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… Anthony Holiday had served as a senior reporter on the Cape Times newspaper prior to his … the aim of promoting the policies of banned organisations. Holiday was convicted in November 1976 and sentenced to serve … Anthony Holiday …

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… Norman Pietersen (also known as Billy Holiday) was born in 1966 in Paarl, Western Cape. In 1982, he … country five years after his training. Pietersen lived in a safe house in New Crossroads , Cape Town under the care of … MK veterans believe that Petersen’s death occurred due to a tip off from one of his MK unit members. A call to reopen …

… James Ford was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of … there is no record of him ever showing with the Society.Holiday Time in Cape Town, his major work, was completed in … after 1902, even though he is listed as a member in 1904. Holiday Time in Cape Town supposedly absorbed all of his …

…   Mzwakhe Mbatha was born in 1935 near Umnini Holiday Camp, Natal. Mbatha left school in Standard II. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects such as wooden … was inspired to make non-functional objects by a piece of wood which he discovered in the veld that reminded …

… of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student - was published around the world. Hector was … during the protests. June 16 has been observed as a public holiday in South Africa called ‘Youth Day’ since 1994. …

… (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was raised as a Catholic. Cronin graduated in 1966 from St Joseph's … the underground Communist Party through journalist Anthony Holiday and joined while a student. His aim was to further …

… his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final … compliance with the apartheid system. He joined and became a deacon in the African Dutch Reformed Church in Alexandra … agency to temporarily cover the expenses of a family holiday to Mauritius and when he was expected to repay the …

… told that he was being held at the Brakpan police cells. A police statement said that on 19 November he hanged himself in the Balfour police cell. A post-mortem was held in Springs. Mr Mamashila was a … merchant and owned a fleet of taxis.On his return from a holiday with his family in Cape Town he was told that the …

… 1954. After the death of her father in 1953, she worked as a clerk in the office of the Congress of Democrats , an … In the 16 March 1971 issue of the Rand Daily Mail, Anthony Holiday wrote: ‘So it is back to square one. So Shanthie … She could not talk to her closest friends or go on a holiday. She could not go to Robben Island prison to see her …

… Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), when she was still a young girl. Walt could have easily chosen a comfortable life afforded to middle-class White South … Cape), where she married Alex Walt, whom she met while on holiday. There, she became a psychologist, practicing at the …

… clay that binds’, and referred to the reconciliation after a rift between his father and grandfather. In 1925 Seretse … Africa for his education, and in 1944 he graduated with a BA degree from Fort Hare University College. He then left … 1980. 1 July (his birthdate) is celebrated as a public holiday in Botswana, Sir Seretse Khama Day. Below is Seretse …

… out of his family's oppressed past. His grandfather, a Talmudic scholar, had fled the pogroms in Lithuania to … England but  immigrated to South Africa where he worked as a postmaster in Cape Town. His mother, Minnie, was also a … in Highgate and Summit Lodge, Hampstead, as well as a holiday village in Portugal. He was also the keeper of the …

… Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Sara grew up on a colonial farm where her family most probably worked as … mother died when she was aged two and her father, who was a cattle driver, died when she reached adolescence. Sara … she was buried. On 9 August 2002, Women’s Day, a public holiday in South Africa, Sara was buried at Hankey in the …

… primary school and in Standard Six he went to live with a white missionary couple to continue his schooling at the … Umtata in 1952.  He joined the ANC Youth League while a pupil at St John’s College and held the post of branch … to be declared unlawful.  Upon his release he went on holiday to Engcobo, Transkei but was detained by the Transkei …

… in Grodzisk, near Warsaw, Poland on 16 December 1903. As a young boy Kibel was preoccupied with carving. His father’s … death in 1911 brought sudden insecurity to Kibel as a child. He studied briefly in Poland under the guidance of … evoked a storm of abuse; Hugo Naude invited him to holiday in Worcester where he learned to etch. 1933 Frieda …

… operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a missionary, he was born into very modest circumstances in … Great Karoo. He was one of four sons, one of whom died at a young age due to a heart problem. Learning music and … on 2 September 2001 from a severe asthma attack while on holiday in Cyprus, Greece. …

… and Criminal Justice as well as International Studies. A security industry specialist and risk adviser, Van Staden lost his life on Good Friday, April 2010, after a breathtaking feat trying to rescue a drowning child. At … before the boat returned. The de Klerk family was on holiday in KwaZulu-Natal when the tragedy struck.  Van Staden …

… South African music as one of the jazz pioneers who played a pivotal role in the birth and evolution of our kind of jazz. History will also remember him as the creator of a township jazz evergreen which he composed at a time when … Cape, where he spent 14 years, and later the Ulundi Holiday Inn in KwaZulu-Natal, playing classical and folk …

… in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.  For many years there was a concerted international campaign to withdraw recognition of the organisation as a liberation movement in favour of the African National … with the party was reflected in his decision to take a holiday in Harare during the PAC's local government election …

… , near Pretoria . Her father, P.S. ‘Tottie’ Krige was a land surveyor and her mother, Emmy Bernsmann was the daughter of a missionary and a devout Christian. The Krige's had quite a … Bram and Molly decided to drive down to Cape Town for a holiday and to celebrate their daughter's 21st birthday. On …

… Later in life, he excelled at squash and golf. He was a bright pupil at school; twice he jumped years and he … of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), as a first-year medical student. Two years later, he enlisted … In 1965, shortly after the family returned from a European holiday, his South African passport was confiscated. He was …

… An immigrant from Yorkshire, Jack’s father died in a mine accident. Having to fend for herself and the children as a waitress, Jessy was just able to retain her baby daughter, … Endeavouring to return to Northern Rhodesia from a brief holiday with his first wife Peggy and their 3 children, Jack …

… in Northumberland, England. Her father, J.B. Atkinson, was a mine inspector, and her mother, Jane Atkinson, a militant suffragette. Her mother’s activism most likely had … from studying science. Nonetheless, Dr Palmer introduced holiday classes at Adams College, a taxi transport system to …