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BiographyElize Botha
… born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp , West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She enrolled at the …
BiographyWinston Churchill Masakeng Saoli
… Peace , by jazz musician Dollar Brand. In June 1972, Rand Daily Mail art writer H.E. Winder called Saoli’s fifth … 2015]|Winder, H.E. (1972) ‘Emergent…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
… In South Africa, he worked for the Cape Timesand the Rand Daily Mail. In 1949, Lee-Warden started his own printing …
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
… graduating he worked as nightshift sub-editor on the Rand Daily Mail and the Sunday Times – while completing his …
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… on 17 June 1976, the day after the start of the youth revolt in Soweto. The state accused Mothopeng of having begun …
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
… he was transferred to Modder Bee Prison in Benoni, East Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On 12 June 1986 he was …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… of students arrived to join MK after the 1976 Student revolt, Kodesh was tasked with addressing material needs for …
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… Station panels 1974-75 - University of Stellenbosch, Rand Afrikaans University and Potchefstroom University for … Museum, Durban Art Gallery, Pretoria Art…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
… North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, …
BiographyViola Hashe
… became the first woman regional chairperson of the West Rand region of Congress. In 1956, she was the first woman to …
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
… interested in current events and read extensively from the Rand Daily Mail and the Star . During this period, he became …
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… his opposition. When Basotho rebelled against the Act a revolt broke out in the Drakenberg and other area resulting …
ArchiveBlasts in E Tvl hit pipeline, substation, by Johan Buys, Rand Daily Mail, 23 October 1981
… Rand Daily Mail … Blasts in E Tvl hit pipeline, substation, by Johan Buys, Rand Daily Mail, 23 October 1981 …
BiographyPhindile Mfeti
… volunteer worker organiser, functioning mainly in the East Rand’s metal industry. Early in 1975, Mfeti, together with …
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… Architecture until the school was closed after a student revolt. Lipman was then asked by his close friend Walter …
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… of kwaZulu-Natal), and in 1967 moved to the then Rand Afrikaans University. In 1974 he joined the university's …
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… with tuberculosis for several months at the East Rand Mine Hospital. In August 1958, when he returned to the …
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… description of prison life recounted in the now defunct Rand Daily Mail . Jean Middleton was held in detention for a …
ArchiveMinutes of a meeting held on 25 June 1976, between Officials of the Department of Bantu Education, West Rand Bantu Affairs Administration Board and Representatives of the Urban Bantu Council
… Officials of the Department of Bantu Education, West Rand Bantu Affairs Administration Board and Representatives …
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… Rearmament philosophy that she applied for a job at the Rand Daily Mail. Raymond Louw, the renowned journalist, … first black woman to be employed as a…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
… Mathunjwa got his first job as laboratory attendant at Rand Coal in 1986, earning around R300 to 400 a month. Joseph …
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… of Anderson Ganyile and other leaders of the Pondoland revolt who had been seized in Lesotho by the South African …
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Pretoria bombing a 'crucial warning', Rand Daily Mail, 23 May 1983
… Rand Daily Mail … Air Force operation, Pretoria bombing a 'crucial warning', Rand Daily Mail, 23 May 1983 …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng ), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, … her childhood in Springs, then a mining…
BiographyVilla Baker
… War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan, East Rand Transvaal (now Gauteng ). A month earlier, on 12 …
BiographyNdazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)
… the Classic literary magazine and wrote a column for the Rand Daily Mail. A colleague of Nakasa at the time, …
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… a journalist, first as a reporter on the now defunct Rand Daily Mail in 1941, then as associate editor of the …
BiographyJoseph Alfers
… as a photographer/reporter, and in 1979 moved to the Rand Daily Mail as a photographer. In 1979, Alfers was …
BiographyPule Mabe
… 2013 he was part of a fraud trial where over two-million-rand worth of assets were seized from him and his co-accused. …
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… by the poetry that spoke of black identity, resistance and revolt. In 1969 he was arrested and detained for nine months …