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1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

… Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870, and settled in …

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1929-2000

Esme Bodenstein

… as a night school for Africans. In order to support her family, Bodenstein started a physiotherapy practice. She was …

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Ramnie Dinat

… (ANC) and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Ramnie and her family returned to South Africa after the ban on the ANC was …

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1885-1970

Kerr Alexander

… Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to Greenock where his father represented a Glasgow-based family engaged in tea…

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1933-1986

Florence Barbara Ribeiro

… She waited for her order and then proudly marched her family out of the shop, leaving it behind. In the 1980s she … period it was Ribeiro's strength that…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… and a Swiss mother.  When she was three years old, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), then a … black Zimbabwean’s leg. In the ensuing…

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… Madaka who, both passed away in 1990. In 1969, his family relocated to KwaZakhele Township. He received his … the South African Student Movement (SASM). In…

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… and sisters came to Cape Town. His mother kept the family together by renting out rooms, in their house, to … Snitcher taught English to foreigners to assist…

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1953

Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale

… a patron of societies such as the Johannesburg Child and Family Welfare Society, Streetwise South Africa (an … dedicated to assisting street children), Save…

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1927-2009

Harriet Bolton

… of four children – a younger brother and two sisters. Her family moved around several times but when Bolton was six her … her positions of general secretary…

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1949

Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela

… 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus , after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape …

B-0007811

1952

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa

… 1952 in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal. Mautloa's family moved to Soweto in 1954. He attended Mehlaleng Lower …

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1944

Kaizer Motaung

… in 2012. He was the only one who was not involved in the family business. One of his sons, Kaizer Motaung Junior, …

B-0096409

1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… November  1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian …

B-0007771

1975

Nicholas Hlobo

… in 1975 in Cape Town , Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon …

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1955

Caesarina Kona Makhoere

… of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her family. During the next several years, she attended …

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Tim Bruwer

… Early indications I was born into a middle class Afrikaner family whose original South African ancestor, Estienne … life and death of the Black South African…

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek his fortune in South Africa in the 1920s. In … selling of second hand furniture. In…

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1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… farm in the Thaba 'Nchu reserve. He belong to a chiefly family of the Barongsub-group of the tswana and was an active …

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… and Father Francis looked after them through a forster family. Dring his days at school Tolkien showed keen interest …

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… in Sophiatown in 1943. He schooled in the area before his family moved to Kliptown. He studied medicine at Glasgow …

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… independence, he was elected a veld-cornet. In 1882, the family moved again, this time to the farm Suikerboskop in the … to buy his father's farm,…

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1930-2018

David Goldblatt

… became ill with cancer and someone had to take over the family’s men’s outfitting business. David undertook the … University in Johannesburg . In between…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family soon moved to Durban where he attended school and … and there were times when there was no…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… way for others so that he could devote more time to his family and other interests.Early in 1991 Dhlomo launched the … qualified nursing sister and tutor,…

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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… the Pondoland Rebellion . During this time Qabula and his family lived in the forests near their homes where they would … not have to pay maintenance and the…

B-0093813

1950

Biddy Partridge

… apartheid. There, they worked as musicians. Other Samuels family members moved to Britain, where her niece Sarrounia's family still lives. Partridge…

B-0008865

1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

… left school at the age of 15 to support the family.  Her first job was at a “canning factory where she … five days (later extended to twelve) to say goodbye…

B-0008367

1942

Pitika Ntuli

… Ntuli writes poems about political heroes such as Steve Biko, as well as events such as the Marikana Massacre titled …

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