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1941-1995

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

… Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near … he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage…

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1955

Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa

… Forced removals in the area made his family relocate to Kwa-Themba. He spent much of his childhood there as well … and with his older brother, Rayda Becker…

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1933-2001

Donald James Woods

… Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism.  Woods initially … by joining the Federal Party. In 1957 he…

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1995

Enver Hassim

… Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His father made a living as a middleman and the…

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1941

Sue Williamson

… born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art … of Fine Art, Cape Town (UCT). Williamson…

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1961-1988

Johannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape

… high school studies at Rebalelaka Secondary. He decided to move to Mamelodi High where he became politically aware. … Civic Organisation (SANCO) in Mamelodi…

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1893-1975

Max Yergan

… about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield College. From about 1920 to 1936 he lived in…

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1924-1960

Ephraim Chaka

… Free State (now Free State Province).   He was married to Mirriam Chaka and together they had four children namely, … riding his bicycle every day to work…

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1947-2017

Raymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri

… in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga ). He grew up with a passion for music, and started playing the guitar at a very tender age, inspired by his late father…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD scholarship to undertake a Master’s degree in the Hochschule FÁ¼r Bildende KÁ¼nste, in …

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1924

Ben Baartman

… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern … joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1953, keen to get involved in organizing…

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Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… When students at University of Fort Hare went on strike to protest against the refusal by the rector to recognize the … Pityana and five other BCM leaders,…

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1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… her primary schooling in Durban. In 1958 her family moved to Fort Hare University where her father had been appointed … lecturers at the university at the…

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David Perumal

… at College Clothing in Albert Street. He was educated up to standard six (grade eight) and had joined the Natal Indian … explained to him that ‘the political…

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1926-2008

Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa

… in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary school at Lovedale College,then earned a teaching certificate…

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1922-2001

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

… Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of a…

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1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… in Namibia. At the age of thirteen, Lubowski was sent to Stellenbosch to complete his schooling, which he did in … and later graduated from the University of…

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1925-2013

Colin Wells Eglin

… up in Pinelands, Cape Town, but moved at the age of nine to live with his aunt, outside Hobhouse, Eastern Free State … learner. The tension between the…

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1952-2004

Sipho Gumede

… Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was…

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1926-1995

Joe Slovo

… Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg . Slovo…

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1909-1985

Moses Josiah Madiba

… Ndebele-speaking, Madiba preferred Northern Sotho as a communication medium. He received his primary education in … Mashashane Lutheran School and…

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1840-1887

Johannes Jane Tane Kekana

… Tane Kekana was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife NaMahlangu, a…

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1936-1990

Chris McGregor

… Cape . He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern Cape ) where his father was a principal at a school founded by the Scottish…

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1950

Biddy Partridge

… in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South African Council for … Education (SACHED). From 1978-1982, she was…

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1936-2008

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

… School at Rosettenville in Johannesburg. In 1955 he went to Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape. He later moved …  military wing,  Umkhonto we Sizwe  in…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington. Frederick was one of eight children. As a young child, he already…

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1955

William Kentridge

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics)…

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Thomas G. Karis

… Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a … and…

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1953

Sandile Ngcobo

… in Durban, South Africa.  Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and 1976. In … 1975 Ngcobo graduated from the…

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