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Feb 17, 2011

Sobhuza I

Sobhuza I was the first king of the Swazi people as we know the group today. He was born in Swaziland in 1795 and succee...

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Feb 17, 2011

Robert Sobukwe

Teacher, lecturer, lawyer,  Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding...

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Feb 17, 2011

Janet Burnside Soga

Scottish and a wife of Tiyo Soga a South Africa Presbyterian.

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Feb 17, 2011

Tiyo Soga

Writer

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Feb 17, 2011

William Edwart Gladstone Solomon

 

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Feb 17, 2011

Matsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono

Businessman and soccer player

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Feb 17, 2011

Professor Themba Sono

President of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) from 1971 until 3 July 1972 and co-founder of the BPC. Academ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Lucas Ted Sithole

South African sculptor hailed by some critics as Africa’s major Black sculptor

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Feb 17, 2011

Themba Siwela

 

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Feb 17, 2011

John J. Skomolo

Anglican priest, member of the ANC national executive committee,  ANC chaplain,and helped to organise volunteers for the...

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Feb 17, 2011

Ben M. Skosana

Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

Painter and woodcutter

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Feb 17, 2011

Joe Slovo

Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...

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Feb 17, 2011

Charlene Smith

A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Johannes Anthonie Smith

 

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