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1830-1913

Gordon Sprigg

… Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up his first job in a…

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1910-1978

Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker

… Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife Dhanalutchmee Pillay. The … Monty's grandfather came from…

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1935-2013

Sipo Elijah Mzimela

… born on 19 June 1935, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) to Allison and Maria Mzimela. The entire family was raised as Anglicans and as a child, he wanted…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… where he matriculated in 1965.  In 1966, he relocated to India to undertake his tertiary education. Haffejee … in school and played an instrumental role in…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He … all in Gauteng (formerly the Transvaal)…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… Cornells Struik and AA Balkema. But the one who was to transform that industry single-handedly was Balkema.  … was born in 1906. Twenty-seven years later he…

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Dawid Kruiper

… (now Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) in 1936.  He referred to himself as “Die Ou Ram” (The Old Ram). He was the first … in 1987. Kruiper was well known for his…

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1934-2011

Abdool Kader Hassim

… the beginning of 1951 when he and his elder brother went to Umzinto where they wrote their matriculation examinations … to the  Non-European Unity Movement …

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… Thambi Naidoo , was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi, with the help of Hermann … took his family to live on the farm…

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1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… Church, were successful peasant farmers strongly committed to securing the best available schooling for their children. … Child Welfare Organisation in…

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1879-1958

Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha

… Institution in the Cape Colony.  In 1903, he qualified as a teacher in the Native Schools (as it was then called) of … under the Natal Education Department…

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1884-1933

Richard Msimang

… in the Eastern Cape. Subsequently Msimang spent a decade in Britain where he attended Queens College, in Taunton, Somerset. Queen's College, Taunton, was and…

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1923-2003

Maggie Resha

… seven at Pontseng, while living with her aunt, which was a three mile walk from her home. The school only had two … and dictation. When Resha was ten, she…

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1923-2003

Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha

… seven at Pontseng, while living with her aunt, which was a three mile walk from her home. The school only had two … and dictation. When Resha was ten, she…

B-0068385

1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant, lower middle-class family. His mother was a … moment in his political understanding,…

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

… 1925 in Paarl , in the Western Cape . She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a multi-racial school in Paarl called Bethanie School. Her…

B-0007768

1931-2015

Reggie Vandeyar

… Reggie Vandeyar was born into a poor family on 15 July 1931 in Newclare. His father was originally from India, who had come to South Africa to seek fortune. …

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1929-2006

Arthur Albert Hugh Adams

… Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated from India to South Africa in…

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1920-2004

Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale

… born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to the Wilberforce Native…

B-0094641

1924-2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

… Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of Gabriel…

B-0122852

1926

Johannes Jacobus Degenaar

… Jacobus Degenaar was born on 7 March 1926 in Ladysmith. As a young man he was sent to the Cape to study at the University of Stellenbosch, where he completed…

B-0007981

1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… Pahad left India for South Africa in 1919, but returned to India with his father in 1922 to continue with his … in India . They met Gandhi in 1925 and also…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) … on the south coast of Natalon 7 November. He went to meet him with other members…

B-0094271

1919

Olive Peace Landman

… that is still near the Mgwali river, and corresponds to the description for the location of the location of the … who was at Emgwali in 1910, and Miss Janet…

B-0122648

1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. He was the youngest in a family of…

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1894-1961

James la Guma

… Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant…

B-0008292

1956

Patric Tariq Mellet

… family were poor working people from what was regarded as a grey area community of people who came to be classified during the Apartheid years, as ‘coloured’…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, … the Community…

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1942

Feziwe Bookholane

… of seven children. After completing her matric she joined a Catholic convent where she served as a nun. During her seven years in the nunnery, she was told…

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