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1935-2012

Abdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood

… as he was affectionately known was born in India to a family of progressive community activists in October 1935. He … occur. As result of his political…

B-0071944

1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… an interview with Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Mpofu said he and his family lived in abject poverty. His mother Nosebenzile worked … of one of the political activists…

B-0152576

1933

Mildred Lesiea

… her prospective suitors, Mildred was made to leave the family home and  forced to find work. Thus at the age of 16, Mildred started employment as a domestic…

B-0083813

1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… the country. She left for India in 1968 where she and her family were granted full citizenship and they stayed with Yusuf’s family in the remote village of…

B-0007976

1976

William Nomodi Tshwane

… vehicle and was shot dead while trying to escape.The family was only informed of their son's death on 14 October. Lawyers for the family were told that they…

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1924-1960

Ephraim Chaka

… Ephraim Chaka was born in 1924. His family came from Ladybrand, Orange Free State (now Free State … Lekhowa David Chaka, Maniki Chaka and Meiti Chaka. The…

B-0125868

1929

Günther Komnick

… German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of … a meal for three people. At 18 years…

B-0097872

1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… District Six , Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the … particularly since he was forced to change…

B-0008941

1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… whom he had eight children. Later, during the 1950s the family was forcibly moved from Newclare to Naledi in Soweto. … arrested at dawn for treason.  He was…

B-0007863

Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… settled there to escape the regiments of King Shaka. The family later moved on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) in … State, higher up in the Drakensberg…

B-0121675

1940

Mary Maria Burton

… children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in a few small towns in Argentina, due to her father’s business. The family moved…

B-0085586

1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… Landman nee Fortune. In later life Frank recalled that the family were so ashamed of their meagre possessions that when … than racial group basis” at the…

B-0122626

1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… area, the young Timol was schooled at home. In 1949, the family moved to Roodepoort in the Western Transvaal. In 1955, the family moved to Balfour in the…

B-0068942

Violet Weinberg

… trade unions. [9] This was just the start of the Weinberg family’s persecution. The loss of Eli’s job and the need to sustain his family, resulted in him…

B-0095161

1919

Olive Peace Landman

… radical intellectual circles: Minnie Gool – Frederichs’ family were neighbours, Marcina Gool was a friend and Gadija … Olive recalls that she shared a room…

B-0122648

1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought … fought against Mzilikazi. Shortly…

B-0064847

1937-2015

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

… In 1953, at the age of 16, Dinat left school to work in a family-owned bicycle store in Rustenburg. In the 1950s Dinat … childhood and had also come from a…

B-0120698

1944-2017

Buchi Emecheta

… town of Ibusa, where she spent most of her childhood. The family was very poor and the mother did not have a formal education. The family only had enough…

B-0122744

1934

Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga

… himself how to carve. He sold his pieces to supplement his family’s income, but did not make art his primary career … the love of his art’ and need to…

B-0099632

1966

Pule Pheto

… 1966. At The age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and his brother Gibo Pheto were raised. Having been brought up in a…

B-0122712

1906-1982

Walter Battiss

… Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and … and drew and painted since childhood…

B-0007836

1905-1977

Hyman Meir Basner

… at an early age. Basner  and his mother  joined other family members in South Africa in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he … the African Bureau.In 1968 he settle in…

B-0007833

1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… to comply, she returned illegally to live with her family in Langa and in 1957 finally appealed her case … artist Sue Williamson , at the request of Annie…

B-0009054

1940

Ela Gandhi

… supply and no electricity. The Gandhi home was a basic family homestead, a wood and iron house where she lived in … that I had with  Rick Turner , Barney…

B-0008090

1924-1978

Robert Sobukwe

… He made last-minute arrangements for the safety of his family and left his home in Molofo. He intended to give … Aid in the US. He applied to leave the…

B-0009089

1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… was the first boy in the fifth generation of the Lubowski family in Namibia. At the age of thirteen, Lubowski was sent … the relevant co-conspirators"…

B-0008339

1925-1961

Frantz Fanon

… of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His family were descendants of African slaves who had been … of…

B-0098687

1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother … being curious about this”.  By the…

B-0007945

1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

… she was banned, so she became the main breadwinner for the family. She managed to find a job in Vanguard, a small … any charges and kept in solitary…

B-0008735

1884-1953

John David Rheinallt Jones

… and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal reform and social service. Working … two years after his father 's death…

B-0008210