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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also … labour movement and one of the first in the…

B-0009169

1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the … to the university. At the time, the inner city…

B-0097085

1916-2006

Pieter Willem Botha

… parents. He was the only son of Pieter Willem senior (a widower with four children) and Hendrina Prinsloo/de Wet (a … the University of the Orange Free State…

B-0007879

1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek his fortune in South Africa in the 1920s. In South … in Natal.  In 1943 he completed his…

B-0008052

1985

Bathandwa Ndondo

… As a young child, Ndondo’s maternal grandmother raised himwhile … the death of his grandmother, his mother took him to her elder sister’s family, the…

B-0075601

1935-2009

Cassim Saloojee

… was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was married, … him and his family to…

B-0068391

1925-2010

Ethel Walt

… Free State (now Free State Province). Her family relocated to Yeoville, Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), when she was still a young girl. Walt…

B-0095156

1643-1674

Krotoa (Eva)

… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as … Harry…

B-0008280

1933

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

… 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a teacher in Nebo District in…

B-0008601

1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… Later his parents farmed in Cliffdale an area on the way to Pietermartizburg. The Second World War interrupted his … (Grade 12) he registered at Natal…

B-0125809

1940

James Edward April

… Cape).He is the youngest of seven children. His father was a labourer, while his mother stayed at home to care for the family.April’s father was a very…

B-0007792

1929

Peter Hlaole Molotsi

… Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…

B-0068076

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother was a Mauritian citizen. His father made his first trip to Natal in 1891 and worked as a jeweller in Durban…

B-0068301

1836-1914

Joseph Chamberlain

… Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almost socialist liberal to an arch…

B-0123405

14 January1918-1999

Dimitri Tsafendas

… on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with a dagger during a parliamentary session. Tsafendas was born to a Greek father, an engineer named…

B-0009157

1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the … parents died in the battles of the Waterkloof . [2] As a result she is…

B-0008814

1826-1884

King Cetshwayo

… kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth,  Shaka Zulu  was…

B-0066513

1915-2004

David Wilcox Bopape

… against Germany in the First World War. David was born on a farm approximately 25km from Pietersburg (now Polokwane). … where the family stayed for a short…

B-0007870

1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo,…

B-0095270

1930-2013

Amina Cachalia

… on 28 June 1930, Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng ) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her…

B-0007909

1933

Mildred Lesiea

… in the Orange Free State (now Free State ). Unable to find employment in Ladybrand, Ramakaba migrated to Cape … Town, in the early 1920s, where he found…

B-0083813

1770

Chief Dingiswayo

… century Godongwana (Dingiswayo's name before he took a new name) and his brother Mawewe became rivals for the … old chief's life. The plot was discovered and…

B-0067421

1950

Siphiwe Nyanda

… the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for … from Orlando High School in 1969…

B-0008841

1936-2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

… 1936. During her infant years her father, Columbus, was a local history teacher. In later years he was the minister … rule. Her mother, Nomathamsanqa…

B-0008431

1798-1872

King Mpande kaSenzangakhona

… Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. He was a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, who both…

B-0008679

1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and … Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish poet and writer, emigrated…

B-0080054

1868-1913

King Dinuzulu

… nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After the Anglo-Zulu … Wolseley, British administrator of Natal,…

B-0008008

1936-2012

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander

… was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in the rural Eastern Cape …

B-0084115

1930-2017

Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba

… Africa where he was also raised. His parents emigrated to South Africa from Gujarat. Chiba abandoned secondary … to his commitment and leadership, he was…

B-0077696

1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… the youngest of five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub treated the … shelter and food. His generosity…

B-0008213