A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who dedicated her life to the fight for racial and gender equality for all South Africans.
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In 1873, the Town and surrounding Area was densely populated with prospectors all hoping to make their fortunes in the second of the Transvaal Gold Fields. It was estimated that in the beginning of 1874 there were some 1500 prospectors working around 4000 claims!
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Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana) was born on 12 December 1928 in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), previously Farm 396, Leeuwkraal. Her father, Abraham Jambo Kekana, who was acting Chief of the Ndebele on three occasions until his death on 6 June 1964, bought Leeuwkraal on behalf of the Ndebele people and later renamed it Kekanastaad.