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1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

Elza Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans…

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1927

Dinah Molefe

Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went…

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1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram

Charles Templeman Loram was born in Pietermaritzburg in May 10 in  1879. He studied at Cambridge,University of Cape Town and at Columbia University, where he…

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…

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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of Imvo…

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1921

Richard Ernest van der Ross

Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was…

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T W Thibedi

Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according…

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1920

Isaac Osier Horvitch

Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…

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1945

Graça Simbine Machel

Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…

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1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

Amos Langdown was born on 7 May 1930, in Plettenberg Bay. He was involved for many years in art education. He trained as a teacher at the Zonnebloem College in…

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1954

Marlene van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954, on a farm in Tygerhoek near Caledon. An outstanding intellectual, philosopher and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk…

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1897-1986

Gertrud Theiler

Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, Emma…

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1952

Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul

Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb an. In 1961 his family was…

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1935

Anderson Khumani Ganyile

Anderson Khumani “Dan” Ganyile’s was born in 1935 in Bizana District, Transkei (now Eastern Cape).  He attended St John’s School in Umtata and then Lovedale…

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1958

Jillian Edelstein

Jillian Edelstein was born and grew up in South Africa. In 1975, after her final year of high school, she took a ‘gap' year and studied in the USA. She…

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1909

Isaac Bangani Tabata

Isaac Bangani Tabata (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After attending Fort…

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Victor V. T. Mbobo

Victor V. T. Mbobo was born in the Cape, he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of the…

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

A chairman of the Orlando African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and elected to the ANC national executive committee in December…

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1954-2007

Thomas Kgope

Thomas Kgope was born on 10 April 1954 in Rustenburg, Transvaal. Kgope met Norman Catherine while he was working as an electrician on the latter's new studio…

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1936-1999

Bobby Hendricks

Hendricks was born in Caledon on 7 February 1936. He started his music career as a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). Later, he…

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Dilizantaba Mji

Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he…

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1929

Peter Papela Nthite

Born 1929, the son of a labourer, he grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. From St Cyprian's in Sophiatown he went to Adams College but left school at 16 to…

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1923-1960

Howard S. Ngcobo

Howard S. Ngcobo was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He…

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2012

Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa

Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene 2…

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2012

Henry Mvuyisi Pato

Henry Mvuyisi Pato (35) was from Mbizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2011. On 16 August 2012 Mvuyisi was killed at scene 2 after being…

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2012

Patrick Akhona Jijase

Patrick Akhona Jijase (26) was from Ntabankulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in July 2012, one month before the massacre. On 16 August 2012…

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1945

Professor Raymond Suttner

Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg…

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1809-1882

Bishop Nathaniel James Merriman

Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom Stanton CR, in South…

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