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1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after having served as Minister of Justice from 1961 … He was, according to subsequent…

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Madi Gray

… in Cape Town , where she grew up, attended school and went to university.  Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who … came to South Africa during the…

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1909-1983

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

… in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link its destiny with that of the African majority,…

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1927

Sydney Brenner

… Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, close to Johannesburg, to Jewish parents on 13 January 1927. His father was a shoe repairman who had moved to South…

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1860-1926

Emily Hobhouse

… of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy regarding South Africa. Hobhouse was a humanitarian…

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1892-1985

Dr James Sebe Moroka

… in Alice in the Eastern Cape, where he met Mr MacDonald, a church minister from Scotland. MacDonald was planning to educate young Black students in Scotland,…

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1909-1972

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

… Nwia Kofi Nkrumah on 21 September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region. After attending a Catholic mission…

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1917-1993

Oliver Tambo

… mother, Julia, was the third wife of Mzimeni Tambo, son of a farmer and an assistant salesperson at a local trading store. His father had four wives and ten …

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… age of nineteen, he married Cornelia Margaretha Kruger, a woman of strong character. They were to have sixteen children. Upon the annexation of the … at…

B-0007999

1949

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

… (now Gauteng). His parents, Louis Mathakoe Motlanthe, a cleaner and Masefako Sophia Madingoane, a domestic worker … Transvaal, now Gauteng] Old Location…

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1853-1902

Cecil John Rhodes

… William Rhodes and his second wife, Louisa Peacock. A priest of the Church of England, his father served as … and his works on the great Roman Empire. Cecil…

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… ), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the time. Her mother, Bessie Amelia Emery, came from a wealthy family of Scottish descent. No…

B-0008149

1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to become a teacher…

B-0007869

1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she grew up as a child. Her father was a lecturer in African languages at the University of the … Walter Sisulu…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. … the family…

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1860-1930

Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo

… Tamil Nadu,India, had settled in Mauritius. His father was a prosperous fertiliser and cartage contractor in Mauritius. … Hindustani, Creole (which he had…

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1619-1677

Jan van Riebeeck

… was born on 21 April 1619 in Culemborg, Netherlands to a surgeon. He spent his youth in Schiedam, Netherlands … as VOC) in 1639 where he began as an…

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1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… Jacqueline Daane was born on 17 December 1937. A White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when she adopted a mute Black boy (6). She…

B-0007968

1963

Roger Meintjes

… Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand enlarger advertised in the under-R20 column in one of the Cape newspapers.  In 1985,…

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku was born in Durban in 1955.  A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, composer and arranger, he was born to a musician…

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted to the Bar in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an auxiliary body, although…

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1893-1962

Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma

… Xuma, devout members of the Wesleyan Church.  Abraham, a lay preacher at the Enduku Methodist Society of the Bojane Mission, was a respected tribal…

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1792-1852

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

… He fought in the Fourth and Fifth Frontier Wars and was a wealthy sheep farmer when, like many other Dutch farmers at the Cape, he decided to leave the…

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1905-1982

John Collins

… He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master builder and his wife, Hannah Priscilla Edwards. He … became ordained at the…

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1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father … in the southeast of Transvaal where…

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1943-1989

Dr. Abu Baker Asvat

… History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate society from oppression. He gave his life so that others may have a better life. He was a…

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1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… Malebane-Metsing worked for local government. He began as a clerk before becoming a superintendant of public works in Tlhabane. Frustrated by … if one was…

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1930-2018

Billy Modise

… He received an Anglican scholarship which enabled him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial … people and his personal experiences of…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… Introduction Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between … population (especially the youth) were highly…

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1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… Chennai), India, in 1890 came as an indentured labourer on a five-year contract, to work on the sugar estates of Natal. His mother Gangamma, … children, came…

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