Allan Kirkland Soga was among the founding members of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912, he was the youngest son of Tiyo Soga, the first African in South Africa to be ordained a minister. His mother was a Scot, and he was educated in the Cape and in Scotland, receiving sufficient legal education to be appointed a magistrate. Later dismissed from this position, he was employed at other times as a labour bureau agent and a road inspector in the Transkei.
Hezekiel Sepeng was born on 30 June 1974 in Potchestroom, Western Transvaal. At primary school he began to show the natural talent of a good marathon runner.
Sepeng’s running talent was spotted in one of J.P. van der Merwe’s coaching clinics in the township outside Potchestroom. Knowing that Sepeng’s true potential would be best realised in an environment that nurtured his ability, he was afforded entrance to the only available local place for this: Potchefstroom Boys High School. An uphill battle to register the Black youth in an Afrikaans school eventually succeeded.
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Born in 1936, Theophilus Kgosikobo Musi was a clerk. He taught for a while in a primary school but then had to find employment in Johannesburg to support seven orphaned brothers and sisters.
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Born in 1926, Joseph Mpoza was shop assistant. He played a leading role in Worcester strikes and trade union campaigns.
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Black business pioneer, community leader, altruistic medical practitioner, involved in several education initiatives, former secretary-general of the ANC Youth League, multimillionaire. In the first part of his long life, Dr Motlana played a central role in the internal resistance that led to the liberation of South Africa, and then co-founded and built up the black empowerment company New Africa Investments (Nail), with a market capitalisation of over R10 billion and profits exceeding R300 million by 1999.
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Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton, Lydenburg and he matriculated at Pax College in Polokwane (previously Pietersburg). In 1960 he entered St Peter's Seminary where he was ordained as a Catholic priest in June 1965.
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