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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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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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1946

Chief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk

… the final days of colonial rule and the transition to the apartheid regime in 1948, and in 1950, he and his … During this period in Cape Town, Van Wyk…

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1941

Ray Berman

… bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national household name in places…

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1898-1969

Nana Sita

… collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family which was active in the Indian freedom movement. He…

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… most widely known and respected African leader of his era. A latecomer to politics, the Chief was 54 when he assumed the leadership … about whether he…

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1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… in Grodzisk, near Warsaw, Poland on 16 December 1903. As a young boy Kibel was preoccupied with carving. His father’s death in 1911 brought sudden insecurity…

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1936

Mama Beshenga

… and the aged were being taken away from urban areas to barren places where there were no schools, clinics and jobs. Husbands remained behind to work as…

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1865

Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi

… and running. He was nicknamed Magadu meaning “one who took a duiker for his model”. His other names were kaMancinza, … uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly…

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1892-1975

Haile Selassie I

… Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth name … Makonnen Wolde Michael. Selassie…

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1795-1840

King Dingane ka Senzangakhona

… Dingane ka Senzangakhona was born in 1795 to father Chief Senzangakhona and mother Mpikase kaMlilela … royal homestead from Nobamba in the emaKhosini valley…

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1935

Solomon Kerzner

… gave them birth. Jointly and severally, they lay claim to a name that is greater than the sum of their parts: … Bophuthatswana. But you can call them Bop. If…

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1929-2021

Norman Levy

… Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later…

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1956

Jennifer Schreiner

… born in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner.  Else and Deneys were … of KwaZulu-Natal-UKZN) from 1976 to 1987…

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1937-2002

Justice Gizenga Mpanza

… was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to school at Groutville, but was forced to leave after … and mass meetings that were held at…

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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola

… early age and was raised by his sister. The family moved to Marabastad and then to Atteridgeville in 1942 where he … He proceeded to Hofmeyr Secondary School…

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1881-1951

Pixley ka Isaka Seme

… Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil and teenager. He obtained his primary … S. C. Pixley, took an interest in him…

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1909-1961

David Pratt

… David Beresford Pratt was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from … when Pratt was two years old. He developed…

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1921-2015

Norman Stewart Middleton

… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) when he was … finishing school, he signed up to join the army…

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Anneke Laurie

… Laurie was born in Zimbabwe, where her father was a missionary doctor. Shortly after her birth, the family was forced to leave the country because of the…

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1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… 1918.  She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the … Buildings on 9 August 1956. The…

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

… local high school, until Standard Six when he left to work on the mines in Johannesburg. Ngudle worked as a malaisha, a loader who shoveled gold bearing rock…

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Potlako Leballo

… Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and enlisted in a non-European transport unit of the…

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Vella Pillay

… This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his … been owned by my father but that it was heavily mortgaged to the banks. My elder brother at…

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1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… Bobonong Primary School between 1936 and 1941.He then came to South Africa where he did his secondary schooling at St … including the infiltration of trained…

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1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Sara grew up on a colonial farm where her…

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1953-2005

Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu

… Groblersdal. The Prince had an elder brother and a younger sister. From the age of 16, he sat in on discussions with people who came to discuss their…

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