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Mmusi Aloysias Maimane
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Apr 09, 2019

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

Leader of South Africa’s official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA).

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Feb 08, 2019

Yunus Ismail Mahomed

Lawyer, business person and member of the ANC and SACP, Regional Secretary of the UDF (Natal)

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Feb 12, 2019

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

Teacher, exile, member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, organiser for the Teachers League of South Africa, membe...

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Hailu Mergia
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Mar 07, 2019

Hailu Mergia

Musician and Cab driver

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Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
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Mar 18, 2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

Member of the Unity Movement of South Africa, Robben Island prisoner

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Ephraim Chaka
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Apr 03, 2019

Ephraim Chaka

Victim of the Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960

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Gerald Patrick Kearney
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Nov 27, 2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

Teacher, author, director of Diakonia, political detainee, Executive member of the Natal UDF, Chair of the Denis Hurley ...

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David Dabede Mabuza
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Dec 20, 2017

David Dabede Mabuza

David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtai...

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Johannes Henricus Brand
Biography
May 25, 2017

Johannes Henricus Brand

Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State, one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers lef...

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Joseph Chamberlain
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May 26, 2017

Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almos...

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May 26, 2017

Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied l...

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Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
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Jul 05, 2017

Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy

SASO Vice-president for Cultural Affairs, teacher, psychologist, newspaper columnist

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Gordon Sprigg
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May 25, 2017

Gordon Sprigg

Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913) was a British colonial administrator and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in four separate te...

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Feb 21, 2017

Bonakele Mali Khana

Bonakele Mali Khana was one of 616 South Africans that died when the SS Mendi sank in 1917.

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Wim Botha
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Oct 19, 2016

Wim Botha

Artist, Sculptor 

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