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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1967

Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu

… primary and high school before dropping out at grade nine to follow his passionate sport, boxing. During his amateur … years after turning professional…

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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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1942-1991

Dumile Feni

… died when he was only five or six years old and he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age of eleven. He then began working for his father, a…

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… he represented the senior cricket team. Amra was exposed to George Singh and other activists who played a crucial role in charting a more confrontational…

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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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1937-1999

Simon Nkabinde

… father died while he was young, and later he was forced to leave school because he could not afford to pay for his fees.  Mahlathini then found work in a…

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