"In 1941, Walter Sisulu, then the only Black estate agent in Johannesburg, met Albertina Thethiwe, a trainee nurse. They were to become one of South Africa's most celebrated and enduring couples." - Credit: Toni Strasburg/Villon Films/A South African Love Story
Khanyisile Dhlomo, the daughter of Dr Oscar Dhlomo, SG of IFP was the first blackwoman to read SABCTV1 English news in 1991. She was born in Mbumbulu in 1973, went to Durban Girls'College and Wits. She married Mkhize in 1992. She is now a businesswoman.
"It makes me actually realise with impatience the need to defeat this regime. I don't mince my words when I am speaking about this regime, I hate it intensely." - Chris Hani (1942 - 1993). Credit: Afravision
Mark S. Radebe was a South African music critic, journalist, and activist who was active in the 1930s and 1940s. Writing under the pseudonym "Musicus" for the newspaper Umteteli wa Bantu, he used his platform to advocate for the elevation of African music as a tool for socio-political liberation. Radebe came from a very prominent family in Natal. He was the son of Mark S. Radebe Sr (1869-1924) who with others founded the African independent newspaper Ipepa lo Hlanga (The National Weekly Newspaper, 1894-1904) in Pietermaritzburg. He organized in 1931 the first African Musical Festival later known as the 'Transvaal Eisteddfod'. Radebe was also a producer and music scout for Columbia. Source: Pzacad/Ntongela Msilela Collection
In 1995, students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) launched a campaign known as "Operation Litter" to protest the dismissal of two campus cashiers who were accused of allowing customers to take items without paying.📺 TV 1 /SABC (1995). @AphiweMame
Winnie Mandela gets arrested while staging a protest in downtown Johannesburg calling for the release of detainees on hunger strike, 1991. Credit: Trevor Samson/AFP