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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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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…

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1935-1988

Sydney Kumalo

… scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise singer, commissioned for the NAPAC ……

B-0008287

1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… (PAC) in 1957 and went into exile in 1963, returning to South Africa after the unbanning of the organisation in … in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.  For many…

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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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1933-2012

Evelina de Bruin

… Cape . In the early days of her life, her parents moved to Upington . They were a family with ten members and they shared a house with one bedroom and a…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

… headmaster announced that students would be learning a foreign language, German. The implication was clear, many … teacher distributed the German "textbook",…

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1959

Mzwakhe Mbuli

… Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu  family in Sophiatown  on 1 August 1959.  His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa …

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1920-2017

Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)

… Mmabeskraal under the tutelage of Reverend Selope Thema , a prominent African National Congress (ANC) leader. She … High in Soweto . Between 1940 and 1943,…

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1879-1935

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos

… as an advocate when he was only 23 years old. He opened a law practice in Cape Town, but decided to move to  Pretoria , where he became a respected barrister…

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted … and four boys. His father, Jonas Mayekiso…

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1905-1978

Moses Mauane Kotane

… Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant family of Tswana origin. Largely self-taught, he received only a few years…

B-0008274

1936-1988

Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo

… His father died when he was still young, and he was forced to leave school in grade 9 to find work to support his mother … two sisters. Naidoo was the first…

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Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

… Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth and excelled at sport. Later in life, he excelled at squash and golf. He…

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1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor (umphakathi) to the Paramount Chief, Sandile Nggika. The decade during … Andrew…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… no uncertain terms that Verwoerd and his Apartheid was a ‘reuse klomp kak’. His mother was Anglican and she and her … that Apartheid was evil and unchristian…

B-0125758

1891-1922

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

… he was in India with the 29th Division which moved to the Dardanelles on active service. He was transferred to … from the army on 13 September 1918 and was…

B-0067743

1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth – some give it as 1892, others as 1896. As a child, his parents moved to…

B-0008275

1948-1985

Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele

… near Johannesburg, on 10 December 1948. His father was a minister of religion and his mother a domestic worker. In the sixties, his father and mother…

B-0008586

1951

Patricia Horn

… Pat Horn initially got exposed to politics in the early 1970s through her involvement with adult literacy projects during her days as a university student…

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1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of the white Native Representatives Council…

B-0007813

1820-1875

John Thomas Baines

… 1820 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England (often reffered to as Thomas Baines). His father was a master mariner and Baines was educated at Horatio Nelson’s ……

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Chief Maqoma

… Rharhabe division of the Xhosa nation. Implacably opposed to his father's ceding of the land between the Fish and … back into the so-called Neutral Zone in…

B-0008442

1931-1981

Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase

… was born in Pondoland on 9 May 1931. Shangase qualified as a nurse at King Edward Hospital in Durban . As a nurse, in South Africa, she participated actively…

B-0074795

1930-2008

Walter Sidney Felgate

… in 1949. He studied at the University of Natal from 1956 to 1959, earning an honours degree in social anthropogy. … and worked in the rural areas of southern…

B-0008061

1939

Manfred Zylla

… “I use art as a tool to confront reality. I use art as a tool to get to know the world in which I live. And I use …

B-0009272

1917-1998

Winnie Motlalepule Kgware

… Nchu in the Free State on the 27th of October in 1917.  A teacher by profession, and resident at the University of the North (Turfloop). In 1942 she married…

B-0070046

1871-1952

Dr. Hans Merensky

… of Mines in East Prussia. In 1904 Dr Merensky came to South Africa on leave from his employers. He wanted to … and Company sent him to Madagascar to…

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1828-1917

Andrew Murray

… the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland to be educated, where he remained until 1845 when he graduated with a Masters…

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