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1853-1902

Cecil John Rhodes

… father, that the business opportunities offered in South Africa would be able to provide Rhodes with a more promising … deeper lying gold fields. The…

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1948-2003

Magwaza Alfred Maphalala

… Trade Unions (COSATU) in 1985. In 1986 he left South Africa to join his wife Nombuso, who had left in 1985 to work … disbanded in the early 1990s. Maphalala…

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1924-2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

… got a scholarship to the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. While there, he joined the African National Congress … his 1996 appointment as Chair of the…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… Mumbai, India, for five years. The family arrived in South Africa from India in 1958. He completed his primary education … Tim Jenkins who had made their way…

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18 May1940-2008

Alan Keith Brooks

… His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he grew up. After … who was one of the leading Marxist…

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1934-2003

Buzwe Stanley Mabizela

… Mxenge.” Mabizela then enrolled at University of South Africa (UNISA), in Pretoria in 1961 to continue with his … the Soviet Union before returning to work…

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1929-2007

Harriet Ngubane

… the third eldest in a family of six that included South Africa's former ambassador to Japan and senior Inkatha … fellow. She was also the first African woman…

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1928-2007

Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)

… apartheid, Masilela and her husband decided to leave South Africa for Swaziland (now Eswatini) in the early 1960s. Once … wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK ), who…

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1925-2008

Nthato Harrison Motlana

… internal resistance that led to the liberation of South Africa, and then co-founded and built up the black … of the National Association of Co-operative…

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1916-2006

Pieter Willem Botha

… Botha's relationship with the Coloured people of South Africa was ambivalent. As Assistant and Acting Secretary of … Internal Affairs, an office he held for…

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1813-1888

João Albasini

… people. Through the links he had established in South Africa, the Portuguese government in 1858 appointed him … tourist access to Albasini’s 1846-1848…

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John Jacques William Aitchison

… of 1963 ). Aitchison joined the Liberal Party of South Africa in 1963 in his second year of studies at the … He is an ordained deacon in the Church of the…

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1909-1972

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

… the mass internal migration of African Americans from the Southern regions. At the universities this led to the … young people from numerous then colonies…

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Sibongile Susan Mkhabela

… Programme (UNDP), United Nations Education Programme in Southern Africa, as well as the South African Council of Churches has … appointed as a member of the…

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the time. … between Head’s parents was forbidden…

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1823-1888

Johannes Henricus Brand

… surrender at Witsie’s Hoek. Early in 1868 they invaded the southern part of Basutoland, killing Posholi. Moshoeshoe … London in 1875 to consider a federal…

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1937

Fanele Mbali

… to follow to slip out of the country. Mbali left South Africa on 8 Jnaury 1962 through Botswana , then into Southern Rhodeisa (now Zimbabwe) into Northern…

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was … Adams College was reputed to be one of the best schools in…

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1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… became a very prosperous commercial centre in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. He was the youngest in a family of five, … intellectual gatherings of the Teacher…

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… Transvaal and the industrial and commercial heart of South Africa (Johannesburg). Consequently, Sisulu took over many of … without trial for two years. The…

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1697-1734

Jan Smiesing

… from Madagascar, South East Asia, South Asia and East Africa as well as mixed race people born at the Cape, the … the Tamil (a people and language from Tamil…

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1928-2011

Dorothy Adams

… of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) in South Africa. Dorothy’s great-grandfather, Francis MacDonald Gow, … nineteenth century, the AMEC…

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1817-1893

Theophilus Shepstone

… with the plans Carnarvon was formulating to federate South Africa. Carnarvon decided to retain Shepstone's services. For … persuading that the Zulu kingdom…

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1817-1893

Sir. Theophilus Shepstone

… with the plans Carnarvon was formulating to federate South Africa. Carnarvon decided to retain Shepstone's services. For … persuading that the Zulu kingdom…

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1907-1983

Michael Guthrie Scott

… of his father’s parishioners, he boarded a ship to South Africa. After arriving in Cape Town, Scott proceeded to … R.A.F. In 1943, his love for the land and…

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1960

Letlapa Mphahlele

… a group of PAC members for Guinea, on the West Coast of Africa to undergo military training. They arrived in Conakry … they spent 12 months. The group…

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1932

Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala

… Rand were only one part of the mineral revolution in South Africa, the other part being the diamond mines, and foreign capital poured into South Africa to…

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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… Cecil John Rhodes to be buried in the Matopos in the then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His father became an engine … of the University of Cape Town…

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1893-1962

Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma

… Tantsi, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa. Tantsi had spent time at Wilberforce University in … Hospital. Xuma’s interest in the…

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1932-2021

James Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo

… to earn the money he needed to go to college. Due to South Africa’s racial policies under apartheid, he was unable to … English and isiZulu in 1956 from the…

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