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BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
… William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in … in order to provide the family with livelihood means. Modisane wrote that: My mother…
Jerry Modisane
… Jerry Modisane …
Jerome Leteane Modisane
… Jerome Leteane Modisane …
BiographyJerry Modisane
… Jerry Modisane …
BiographyJerome Leteane Modisane
… Jerome Leteane Modisane …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… Journalist, short-story writer and actor William (Bloke) Modisane was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Modisane left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile…
Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela
Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus, after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. She…
Henry Eric Isaacs
… president in July 1973, following the banning of Jerry Modisane . Isaacs fled to Swaziland in December 1974 after …
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
… Boys”. These included Lewis Nkosi, Nat Nakasa , Bloke Modisane and Es’kia Mphahlele . Themba also worked for The …
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… writing credits with Lionel Rogosin and William “Bloke” Modisane for the film Come Back, Africa in 1960. Nkosi lived …
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange Free…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… , Arthur Maimane, Todd Matshikiza , James Matthews , Bloke Modisane , Casey Motsisi, Lewis Nkosi , Richard Rive , and … My Wife by Todd Matshikiza, Blame Me…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
… the SASO(SASO) from the start and he was defeated by Jerry Modisane for the presindency of South Africa Students …
William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G
… William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, …
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… Tabane married his wife Thokozani Grace, (aka Nozipho Modisane), and in December 1979 their first child was born. …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… He spent two days under the guidance of Jerry Modisane who was the president of SASO. Soon, together with …
List of South African Artists in Exile
… Heinz Grosskopff Breyten Bretenbach Es’kia Mphahlele Bloke Modisane Keorapetse William Kgositsile Lefifi Tladi – also an … Jordan. Alex la Guma Bessie Head…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… Natal Boyce Baloyi Guru Kistnasamy Frank Hlangwane Mr J L Modisane President of SASO after Sono H E Isaacs General – …
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… have been captured for posterity by Can Themba , Bloke Modisane , Nat Nakasa , Todd Matshikiza , Henry Nxumalo and …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.4 1987
… Lovers by Bessie Head; From Blame Me on History by Bloke Modisane; Capping It All by Lawrence Mpanya; Life at Home by … Sedumedi; Tributes: Bessie Head by…
ArchiveBolt: Magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.2 1970
CONTENTS Isotopes. For women in Trouble, Douglas Livingstone. The Problem of Censorship, C.J.D. Harvey. Marcuse: The Power of Negative Thinking, Rick Turner…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
Author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagon-maker William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba) died in Lovedale, Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga,…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… in 1972 at St Peters College, Hammasnkraal Jerry Modisane - President (1972) Henry Isaacs – Vice President …
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… caught, brewers also lost the product of their work. Bloke Modisane, a resident of Sophiatown, writes of his mother's … and if necessary would go to jail…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The first few …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… with legends like Can Themba, Arthur Maimane and Bloke Modisane. Nakasa was also the first black columnist at The …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of journalists, writers, and artists such as Bloke Modisane, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Maimane, … to provide farms with cheap labour (Ibid.,…
Address at the Opening of The XIII Summit Conference of the Non Aligned Movement 24 February 2003
Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellencies Ministers, High Commissioners and Ambassadors, Distinguished Delegates,…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… Mphahlele 's Down Second Avenue (1959) and William 'Bloke' Modisane's Blame Me on History (1963). Abrahams drew for his …
List of people who died in exile
… Moabi, Justice Mochous, Anita Mojabeng Modimeng, Joyce Modisane, Jerry Modise, Majoba Modise, Peter Modise, Tshepo …