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Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng

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Aug 22, 2019

Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng

In summary: lawyer, judge, prosecutor, ordained pastor, academic and Chief Justice of South Africa

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Oct 19, 2019

Sadecque Variava

Political activist, teacher, member of SASO, BPC, PET and AZAPO. Sadecque Variava is a Black Consciousness activist who ...

Ari Sitas

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Sep 19, 2016

Ari Sitas

Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s gener...

Max Coleman

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Feb 26, 2013

Max Coleman

Max Coleman was the Human Rights Commissioner,a businessman .He was married to Audrey Coleman, they had four sons, and b...

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Mar 01, 2012

Jacob Moleleke

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Mar 01, 2012

Eric Ngomane

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Mar 01, 2012

Joel Phoshoko

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Mar 01, 2012

Sonnyboy Mokoena

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Mar 01, 2012

Johannes Spogter

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Albert Newall

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Sep 04, 2019

Albert Newall

Photographer, Painter, Sculptor

Ian Berry

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Feb 17, 2011

Ian Berry

Photographer

Jim Bailey

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Feb 17, 2011

Jim Bailey

Founder of Drum magazine (1950) and The Golden City Post (1955), author, historian, poet and RAF pilot

William Stewart Ainslie

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Feb 17, 2011

William Stewart Ainslie

Artist

Arthur David Bensusan

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Jul 19, 2013

Arthur David Bensusan

Medical doctor, lecturer at Wits University, inventor of the first instantaneous X-ray, photographer, photographic histo...

Wiseman Mbambo

Biography

Feb 17, 2011

Wiseman Mbambo

Sculptor

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