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1921-2009

Livingstone Mqotsi

… the following degrees: B.A. and B.A. (Hons) at Fort Hare (1948), UED at Rhodes (1951) and an MA at the University of …

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1929-2000

Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty

Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… from Vryburg. She left Dithakwaneng after three years. In 1948, her mother was not very well so she decided to get a …

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1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… In 1954, he married Anna, H F Verwoerd’s daughter. In 1948 he was awarded a BA, and in 1951 a B Divinitatis by the …

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… National Party with its policy of apartheid, to power in 1948, and  Lumumba  (speculating about who murdered the …

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1931-1998

Justice John Mowbray Didcott

… outside Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1948, he went to the University of Cape Town where he …

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1908-1984

Frederick Hutchinson Page

… with the Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts from 1948. He held his first solo exhibition in 1960, followed by …

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… outspoken Congressman in Washington. Few weeks after his election, he called for Congressional investigations into …

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… outspoken Congressman in Washington. Few weeks after his election, he called for Congressional investigations into …

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1956

Susan Shabangu

… in the voter education programme with COSATU's national election task team aimed at workers during the election campaign. Shabangu was involved in the…

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1923-1986

Moses Mabhida

… union federations. In 1963, however, following his re-election to the NEC at the ANC's Lobatse conference in … later served as the commander of MK. Mabhida's…

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1954-2019

Paul Grendon

“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…

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1985

Klass Makhosana Mahlangu

He is originally from the Ndzundza-Mabhoko tribe. He married Nonhlanhla Zulu, sister of the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini which made him gain the title of…

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1954

Jayaseelen Naidoo

… when the latter was unbanned. Following the 1994 general election, Naidoo became a cabinet Minister without Portfolio …

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Matsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]

… the Executive Council (ANC, 2020). After the 2004 general election, Motshekga returned to the legislature for her … term as a Member of Parliament in the…

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1980

Pule Mabe

… 53rd Candidate on the African National Congress National Election List 2014  Puleng Peter Mabe (Pule Mabe)  is …

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1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… rapidly, and he was appointed a King’s Counsel (KC) in 1948 and Queen’s Counsel (QC) following the death of King … and became increasingly harsh and more…

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1881-1969

Daniël Francois Malherbe

… people, and the merger of separate cultural lives. In 1948 Malherbe wrote  Spore van Vleiland  (Tracks of the … Moeder en seun  (Mother and son) in 1945, …

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Eddie J. Khaile

Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the…

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1924-1992

Zuleika Sarojini Christopher

… opened a medical practice in Warwick Avenue, Durban in 1948 and another in Malvern, Durban in the …

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the …

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… during his teens, he moved to District Six, Cape Town, in 1948. There he became an amateur boxer, using the name …

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1922

Elsa Joubert

… in Cradock she became editor of  Die Huisgenoot  (1946-1948) and thereafter a full-time writer. Since then Joubert …

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… Council in 1942, and was re-elected in 1945 and 1948. A long time rival of the powerful  John L Dube  in Zulu …

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… he became the first principal of the recently founded (1948) Boitshoko Methodist Institution near Ventersdorp in the …

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… he was offered work as a telegraph operator. However in 1948, he returned to South Africa where he found work at the …

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1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… the HNP in 1941, having become the HNP candidate for a by-election in King Williamstown. He became chairperson of the … by Vorster and his wife. He was the…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… party, the Congress of Democrats (CoD). In the 1999 election, the CoD got 10.5% of votes, or 7 seats; in 2004 it … In 2009, the CoD won one seat, which it…

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1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… Fischer stood as the Communist Party representative for election to Ward 3 (Hospital/Braamfontein) on the Johannesburg City Council. However, she lost the…

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1945

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva

… ran for president three times, first in the 1989 election. The former Minister of Finance, Fernando Henrique … by his former Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff…

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