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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… in 1954. He was already politically active during this time and sat on the students’ council for extra-mural studies … sons. While qualifying as an attorney…

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1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… in Soweto, Jabavu. At the end of the festival, he spent time in Johannesburg playing in various places, and teaching … despite the apartheid laws of the…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

… his backyard, about the English game. This was the first time he had ever received formal coaching of any kind. By the … who was considered the best…

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1876-1932

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

… to the Setswana-speaking Barolong tribe. About the time he was born, his parents moved to the Pniel mission … of national unity among African intellectuals. …

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1952

Lesley Lawson

… and planned how to cover the event. Lawson sees this time as a precursor to the formation of an alternative photo … to freelance for them. In 1983, she went…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… and he was released. Nkadimeng subsequently became a full-time organiser for the Transvaal Council of Non-European … committee and in October was requested…

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1945

Bhekisani Manyoni

… was also Curator of the Pandora Gallery, Mbabane at this time. Since 1979 he has been an artist-in-residence at the …

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1911-1986

Esther Susanna Mentz

… of Stellenbosch from 1929-1931. After this she spent some time making Afrikaans records and teaching singing. In 1934 …

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1895-1960

Sam P. Sesedi

… 1949, winning the Cape rural constituency. He was at that time the president of the Location Advisory Boards Congress. …

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1931-2021

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu

… In 1943, the family was forced to move once more, this time to Munsieville, a Black settlement in Krugersdorp. The … Western Native Township, near Sophiatown…

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1697-1734

Jan Smiesing

… from their parents who were take to Brazil and by the time the Ameersvoort landed at the Cape only 174 of these no … single slave holding from 1658 to 1795’ …

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1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… is that Queen Njinga's rise to power as a woman of that time was nothing short of revolutionary and that her actions … of brilliant political manoeuvring. …

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1948-2002

Bonginhlanhla Plummer Mbokazi

… in order to support his family. Plummer was never a full time artist. He studied art informally at the Community Arts …

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1923-1960

Howard S. Ngcobo

… with the University of London. He worked for a time as a salesman. Active in the Natal African National … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977).  From Protest…

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1940

Yusuf Joe Jacobs

… of Education and obtained a Teacher’s Diploma. At the same time, he met up with other young university students, and in … were picked up regularly and…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… a ‘dompas’ so that he could stay in the area. During this time Mamagobo’s mother, Johanna Mamagobo, passed away after a … in Benoni, Transvaal (now Gauteng)…

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1955-1991

Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo

… with a new identity, he returned to Swaziland, but this time to the Shiselweni district in the south of the country. … absorbed in the work of the…

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1956

Jennifer Schreiner

… and the trial that followed formed the basis of the book `Time Stretching Fear’ written by her mother, Else. On 16 … and the trial that followed formed the…

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1871-1946

John Langalibalele Dube

… maintaining a steady job while studying at the same time. Although Dube never received an official degree from … later used to start a school in South Africa…

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1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… she became active in student politics. During this time she participated in various community organisations and … of the federation. Then in 1988 she began…

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1911-1985

Susanna Helena Kok

… she came into contact with leprosy patients for the first time, and which was to become the main focus of her … in charge of the leprosy patients, and it was…

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1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… where he was awarded a Doctorate in Law. At that time, Jews, however, were not welcome in the higher echelons … Jew appearing for the state in court was…

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1937-2004

Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe

… board secretary at Dennilton near Robertsdale for a short time. He returned to teaching at a high school in Dennilton … to move to Rorke's Drift where he was…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… type that Nxumalo envisaged simply did not exist at the time. Then in 1951, millionaire Jim Bailey established Drum … the antithesis of the entire South…

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1919

Olive Peace Landman

… where she completed her teaching training. During this time Olive took part in a strike led by Oliver Tambo . Her close friends at that time included Renee…

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1919-2000

Mary Dorothy Benson

… all the racial prejudices of White South African of the time. At around the age of eighteen, the young and ambitious … to start writing for the screen. It…

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1935

Mzwakhe Mbatha

… him of a bending female figure. Mbatha worked for a time at yuis Botha Airport, Durban, where the aeroplanes …

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

… journal, Pro Veritate. He was   banned at the same time as the Reverend  Beyers Naude and others.  Reverend … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele .From…

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2012

Telang Mohai

… on leave and how they were looking forward to spending time with him. Now he is gone.” …

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… But I loved to play in the street with my friends, that time it was so safe, and we used to run to the beach. In a … in the kitchen and looking out of the…

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