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@HistorySAZARPutting faces to history.... #REMEMBERING the forgotten.... Learning from the past
Amina Cachalia and Robert Resha during the Treason Trial in the 1950's. Nelson Mandela can be seen behind..
Henry Nxumalo (1917-1957), the Original Mr Drum. Seen here with his children. Circa 1950's. His journalistic abilities exposed apartheid injustices to the world.
Dr Alfred B Xuma (1893-1962) was an activist, 1st Black Physician in Johannesburg & Pres of the ANC from 1940-1949. He is celebrated for breathing new life in the ANC when he took over. He studied medicine in the USA and Europe. He was a member of the Alpha Phil Alpha fraternity
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) activist, theologian, writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Anglican bishop famous for his work in the anti-apartheid movement
Professor James Thaele (1888-1948) was a prominent leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNISA), ICU as well as the Cape ANC. A close ally of Marcus Garvey. He went to the USA and completed two degrees at the Lincoln University. He returned to SA in 1921.
Oliver R Tambo delivers a fierce speech at the funeral of those killed in the Matole raid. Maputo 8 February 1981
Professor ZK Matthews with some students at Fort Hare University, circa 1940s
The execution of Mampuru II on the 22nd of November 1883 at the Pretoria Central prison. He was stripped naked and hanged in public. The rope broke the first time and he was dragged back onto the gallows to be hanged again.
The generation of the ill-fated 1949 Programme of Action..The original core of early pace-setting freedom fighters..Amongst them were Dr. William Nkomo, Muziwakhe Anton Lembede, William Pitje, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe, Solomzi 'AP' Mda, Rholihlahla Nelson Mandela, OR Tambo et…
Chief Nyabela (1825/30 - 1902) of the Ndzundza Ndebele was serving a life sentence for harbouring Mampuru II and refusing to release him to the Boers. This refusal led to a war between the Ndebele's and the Boers which lasted 9 months.
Interesting indeed. The month of December represents a significant period in the history of the anti-apartheid struggle, that is, both internally and externally. Within the context of this image, it was in Decemeber 1972 that Dr. Dadoo, a key figure in the South African…
ANC and MK veterans Dr Yusuf Dadoo (1909-1983) and JB Marks (1903-1972) on the cover of Dawn. Dawn was a monthly journal of Umkhonto We Sizwe
ANC and MK veterans Dr Yusuf Dadoo (1909-1983) and JB Marks (1903-1972) on the cover of Dawn. Dawn was a monthly journal of Umkhonto We Sizwe
Undergraduate student Doris Daphney Inoshe from Durban studies botany at the University of Fort Hare, circa 1946
From 'The House of Bondage' by Drum Photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990): A small boy squats haunches & strains to follow lessons in a heat of a packed classroom.
"Difficulties are the test of greatness. Cowards shrink from them. Fools bungle them. Wisemen conquer them" - HIE Dhlomo (1903-1956)
Ruth First (1925-1982) was a South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist. She was assassinated by a parcel bomb built by the South African police, in Mozambique where she was working as a University lecturer and for the anti-apartheid movement.
Harold Cressy (1889-1916) was a South African educationist and activist. He was the first 'coloured' to graduate from a South African University. He married Caroline Hartog with whom he had a daughter. He died in Kimberly from Pneumonia aged 27 in 1916.
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