 3 November 1938, on a farm, Geelbeksfontein, near Langebaan in the Western Cape. He was…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… proceeded to Itshepeng Higher Primary. In 1971 he became a student at Morris Isaacson High. He was a passionate reader. … joined the South African Students…
BiographyMadi Gray
… make her promise not to do anything political during her student years. Gray’s father died when she was eleven years … Students . Their demand was that…
Fenuel Mogatusi
… Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 …
BiographyIan David Kitson
… was a member of the South Africa delegation to Youth and Student Festival in Bucharest, Romania. Kitson was drawn into …