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1932

Irene Menell (nee Manderstam)

… and South Africa. After matriculating in 1949 at Kingsmead College in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), …

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1867-1946

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

… the institute was a sister school to the white St Andrew’s College. Josiah wanted to qualify as a teacher, and gaining … teaching post at the Amanzimtoti…

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1904-1996

Nokukhanya Luthuli

… year, Miss Clark recommended her to the principle of Adams College, Albert LeRoy, for a teachers training course. Thus, in 1920 she began her teachers…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… jazz piano. After only completing one semester at Berklee College in 1981, he moved back to London and freelanced …

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… private collections. He went on to teach art at Ntuzuma College of Education from 1986 to 1999.  Makhanya found …

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1918-1975

Thomas Patrick Murray

… at Malvern Primary School and the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg, Murray was apprenticed to the …

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… scheme which strove for the creation of a university college for Africans. This eventually led to the …

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South African College qualified as an advocate when he was only 23 years …

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Joel Joffe

… After a Catholic boarding school, the Marist Brothers College, Joffe studied law at the University of the …

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… from the age of 13, and studied geography at St Hugh's College in Oxford. She spent her holidays in Scotland …

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1873-1905

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

… tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale Training College after which he was sent to a Methodist mission school …

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… she was able to manage send Snitcher to the South African College School (SACS). Snitcher taught English to foreigners …

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… brothers studied at Lovedale Institute and Zonnebloem College in Cape Town. Mgijima completed grade five at a local …

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1963

Robert John McBride

… McBride began at Bechet, a (Coloured) Teacher Training College, was elected to the Student's representative Council …

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1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… completed in Kroonstad. He matriculated from St Francis College, Mariannhill, outside Durban, Natal (now …

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1904-1980

S .G. Sekano Ntoane

… Hebron near Pretoria and qualified as a teacher at Adam's College in Amanzimtoti and at the Stofberg Memorial School at …

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1937-2010

Tholakele Madala

… in Kokstad on 13 July 1937. He matriculated at St John's College in Umtata before obtaining a BA degree at the …

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1965

Lesetja Kganyago

… province, with his mother. Kganyago matriculated at Pox College in Pietersburg, now known as Polokwane, and returned …

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William Mothipa (Willie) Madisha

… and then studied to become a teacher at the Transvaal College of Education in Soshanguve, Pretoria North. Madisha …

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1850-1913

Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer

… the Cape Colony. He did his education at the South African College in Cape Town. After completing his studies he became …

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1924-1998

Alan McLeod Cormack

… Degree. He worked as a research Student at St. John's College in Cambridge and met his future wife and American …

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… Athol graduated as a civil engineer from Natal University College. He worked for the South African Railways in Port …

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1953-1982

Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

… moved to South Africa in the 1963,he attended Kingswood College in Grahamstown (1964-1970) where he won numerous …  Badat, S , STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE-…

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1925-1983

Cassim Mohammed Bassa

… and in 1944 matriculated through the prestigious Sastri College. Though his father encouraged him to train as a …

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… and enrolled at an international Correspondence College. In 1977 he joined the African National …

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1954

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

… High School and then at the Manzini Teachers’ Training College. She then enrolled for an MA at the University of …

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1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… Wilson went on to read History and Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge …

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1918-2000

Ismail Chota Meer

… made shirts,and to attend school,graduating from Sastri College in 1939. Meer studied Law at the University of the …

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1950

Biddy Partridge

… in academic spaces, including at the University College of London, the University of Basel and the University …

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1957-2011

Gisele Wulfsohn

… Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the Johannesburg College of Art, after which she joined The Star newspaper in …

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