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1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… in Newclare, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) to Julie and Ebrahim Dangor. She completed her Standard Ten … Johannesburg. Duarte started her…

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1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… became involved in student politics. After qualifying as a medical doctor in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a medical…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… way ahead of her time.  Though credited with introducing a modern school of sculpture to South Africa during her early career, she was often criticized for…

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1880

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

… Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began his working life at 17, when he entered Dunkelsbuhler & Company…

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1944

Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)

… in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle … in the South African Communist…

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1934

Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu

… the local primary school and in Standard Six he went to live with a white missionary couple to continue his schooling at the … Umtata in 1952.  He joined the…

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1897-1962

Richard Granville Baloyi

… north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a taxi owner. In 1927 he purchased his first buses and … forced…

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1920-2000

Fred Carneson

… was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine … just enough to…

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1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… gained their freedom from indenture his grandparents chose to live in Cato Manor. They bought a small piece of ground to develop a market garden. His…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar workers, and for…

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1938

Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils

… pogroms at the end of the 19th century.  His father was a factory salesman and his mother worked as a shop assistant. Kasrils matriculated from the King…

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1950

Charles Nupen

… Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts with…

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… on 15 October 1983 from the University of Swaziland with a Bachelor in Administration (B.Admin) degree in Social … of Swaziland she joined uMKhonto we Sizwe …

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1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… at the King Edward VII High School. In 1941, he obtained a BA degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. He served … African forces in World War II for…

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1917-2013

Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose

… at Kwa Mdingi Lower Primary School before going on to Kwa Mdingi High School. He later attended a technical school in King Williams Town.Gqobose became…

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Billy Paddock

… involved in the Student Christian Movement. He edited a journal, Through the Cross , which argued strongly for … social justice in South Africa. He later…

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1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

… (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there…

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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… While in exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International … Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From September 1986 to…

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1956

Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then moved to Soweto . Manzini suffered from polio as a child and as a result spent close to four years in the…

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi – Pedi war…

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1709-1785

Georg Schmidt

… was born in Kunewalde on 30 September 1709 as the son of a peasant family. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 16. In 1726, Schmidt set off on ……

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1920-1969

Eduardo Mondlane

… Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was also a History and Sociology Professor at Syracuse…

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1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she moved to Cape Town , where her husband was employed. In 1948 she…

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… National Party’s segregationist bills. She was opposed to all forms of injustice, especially the Group Areas Act … the injustices imposed by the government,…

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1922-1985

John Nyathi Pokela

… the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was … engaging the Azanian People’s…

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1925

Gertrude Shope

… , but grew up in Zimbabwe . She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto . When she was 29 years old she … While in exile, Gertrude…

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1917

Elijah Thomas Zondi

… Zondi was born on 22 October 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu.  He … the Dundee Intermediate School. “You’re never…

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1925-1976

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

… He grew up looking after his father's cattle and goats. As a young boy, he was very adept at stick- fighting, often … Mdluli was arrested in 1966 and…

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1960

David Dabede Mabuza

… He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtained a National Teacher’s Certificate from Mngwenya College of … Student Organisation (AZASO) at the age of…

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

… mother, Dr Priscilla Phyllis Jordan (born, Ntantala), was a teacher, researcher and lecturer. Both his parents were … States of America and Britain. He left…

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