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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

Bernard Gcwensa was born in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at Collies School in…

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1966-2012

John Hodgkiss

John Hodgkiss was born on 25 September 1966 in Johannesburg. He studied fine art Rhodes University. Here he also studied under the renowned photographer Obie…

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1938-1999

Ezrom Legae

Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata Legae was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1938. He attended school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied…

B-0008309

2012

Mphumzeni Ngxande

Mphumzeni Ngxande (38) was from Lujizweni, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2008 and lived with his wife at the Nkaneng informal…

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1955

Zamokwake Samuel Gumede

  He was born at Langkloof, Bergville District. As a boy he modelled cattle in clay. He attended the Langkloof Higher Primary School from 1962 to 1969.  In…

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1912-1964

Daniel R Koza

Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed  Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the…

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Wycliffe MIungisi Tsotsi

President of the All African Convention (AAC) from 1948 to 1959. Born in the Transkei, he graduated from Port Hare in 1935 and first taught school, then later…

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1886-1977

Mary Agard Pocock

Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four years later…

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2012

Pumzile Sokanyile

Pumzile Sokanyile (48) was from Mdumazulu Location, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2001. On 13 August 2012 Mr Sokanyile was…

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…

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1904-2002

Ernest Methuen Mancoba

Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a teacher at the…

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1881-1963

Frank Wiles

Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…

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1922-2004

Sheila Cussons

Sheila Cussons was born at the Moravian Missionary Station near Piketberg, Western Cape.  She matriculated at Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria, Transvaal (now…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

Jonas Mosa  Gwangwa  was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

Frederick Timpson I'Ons was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington…

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1939

Wopko Jensma

Wokpo was born on 26 July 1939 in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom, but his studies were temporally…

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1891

Captain Lancelot Andrew Ariba

Captain Lancelot Andrew Elsworth Ariba was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1891. He served in World War I with distinction and late studied architecture in Leeds…

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…

B-0008036

1936

Lionel Davis

Lionel Bazil Davis was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage…

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1949

Norman Catherine

Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo…

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Esmé Berman

Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and…

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1957

Kate O’Regan

Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude)…

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1803-1894

Rev. Aldin Grout

Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to study in…

B-0008127

1954

Reggie Williams

Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…

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1967-1985

Sipho Philip Mutsi

Sipho Philip Mutsi died in 1985 at the Odendaalrus police station, he was the youngest detainee to die in police custody at age 17. He was arrested with…

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Stanley Silwana

Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended…

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1956

Chris Ledochowski

Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school…

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1949

Linda Komape

Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with her…

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1878-1942

Paul De Groot

Paul de Groot was born in Surabaya, Indonesia on 11 January 1878. Paul de Groot received training for the stage at the Toneelschool in Amsterdam. His directors…

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member…

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