Asa Tokwe🇿🇦
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Alice born, Qonce raised,Bhofolo native
South African playwright, novelist, director and actor Athol Fugard (1932-2025).
The founding President of the PAC, Robert Sobukwe (1924-1978)
South African poet, novelist, artist and short-story writer Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951)
Dr Francis Herman Gow (1887-1968) was born in Cape Town to a Coloured mother & an African American father. He was educated in America & earned degrees at Wilberforce & Miami Universities. He also earned a Doctorate in Divinity from Morris Brown University in Atlanta, Georgia. He…
Alexander Robert Bogue Soga was born on the 3rd of October in 1888 in the Eastern Cape. He was the son of Rev.Dr William Anderson Soga who had studied medicine at the University of Glasgow & qualified as the first Black South African Physician (1883). Alexander also pursued…
Anti-apartheid activist and President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Clarence Makwetu (1928-2016).
Sophiatown big-shots fight for their homes. Businessman JR Rathebe (standing) and Dr AB Xuma (sitting on the right-corner) at a meeting to discuss measures to take to prevent the government bulldozer from demolishing their homes, circa 1957.
AmaXhosa Kings and Chiefs fought colonial wars as early as the 16th century. They laid the path for future generations to struggle for the Xhosa nation and the Eastern Cape. King Sarhili King Ndlambe King Sandile King Hintsa King Ngqika Chief Maqoma just to name the few.
Venus Williams after becoming the oldest WTA match winner since 2004: “I had to come back for the insurance, because they informed me this year that I’m on cobra. So it’s like, I got to get my benefits on” 😭😭😭😭
Don Mattera (1935-2022) on the passing of Robert Sobukwe.
Rev Elijah Makiwane (1850-1928) was an ordained minister (1876), journalist/editor, an advocate for education & women empowerment. He was the editor of the first vernacular newspaper (Isigidimi sa ma Xhosa, founded in 1873).
Nat Nakasa (1937-1965) began his career as a junior reporter at Ilanga Lase Natal at the age of 17. He then joined Drum Magazine in 1957 after his reporting attracted the attention of Sylvester Stein of Drum Magazine. In 1963 he founded a quarterly literary magazine called 'The…
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A forgotten activist, Dr Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan (1920-2016)
KING HINTSA 🖤 Had so much fun bringing this character to life on Shaka iLembe. I love watching the series, so I was really excited to be part of something so iconic! #shakailembemzansi #shakailembe
Ahmed Timol (1941-1971) was an anti-apartheid activist in the Underground South African Communist Party. He died at the age of 29 from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of the John Vorster Square police station.
Tomorrow we are on umhlobo wenene to talk about the my upcoming fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.