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2012

Patrick Akhona Jijase

… Patrick Akhona Jijase (26) was from Ntabankulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for … he would either get the pay increase or be dismissed from work.” …

B-0121637

1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… premises of the Gemeentelijke Universiteit of Amsterdam. From the outset his customers were bookish people: academics, … was published by an unknown…

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… He was the prime minister of the Orange River Colony from 1907 to 1910. Abram had married a Scotswoman and Percy … His schooling was at Grey College,…

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1929-2021

Norman Levy

… 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a … to consult together, serving as its first…

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1823-1888

Johannes Henricus Brand

… a parliamentarian who was a member of the Cape elite, and from 1854 the first Speaker of the Cape Parliament.  Brand … degree of D.C.L. in 1845. He was…

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1910-1987

Mattheus Uys Krige

… contemporaries. Indeed, he travelled so extensively that from 1945 until the early 1970s he was probably the most well-known Afrikaans author abroad. His…

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1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… and white.” His father, James Henry Abrahams Deras was from Ethiopia, a son of landowners and slave-owners. He … 1954) At the age of seven his mother…

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1846-1921

James Smith Morland

… England 1846, died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous … instruction at various Cape secondary…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… National Congress (ANC)  and its leaders, their release from prison and a national convention. In November, 1961 dos … to ‘indecency with the intent to…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on the south … Hlanganani’ and urged that cattle…

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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From September 1986 to August 1988, she managed to acquire a … Relations, Potsdam, East Germany …

B-0068250

1917-1978

Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh

… 1954, she was the first Indian woman to receive a bursary from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. In … active. He travels to Bombay to marry…

B-0009065

1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… could not afford university fees she accepted a loan from the Transvaal Education Department which was conditional … she worked with ‘non-white’ ex…

B-0007788

1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… Williams together with his colleague Alan Lipman to resign from any organization that they belonged to. In addition they were prohibited from attending any…

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer…

B-0008117

1949

Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso

… Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at … Italy. He then worked for the SABC…

B-0008497

1897-1974

Victor Poto

… succeeding United Transkeian Territories General Council. From 1937 until 1951 he was a nominated member of the NRC, … Matanzima's  ruling Transkei National…

B-0008909

2012

Michael Ngweyi

… Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin … He was responsible for everything in the household, from groceries,…

B-0121623

2012

Sitelega Meric Gadlela

… Sitelega Meric Gadlela (50) was from Dvokolwako in Swaziland. He began working for Lonmin in … According to his wife, Betty Gadlela, “My husband came from a…

B-0121630

1922-2003

Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker

… of the SAIC. He was a defendant in the Treason Trial from December 1956 until charges were withdrawn against him … the 1960 state of emergency and soon…

B-0068193

1950

Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi

… World Federation of Democratic Youth in Budapest, Hungary, from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he was elected as leader of the … of ANC exiles back to South Africa…

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1888-1942

Ruth Alexander

… she “acquired a more intensive and deeply rooted education from her mother, who had been a teacher of young ladies in … too. Schreiner’s earliest extant…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

… Coloured mother and a Muslim shopkeeper. He matriculated from Trafalgar High School in District Six, Cape Town, after … were actively eroding the inherent…

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1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

… Suppression of Communism Act by the Minister of Justice from attending meetings for six months. He was subsequently … be Gwentshe’s banished. On 6 July 1954…

B-0008137

1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from a working-class family in an impoverished rural area, … journalist, I expect no difficulty in…

B-0008741

1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… and appointed chairperson of the Johannesburg Bar Council from 1972 to 1973. Five years later, in 1977, he was called … of Court). When apartheid collapsed,…

B-0086256

1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… in borrowing books to read. All administration was done from there as well. During the first year she raised funds by … for contributions and in 1921…

B-0009237

1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… Piny, as her friends and family called her, had moved from the nearby boarding school at Mariazell to Lovedale and … had to travel several kilometres daily…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… Biko he said that it was essential to free the black man from his inferiority complex. From then on he believed that no measure of sacrifice would … was…

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