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Aug 22, 2019

Alan McLeod Cormack

Scientist, invovled in desiging first CAT-Scan machine and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Pysiology or Medicine

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Aug 22, 2019

John Maxwell Coetzee

"I am not a herald of community or anything else. I am someone who has intimations of freedom (as every chained prisoner...

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Aug 22, 2019

Andries (General China) Chamile

ANC member and 1956 Treason trialist

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Aug 22, 2019

Herbert Hayton Castens

Rugby And cricket player, captain of SA's first rugby team and of SA's first touring cricket team

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Aug 22, 2019

Tim Bruwer

Tim Bruwer manages libraries and arts and cultural services at Moreland City Council in Melbourne. Moreland is a city wh...

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Aug 22, 2019

Alfred Maphanga Duma

Explore this africa item to learn more about South African history.

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Aug 21, 2019

Long live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019

The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Sec...

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Aug 20, 2019

From the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019

Mafika Gwala was a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of th...

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Aug 20, 2019

Johnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019

Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke t...

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Aug 16, 2019

Charles Rawden Maclean (John Ross)

His real name was Charles Rawden Maclean and he had run away to sea at the age of 12.

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Aug 16, 2019

Louis Botha

Boer general and statesman

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Aug 16, 2019

David Ivon Jones

Rabbit hunter, politician and founder member of the CPSA.

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Aug 16, 2019

Potlako Kitchener Leballo

Leader in the Africanist movement and National Secretary in the Pan Africanist Congress, serving as its secretary genera...

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Aug 07, 2019

Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo

Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo was born on April 21,1953 in Soweto,one of nine children,his parents were tenants on a white far...

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Aug 07, 2019

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini

Student leader,in the Soweto student uprising of 16 June 1976

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