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Godfrey Sekhukhune

… of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s worked as a male nurse …

B-0149307

1986

Ngwenduna Vanda

… a pauper's burial by the then Transkei authorities.His family finally located the site of his burial and interred …

B-0149396

1985

Bheki Mvulane

… never gained consciousness." Bheki was hospitalised - the family became aware that something was amiss only when he …

B-0149426

1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… officer for the battering of an innocent Coloured man. Her family was forced to move again as a result. In 1959 Daane … to Cape Town. Eventually in 1960 the…

B-0007968

1977

Matthews Mabelane

… At the inquest Mr L Liebowitz representing the Mabelane family,asked twice for a postponement until witnesses could be found to testify for the family.He was…

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1869-1948

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

… education Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born to a Hindu family on 2 October 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. He … them his word that he would return if…

B-0008089

1955

Adam Glasser

… then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the …

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Thomas G. Karis

… the Pretoria government refused to issue him and his family visas for South Africa. In 1976, an article …

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1947-2006

Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga

… [viii] He went on to transfer his skills to not only his family, but young boys and girls in Steadville. Let us …

B-0100310

1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… to genetic heart-related conditions. The youngest in his family, Makhanya enrolled at the University of Fort Hare in …

B-0008398

1952

Oupa Joshua Gqozo

… and offices connected to the Ciskei government and Sebe’s family were damaged. The new government under Gqozo and …

B-0008121

1895-1983

Rev. James Arthur Calata

… James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James …

B-0007914

Joel Joffe

… Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now …

B-0066325

1930-2013

Professor Bernard Magubane

… community in Lusaka. Oliver Tambo stayed with the Magubane family for some time and they became close friends. At the …

B-0095733

1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited means. He studied at the School of Optic …

B-0008991

1940

Johnson Phillip Mlambo

… on 20 June 1983. Mlambo spent about ten days with his with family before skipping the country to join PAC in exile. He …

B-0067961

1905-1978

Moses Mauane Kotane

… in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant family of Tswana origin. Largely self-taught, he received …

B-0008274

1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

… People’s Organisation (SACPO) , while Blanche was the family breadwinner. According to Alex:   She was one of the …

B-0080449

1927

William Sinclair Winship

… specialist on the Board of Management of Durban Child and Family Welfare. He was also chairperson of both the Adoption … of the South African National…

B-0149434

1924-2009

Richard Owen Dudley

… In 1961, Dudley’s parents were forcibly removed from their family home in Newlands. His parents received R6200 for … Dudley’s daughter died which was a…

B-0148406

1970

Morris Ranoto

… Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. He survived on support from family and friends and “became a recluse” after Frans …

B-0149273

1965-1987

Gqeba Mzwandile

… Thereafter he had some casual jobs; he helped run his family’s shack shop in the township of NAME. Mzwandile had …

B-0149386

David Bruce

… In Bruce’s words: “My mother came from a German Jewish family. Though she and her mother and father escaped to South Africa, her broader family suffered…

B-0149243

1945-2025

Theresa Solomon

… sought after by the Security Police as well as the exile family programme, aiding families of exiles. In 1989, Solomon … Her life was rooted in service to…

B-0153021

1977-2008

Eudy Simelane

… not sorry” for his crimes. Following Simelane’s death, her family worked with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) to … soccer boots, five medals and one…

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Lot Kgagudi Maredi

… dangerous. He was not permitted to go home to see his family, or collect his belongings. For resisting his re- … been in vain. Kgagudi Maredi, for example,…

B-0148453

1894-1961

James la Guma

… Jemima. While the domestic circumstances of the la Guma family, which was of French-Malgasy origin, are obscure … years of neglect. la Guma spent most of the…

B-0008292

Coopoosamy Naidoo

Coopoosamy, the eldest son of Thambi and Veerammal Naidoo, was sentenced in 1909 to seven days with hard labour for hawking without licence. He went hawking…

B-0149239

1985

Sipho Mutsi

… to Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein, where he died. His family called for an inquest, as they did not believe the …

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