SAHO global search

1937-2006

Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau

…  (DP), and became a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. She was appointed Minister of Roads and Works and … session in 1978, Sigcau led most of the…

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1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… enemy's newspaper. It got to the stage where nationalist MPs were terrified to be seen talking to Uys in the lobby of … Verwoerd over the removal of the few…

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… joined the ANC together with four other Democratic Party MPs.  As a Member of Parliament, Van Eck was one of the first sitting MPs to join the ANC after the…

B-0009188

1980

Pule Mabe

… Committee Whip at Standing Committee on Finance (National Assembly Committees) 2016 - 2017 Member of Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology (National…

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1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… Asmal was 22nd in the ranking for the ANC's National Assembly, and became a member of parliament. He was appointed … Bill" would have persuaded the relevant…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… the United Party (UP) in Parliament that year. In 1959, 12 MPs, including Helen, broke away from the United Party and … of apartheid at a time when this was…

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1926-1994

Lennox Sebe

… move when he became a member of the Ciskei legislative Assembly and chief Minister in 1973. He got 26 votes to 24 of … made himself a chief. However, he lost…

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1841-1926

John Xavier Merriman

… Party (SAP) delegates to the UK’s House of Commons. MPs from the SAP met in Cape Town in January to draw up the … introduced the closer union resolution in…

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1949-1991

Mhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo

… which his chieftaincy encompasses contained 35, 000 people at the time.He matriculated at Bhekuzulu College for … in 1971.As an ex officio member of the…

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1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… 1973 because he advocated greater autonomy for the Ogoni people. But he achieved considerable success in that decade … state of affairs could not be…

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1985

Klass Makhosana Mahlangu

… enemies also targeted attacks against his supporters and people who live under his chieftaincy. In 1984 he got elected … to KwaNdebele where he was elected…

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1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… the black population. Ballinger focused her efforts on the Assembly. In 1943 she put forward a motion calling for new … Cape . She remained unbeatable as a…

B-0007813

1983

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

… member at Constitutional Review Committee (National Assembly Committees) since 27 June 2019. Shivambu is also a member of the Standing Committee on Finance …

B-0122768

1947

Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy

… government. The restriction of movement, the poverty of people, the suppression of protest, the false mentality of … was assassinated. Soon after Dr Verwoerd…

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1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… in Durban, and then in Johannesburg. He began to invite people like the Reverend Beyers Naudé to speak at the school … on the death of Joseph Mdluli. About a…

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Aubrey Mokoena

… of political activity, and the formation of the Black People’s Convention (BPC) and Black Communities’ Programme. … is currently chairperson of the…

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1939-1997

Enos Mabuza

… Chief Executive Councillor of the Kangwane Legislative Assembly the next year. After the Legislative Assembly was dissolved, he was re-elected to the second…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… in the Soweto Student Representative Council. During assembly on the morning of 16 June at Morris Isaacson High … Amphitheatre Stadium in Jabulani, Soweto,…

B-0008474

1923

Lucas Manyane Mangope

… council,then chief minister of Bophuthatswana legislative assembly three years later.Mangope moved unilaterally in 1974 … when arsonist set fire to the…

B-0141685

1957-1990

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… in the Soweto Student Representative Council. During assembly on the morning of 16 June at Morris Isaacson High … Amphitheatre Stadium in Jabulani, Soweto,…

B-0141698

1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… 1990 Nefolovhodwe was elected president of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO). In 1992 he was elected as the … In 1994, Nefolovhodwe became the…

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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… joined politics and devoted his time to organizing the people as an activist of the  African National Congress … On 30 October 1985 Makhathini addressed the…

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1907-1983

Michael Guthrie Scott

… from the R.A.F. In 1943, his love for the land and people of South Africa led him to return.In South Africa he … charged with four counts of trespass, one…

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1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… students and migrant workers founded the Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC) on 2 August 1957 at a barbershop … 35 Somerset Road, Green Point in Cape Town…

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… Ramohanoe became leader of the National-minded Bloc, then existing in little but name, when  Selope Thema  died in 1955. …

B-0008937

1913-1999

de Villiers Graaff

… UP parliamentary speeches - especially by the 1953 crop of MPs - were prophetic in their dissection of why apartheid …

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… was unanimously chosen by a national meeting of the Thembu people (September 1929) because his mother outranked the … in the 1963 elections to the Transkei…

B-0088575

1925-2020

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

… National Congress (ANC). During the  Congress of the People  he was a branch delegate at Kliptown. Mlangeni became … All that the Government has done is to…

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1923

Dr Hassen (Ike) Mahomed Moosa

… Action Council (FAC) and vice-president of the Cape Indian Assembly. … Action Council and Vice-President of the Cape Indian Assembly …

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Alois Mate

… to appear in court on charges of holding an unlawful assembly in contravention’ of an 1886 law, but the summonses ‘were ignored by the people on whom they…

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