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BiographySimon Petros (Peter) Matseke
Simon Peter Matseke was born in Pretoria in 1878, but little is known about his early life except that he was a member of the Bakgatlo tribe. He was drafted as…
BiographyDavid Perumal
David Perumal lived in Derby Street, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and worked at College Clothing in Albert Street. He was educated up to standard six …
BiographyDr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)
Dr Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam) was born in 1906 in Durban. She grew up in Grey Street, with three brothers and three sisters. Along with her…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…
‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, 1902–06 by Jeremy Martens (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2016, Vol. 44, No. 4)
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
Albert Luthuli's Presidential Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orlando, Johannesburg, December 16, 1957 The…
BiographyMaria Laubser
On 14 April 1886 Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of…
BiographyJoseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla
Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla…
BiographyTiyani Lybon Mabasa
Tiyani Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in Soweto.During his high…
BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
Michael Paul Sibisi was born in Umkhumbane Durban on 23 September 1948. He went to Chersterville Secondary School where he completed Standard 9 in 1965. He…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
BiographyNomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela
While in exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From September 1986 to…
Vella Pillay
This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his 80th birthday party held on 18th October 2003 at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London. Vella…
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
Dingane ka Senzangakhona was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela Ngobese who was Senzangakhona's sixth and ‘great wife'. [i…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
Jan Hendrik Steyn was born in Cape Town, Western Cape on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the…
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His…
BiographyNana Sita
Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… of the majority of the human race. The last session of the UNO [United Nations] already demonstrated that the era of … It appears that General Smuts is…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographySindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
Theo Mthembu was born in Newcastle, KwaZulu Natal on 27 February 1927. Mthembu's boxing career started at the age of 16 at Inkamane College in Vryheid, KwaZulu…
BiographyRev George Wauchope
Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the…
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
BiographyPaul Alberts
Paul Alb erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria. He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo…
BiographyCheryl Carolus
Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was employed as a printer’s assistant and her…
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…