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1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to Mamelodi where his political life began. One of the … The news of its independence and its…

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1928-2013

Phyllis Naidoo

… the 5 January 1928. She was the daughter of Simon David, a teacher and principal. His occupation prevented him from being politically active but he was a …

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1942

Ali Bacher

… If Ali Bacher's commitment to cricket had ended after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali … medical…

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Pauline Podbrey

… 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to South Africa a few years previously. Podbrey’s father was involved with an … left school and moved…

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1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young girl, Asa (as she was called) used to read the …

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1940-2009

Dr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang

… 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South African girls located 25 … in 1959, at the age of 19. Tshabalala…

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1841-1926

John Xavier Merriman

… John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the … the Union of South Africa in 1910. He was considered a liberal in…

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1937-2021

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

… July in 1937,  the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he was sent to live with his grandmother at…

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set out to do:  to present to her country ballet of a high standard technically and artistically; she also ……

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1934-2013

Ian Berry

… Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an assistant … employing him…

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, … labourers who came round and…

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four children. His father, a businessperson in the fishing industry, died when he was ……

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1856-1919

Saul Msane

… Institution in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of Europe together with a Zulu choir. In approximately 1907 he left Natal for the ……

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2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) … member of the then Non-European Unity Movement , later to be renamed the…

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1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker … right parents for me, because although they…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor … James Kantor &…

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1904-1996

Nokukhanya Luthuli

… Albert John Luthuli . Although she never became as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable…

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1918-2016

Kobera Manual

… “My great aunt stayed with us and she didn’t allow me to do any chores except to polish the spoons. My eldest … until I was 11. I think it was because I was…

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1939

Chief Malebogo

… Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the Blouberg, about 110 kms from…

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Anna Tempo

… after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner with her welfare … . She continued her work with the…

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Robert Moffat

… His parents were not wealthy. He was father-in-law to the missionary-explorer, David Livingstone and father to John Smith Moffat, who was also a missionary…

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1956

Richard Steele

… Richard Steele was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father …

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1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), to a middle class Indian family. [i]  From an early age Jana … was nurtured early in her life by…

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1918-2013

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

… was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief councillor to the paramount chief of the Thembu and a member of the … as state…

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1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… into the South African Defence Force (SADF), and worked at a variety of jobs for two years, with no particular interest … racing. In 1970, he left for the UK…

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1942-1993

Chris Hani

… die during infancy. The name Chris was adopted by him as a nom de guerre, and was in fact the real name of his brother. Chris grew up a devout Christian…

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1936-2009

Jeanette Eleanor Kasrils

… Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936.  She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960,  Ronnie Kasrils , … Durban, to visit his relative Jacqueline…

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1931

Raymond Ackerman

… Please note:  This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) … . Published by Human and Rousseau. If you would like to…

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1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South Africa, where David chose to pursue a career in…

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… in Krugersdorp, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 June 1980 to Ethel and Simon Maimane but grew up in Dobsonville, … He graduated from the University of South…

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