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1974-2005

Kabelo Sello Duiker

… had to deal with some identity issues in his own life. His great-grandfather had changed his African name to Duiker so …

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1853-1902

Cecil John Rhodes

… esteemed historian Edward Gibbon and his works on the great Roman Empire. Cecil Rhodes as a boy. Source Rhodes fell … this expansive vision of British…

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1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… is probably quite irreconcilable; he is said to have great influence with President Steyn. . . . But my greatest … they offered to enter into a defensive…

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Ishmael Mkhabela

… since South Africa achieved democracy.   Armed with great negotiation and persuasive skills, Mkhabela has even …

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1892-1985

Dr James Sebe Moroka

… Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba … him overseas, MacDonald convinced them that it would be a great…

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1942

Ali Bacher

… time, but the international playing careers of Bacher and great cricketers like Graeme Pollock, Barry Richards and Mike … South African Cricket Union was…

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… Huddleston , welcomed Stein and with the help of another great priest-opponent of apartheid at the time, Canon John …

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Harry Moyaga

… the supremacy of the Northern Sotho deity, Modimogadi, the Great Mother. Though she protects all living beings, provides …

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1798-1853

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius

… the district. He became interested in the planning of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary trip to the …

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1873-1917

Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube

… Nokutela’s courage, self-sacrifice and leadership were a great source of inspiration to many in her lifetime. Thus, …

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… Apartheid. In an attempt to forestall a bloodbath and at great risk to his own standing and credibility, he doggedly …

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1942-1991

Dumile Feni

… the drawing and the sculptures are symbolic portraits of a great leader and a wise and noble man. Dumile succeeded in …

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), “This was a great coup for the young guard of the Nationalist Bloc of the …

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1873-1936

Sidney Percival Bunting

… inadequate, Bunting personally covered costs. He won a great deal of black support through his legal defence of …

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… Jack's first marriage. She has four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. …

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1904-1980

S .G. Sekano Ntoane

… the church in this capacity until 1972. Ntoane did a great deal to further church singing. He organized many choir …

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… universities around the world. She grew up reading the great realists of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction, and … all the unbanned novels of Nadine…

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1914-1998

Archibald Jacob Gumede

… subsequently became the African National Congress, to a great extent influenced Gumede's political views. In 1919, … under the influence of Chief Albert…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… her two daughters Louis and Rene, five grandchildren and a great grandchild. …

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… in her own home. She continued with this until the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918 when she met Eleanor Comber. …

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1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… Laws Campaign and was arrested. Phillips displayed a great love towards music and was passionate about singing …

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Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

… identified De Waal as having ‘displayed a tact and great ability, and [he]evidently leads his party’, and he was …

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… African Unity from 1970 to 1971 and from 1987 to 1988. A great friend of the South African liberation struggle, he was …

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1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… They have 11 grandchildren (one deceased) and five great-grandchildren.In recognition of his outstanding …

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… on he believed that no measure of sacrifice would be too great in the liberation struggle of the 'people of Azania', …

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… continued to function through a decimated NIC. Kajee was a great believer in the policy of compromise. He played a big …

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1918-2011

Judge Erns Jansen

… of this view. Judge Jansen was one of South Africa's last great scholars of Roman Dutch law and one of the most …

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Kenneth Mosenyi

… cars and burning down buildings. Recourse was made to the great wisdom and experience of Lord Harry Balk, that until …

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1934

Moosa “Mosie” Moolla

… to relocate to Bloemhof, a nearby town, following the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mosie did his primary … and excellent work in the liberation movement…

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1901-1975

Vivian Fitzsimons

… of the Transvaal Museum in 1946, a position he held with great distinction for twenty years, creating the favourable …

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