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The Taung Child

… proving Dart right: early humans did originate in Africa about 2-3 million years ago. Links: …

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1989-2001

Nkosi Johnson

… Johannesburg, aptly named Nkosi’s Haven. Nkosi gave talks about the disease both locally and abroad. In the 13 th …

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Josias Madzunya

… was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, Madzunya came to …

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1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… Churches (WARC) met in Canada. The WARC represented about 150 churches of Calvinist tradition in 76 countries … organization for some 700 organizations…

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

… over  Imvo Zabantsundu,  which he edited until 1940. In about 1925 he joined the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' …

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. …

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… according to Eddie Roux, she married Douglas Wolton about 1925 and together they became prime movers in the …

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1888-1942

Ruth Alexander

… First World War Schreiner became increasingly concerned about not receiving replies to her letters to Alexander, and … to meet, Alexander’s children, and…

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1890-1938

Wilhelmina Louisa Freund

… of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London from 1909 to about 1911. While in London, she befriended Sybil Thorndike … campaign to establish a state…

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1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… development of Dora Taylor. Dora began to write about the inequalities and oppression by the colonial state. She also began to write about the envisioning of…

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1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… for the story carried by his newspaper. The story was about senior politicians, including Botha himself, who hunted … arrested in Durban after the Daily News…

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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola

… the wardens into deep sleep. Unfortunately, information about the plan was exposed when a common law prisoner leaked … Cape Town to meet Mandela. Nothing has…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… in medicine but she soon took up politics. When she was about 13, she became active in the underground Latvian … but she was involved in its organisation and…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… Abdulla Ismail Kajee was born about 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem … in his view only conciliation and compromise would bring about a gradual…

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… Monica’s Home, an Anglican Mission Orphanage in Durban . About 18 months after arriving, expecting to return home for … wrote a short article, ‘Chibuko Beer…

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Boy Seopa

… in Johannesburg. I forced my way out after I complained about the £1.10 that I was earning at the agricultural … his mother was confronted by the Native…

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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

… Sontonga , who also composed the first stanza. Writing about the song in 1934,  D. D. T. Jabavu  said, "Of late the …

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Gaur Radebe

… Gaur Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the …

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… The book was the first of an autobiographical trilogy about growing up in South Africa between the two World Wars. …

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1958

Paul Konings

… of people in District Six , Cape Town. He wrote about these photographs, “It is very difficult to explain …

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1813-1873

David Livingstone

… entirely unknown to the outside world. Available knowledge about Africa’s geography, fauna, flora, and human life was … and Its Tributaries. In this book,…

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1932-2016

Diana Mary Mitchell

… Who's Who”, was used by both sides to inform themselves about Rhodesian oppositional politics at the time [xxvii] . … Ibid. ↵ [ix] Colonial Relic. http://www…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… South Africans to learn what good book production was about, but he also taught them to discover and value their … he soon found out that hardly anything had…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now known as … to his friend’s home. Although his…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… University. Hishongwa wrote Marrying Apartheid , a novel about a newlywed couple in northern Namibia and the toll that …

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1964

Suzanne ‘Zan’ Louw

… 1986–2004: several group exhibitions including About Time: Images of South Africa (Towards a Peoples Culture …

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1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… seeing much of Europe. Abrahams grew up hearing stories about the great adventures his father had experienced. His … booming voice, tinged with disgust…

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1881-1971

Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane

… and ideals. By the end of the 1920s Mahabane was anxious about the growing black following of the communist ideology … Through the ANC he constantly tried to…

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Joel Joffe

… namely, Ahmed Kathrada and Laloo Chiba . “For me, it was about saving the lives of these wonderful people,” Joffe told … the new South Africa. In 2007, Lord…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… used by a Member of Parliament, Mr J. Hamilton Russell, about the enlarged Senate. He attended conferences of the … all he met. One of the many things he was…

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