SAHO global search

1910

Stephen Tefu

… to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in  Pretoria  at a time when the party was at a low ebb. Shortly after joining, he became a member of the…

B-0068545

Amos Ndwalane

… was due to be hanged after spending eight years in the Pretoria Central Prison for leading a mission that led to the death of … was scheduled to be hanged…

B-0141660

1986

Clarence Lucky Payi

… September 1986, along with Sipho Xulu and Andrew Zondo at Pretoria Central Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the orders …

B-0076039

1929-2017

Emma Thandi Mashinini

… and spent the next six months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison. After her release from prison in 1982, she … have Followed me all my Life,…

B-0008471

1935-1967

Maqadaza Magushe

… of the Pan African Congress and Poqo . he was executed at Pretoria Central Prison on 30 May 1967 for the murder of Maurice …

B-0149328

1963

Lennox Madikane

… for sabotage in South Africa. They were hanged at the Pretoria Central Prison, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 1 November 1963. …

B-0076021

1935-2012

Abdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood

… by his father to live with relatives in Prinsloo Street, Pretoria. He was admitted to Pretoria Indian Boy's School where he did his education, but … white…

B-0071944

20 January-1967

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)

… was assigned prisoner number V963 and transferred to Pretoria Central Prison, approximately 60 kilometers north of … Between 1960 and 1990, over 2,500 people…

B-0153080

1936-1961

Khuzwayo Joe Mlangeni

… with four others were the first to be executed at the Pretoria Central prison for political reasons. This followed a clash … was one of the first persons to…

B-0148289

1955-1985

Malesella Benjamin Moloise

… was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at Pretoria Central Prison for his supposed role in the 1982 murder of a …

B-0076034

1955

Caesarina Kona Makhoere

… Caesarina Kona Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955. Her father was a policeman and her mother … She then spent two years in Kroonstad Prison, two years…

B-0008402

1933

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

… advised him to become a teacher. Consequently, he went to Pretoria Bantu Normal College at Vlakfontein where he … invited by the Presbyterian Church in…

B-0008601

1942

Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold

… Group). 1961: Queens Art Gallery, Johannesburg (group). Pretoria (Jacaranda Festival), 1963: Gallery 101. Lidchi An … Johannesburg (solo). 1979-80: SAAA…

B-0007797

1930-2008

Walter Sidney Felgate

… Walter Sidney Felgate was born on 19 November 1930 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Felgate graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in 1949. He studied…

B-0008061

1929-2000

Esme Bodenstein

… as a physiotherapist. She was allowed to visit Goldberg in Pretoria Central Prison twice in 20 years before his release in 1985, …

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1940

Johnson Phillip Mlambo

… at Kilnerton. After completing his studies, he worked at Pretoria Pottery Cement in Jupiter in 1958 until his return … in prison. After being convicted, he…

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1934

Abdulhay Jassat

… and imprisoned at both Fort Prison in Johannesburg and Pretoria Central Prison for almost six months. In 1961 he joined the … the doctors told him that the…

B-0008200

1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… area. Mini wrote: ”I am presently awaiting execution at Pretoria Central Gaol having been sentenced to death at the beginning … Wilson Khayinga and Zinakile…

B-0008562

1926-2008

Michael Gagashe Zondi

… (solo). DAM (Art SA Today). 1966 Venice, Italy (Biennale). Pretoria (Republic Festival Exhibition). 1974 UNISA (solo), 1975 Royal Museum for Central Africa,…

B-0009261

1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… education and Lethabo Primary School in Wallmansthal, near Pretoria in 1964. Subsequently, he attended Wallmansthal … due to his political activities. He…

B-0093814

1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… he had an insulting manner, so the chief magistrate of Pretoria came to see him in detention. Nkadimeng remembers … frozen skin began to crack. He was then…

B-0068262

1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… was transported back to South Africa where he was taken to Pretoria Central Prison and spent well over a year awaiting trial. He … to 18 years in prison. …

B-0094432

1939-2024

Breyten Breytenbach

… under the draconian Terrorism Act, he was sentenced in the Pretoria Supreme Court to nine years in prison. Even while in … and the two years spent alone in a…

B-0007886

1922-2001

Sonia Beryl Bunting

… in 1960, she was detained for three and half months at  Pretoria Central Prison  and in 1962 placed under house arrest with …

B-0007900

Mavuso Walter Msimang

… (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the … a personal assistant sued him for sexual…

B-0068145

1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… to a law firm and was then in the public service in Pretoria . He completed a Ph.D. degree at the London School … African mineworkers' strike of 1946 and a…

B-0009059

1953

Nomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha

… at St Aidans Hospital College of Nursing, in Durban Central. From 1980 to 1997, she worked for the then Natal … Languages from UNISA in 1994. In 1998, she…

B-0144798

Mithrasagaran “Murthie” Naidoo

… Prison. The next day he was taken to Swartkop Aerodrome in Pretoria in a light military aircraft. It was a journey he … the entire flight from airsickness…

B-0148745

1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… imprisonment and served the time in the Johannesburg Fort, Pretoria Local and Pretoria Central jails. When was released in 1973, Hirson was …

B-0008159

1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… operating in the township. In the same year Mayekiso was central to the formation of the  Congress of South African … the following year in December he was…

B-0008505