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1940

Yusuf Joe Jacobs

… Town on 17 September 1940.  His father was Ismail Jacobs, a tailor.  His paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie, who came to South Africa from Indonesia around…

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1901-1968

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews

… , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who later opened a café. Though exposed to politics at a young age - his…

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1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… , near Pretoria . Her father, P.S. ‘Tottie’ Krige was a land surveyor and her mother, Emmy Bernsmann was the daughter of a missionary and a devout Christian…

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1798-1853

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius

… in the planning of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary trip to the interior before he decided to take part in the … 1838. He took part in several…

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1955

Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi

… Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Ramatlhodi's father was a mineworker while his mother a housewife. He was nicknamed “Montsho” and had five … Johannesburg …

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1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study sociology and social work at the University of … after, he joined the University of…

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1919-1998

George Naicker

… sabotage trial sitting at Pietermaritzburg and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment on 29 February 1964. He served his … 1978, he was banned for five years…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all … Sisulu . She married Jack Hodgson in…

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1961

David Hartman

… liberal home. His mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and … where she was an active member of the…

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Elias Monare

… Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955  at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ in the Vryburg district [Northern … his freedom’ by agitating against the…

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1958-1985

Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng

… Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the  African National Congress (ANC) activist and trade … the country immediately after the  1976 Student Uprisings  to…

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1914

Valiamma Munuswami Mudaliar

… Valiamina Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl who decided to join in the last phases of  Gandhi ’s  Satyagraha  in … Mudaliar  and her mother joined other…

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1851-1919

Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino

… Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, … time. He was born in 1851 in Accra, Gold Coast …

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1982

Mary Sibande

… in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist based in … - is interested primarily in questions of…

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1918-2002

Arnold Selby

… the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the discrimination practiced by the mine bosses and the ruling class against…

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1991

Mokgadi Caster Semenya

… Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child,…

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1962-2007

Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza

… matriculation in 1982 he became interested in drama. As a political activist he was very involved with the creation … township, established by the local…

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1932

Dr Essop Essak Jassat

… Jassat, came from Takoli. His father was at various times a hawker and a shopkeeper.Dr Jassat matriculated from the Johannesburg … Indian High School and was…

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of ancestors connected to a royal Zulu family from the…

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1911-1991

Taubie Kushlick

… of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to exert dominance in big business. Yet Taubie Kushlick, an … commerce of theatre in this country as…

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1870-1950

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

… wife, Sybella Margaretha “Isie” Krige, the daughter of a leading local farmer. In 1891, he gained a double first in … (UNISA). This achievement earned him…

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1922-2004

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

… Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before … and had no desire to be. in political activities. As a…

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1910-1987

Mattheus Uys Krige

… Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War  Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can … and lecturer. He also served as contributor for a…

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1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… of his parents were involved in education; his father was a headmaster of a primary school and his mother was involved in teaching. Archie was sent to…

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1929

Günther Komnick

… in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental … of World War II , digging anti…

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1956

Trevor Andrew Manuel

… Cressy High School and matriculated in 1973. He moved on to work for a construction company for nearly 8 years. He was promoted to … to resign from his…

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1852-1927

Elizabeth Maria Molteno

… Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of … views early in life. Betty (as she preferred to be called)…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

… Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian, Coloured mother and a Muslim…

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father was a Mr. Dickenson, a white assistant magistrate. He was raised by his … 4 (Grade 6) at the age of 15…

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1913-1979

Mary Moodley

… Free State). She was the second eldest of 10 children born to Tom Anderson, a miner of Danish descent, and Katherine Anderson, a descendant of a slave from…

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