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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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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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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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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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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted soprano, and his father played the organ in…

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1780-1820

Makhanda Nxele

… in Xhosa society, there is little direct evidence to shed light on Makhanda in his entirety. Reverend John … Campbell, who met Makhanda, described him: “We…

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1881-1971

Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane

… his primary school education in Thaba Nchu he was send to Morija Mission Institute in Basotholand (Lesotho) where he qualified as a teacher in 1901. He soon…

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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… of the 1930s Scheepers and her sister, Anna Magrieta, went to Johannesburg to seek employment. As was the case with many Afrikaans women, she found a…

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1935

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

… He matriculated at St Oswald's School and enrolled for a BA degree at the University of Natal, Durban, as a part time student. Whilst at university, Maharaj…

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1940-2023

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia

… - KZN) on 2 August 1940. His grandparents had come to South Africa around the 1880’s. They were part of the … to South Africa. His grandfather had owned…

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1967

Francois Pienaar

… Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class Afrikaner family. Although he participated in various sporting activities as a…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended Grey High School, a…

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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… school at Adams College in Durban where he trained as a teacher before teaching in Mzinyathi in the Inanda area. … Bantu Education he resigned from teaching…

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1920-1977

Elmon Malele

… in the Limpopo Province (Transvaal) in 1920. Malele came to Johannesburg in 1943, and stayed in Alexandra township. He … caught by two African Special Branch…

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1866-1942

James Barry Munnik Hertzog

… was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a descendant of a German immigrant, Johann Barthold Hertzog, … In 1881, together with his three…

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1966-1987

Ashley James Kriel

… Ashley Kriel was born on the 17 October 1966 to Ivy and Melvin Kriel. He has two sisters, Michel Assure … He grew up in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. Bonteheuwel…

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1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… which culminated into the ‘ Stuart Report .’ [i] According to political journalist Martin Plaut, ‘there would have been … to by the British colonial…

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1922-1999

Julius Nyerere

… born on the 13th of April 1922 in Butiama village, next to Lake Victoria, in Tanganyika (name given to the British … He returned to Tanganyika in 1952,…

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1980

Lindiwe Mazibuko

… on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her father was a banker and her mother a nurse. Mazibuko grew…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the … children, and grew up with his…

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1878-1941

Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke

… little is known about his early life except that he was a member of the Bakgatlo tribe. He was drafted as a driver for the Boer commandos during the South…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… ), South Africa. Mrs Sobukwe (then Miss Mathe) was a trainee nurse at Victoria Hospital in Lovedale, Eastern … Cape . The nurses at the hospital had been…

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1940

Gille De Vlieg

… Gillian Ruth Hemson in  Plymouth , England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in a later bombing raid, she and her…

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1949-2015

Clive Edward Butler Rice

… His education started at St. Johns College and from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University … Nuffield XI in 1967 and eventually…

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1935

Anderson Khumani Ganyile

… School in Umtata and then Lovedale before proceeding to Fort Hare in 1959.  Ganyile’s interest in politics was … Congress  (ANC) 1952 Defiance Campaign . In…

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1930-2018

David Goldblatt

… son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents to escape the … in photography was sparked by his…

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Harry Moyaga

… alongside Christianity. Consequently, her death was a traumatic experience. Moyaga believes that her influence still sustains him in his quest to express the…

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1933-2009

Anton Ndoda Xaba

… He left school in the late 1940s and went to work in Durban.  He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1953 at Emsizini in Durban at a meeting that…

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho was born to a peasant family in Maun Bechuanaland (now Botswana) on 3 February 1921. His family came from a non-Setswana-speaking…

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