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… Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He … Manuel reported that initially many councillors regarded Abdurahman's presence in the chamber as an affront to their …

… Abdurahman Ebrahim Hurzuk …

… Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He … Manuel reported that initially many councillors regarded Abdurahman's presence in the chamber as an affront to their …

… Abdurahman Ebrahim Hurzuk …

… in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in 1885 and married a local Malay woman, Wagieda Ta’al. Yusuf started out as a … He was ambitious to dethrone the aging  Abdullah Abdurahman  as the leading coloured community spokesperson, … brother-in-law of  Cissie Gool  and son-in-law of  Abdul Abdurahman , he was a leader in the unsuccessful challenge to …

… her father was the prominent politician, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman , leader of the African Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped to form in 1902. Abdurahman was also the first black South African to be … degrees from the University of Cape Town, then in 1962 a law degree which she had pursued part-time over years. In …

… In 1905 he graduated from Zonnebloem College with a T.3 certificate, which was the basic requirement for … of Cape Town, was controversial because Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, president of the African Political Organisation … Certificate in 1912. With the encouragement of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, Cressy co-founded the Teachers' League of South …

… Effendi was the first person of colour to graduate as a medical doctor from the University of Cape Town (UCT), … of the influential politician and physician Dr Abdullah Abdurahman - the first black person elected to the Cape Town … established in 1912 through the efforts of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman and the African Political Organisation. The same …

… was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born.  He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near … jobs.First drawn to politics in 1952 after hearing a speech  by Cissie Gool  and her father, Dr  Abdulla Abdurahman , both political activists,he joined the South …

… James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. His father died … for the family. The young Phillips was forced to work as a waiter and garden boy in order to pay for his education at … (APO), the organisation founded by Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman in the Cape in 1902. He was active in the 1946 …

… Institute in Basotholand (Lesotho) where he qualified as a teacher in 1901. He soon gave up teaching and became a court interpreter. In 1908 he began theological training at … to attain Black unity. With the Coloured leader Dr A. Abdurahman  he organised the so-called Non-European Unity …

… read law at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a BA LLB in 1931, six months before his twenty-first … until 1948. Snitcher stood for Parliament  three times as a CPSA candidate and lost on each occasion. He was a founder … life brought him into contact with people like Dr A. Abdurahman , Cissy Gool and the young intellectuals of …

… was there that Plaatje received his only formal education, a few years in the elementary grades. He remained at Pniel … In 1894 he went to Kimberley, where he found work as a postman, continued his private studies, and eventually … He also joined the African People's Organization of Abdul Abdurahman. He made a trip to the Congo to observe conditions …

… East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor (umphakathi) to the Paramount Chief, … Andrew Smith. In 1880 Rubusana left Lovedale to take up a teaching post at the Peelton mission station, where he also … of common objectives. Rubusana was accompanied by Dr A. Abdurahman, leader of the African People's Organisation …

… an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. He was the youngest in a family of five, and still an infant when Asa Martin, his … in Mecca where he was tutored by he famous Shaykh `Abdurahman al-`Alawi al-Maliki (d.1986). Upon his return he …

… Mission Station in Inanda, in the late 1840s. She wanted a clear separation from the traditional AmaQadi way of life. … James Dube (John Dube’s father) himself became a religious minister and became a leading figure in the … Organisation (APO), under the leadership of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman . Dube also urged unity amongst the black …

… an instrumental role in founding between 1943 and 1944. As a theorist he was responsible, with life-long comrades, for … Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. His father, a factory worker, was active in the African Political … Fataar, Edgar Maurice, Cissie Gool, Johnny Gomas and Sonny Abdurahman (Jaffe, 1994: 162-163). It issued a statement …