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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his wife. His father's descent … Norton's limited formal education…

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1938-2018

Keorapetse William Kgositsile

… Dickens and D.H. Lawrence, Kgositsile began writing as a hobby. He soon got a job at the newspaper, New Age, where he contributed poetry … of the ANC,…

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Ben Khoapa

… Ben Khoapa first became interested in politics while a student at a boarding school in Lesotho. This continued when he later went to study at Adams College…

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1949-2015

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

… Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell) and South African-born mother…

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1961

Janet Mary Cherry

… 1961 in Cape Town , where she was raised. Janet comes from a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of Science at … of the…

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1925-1985

Alex la Guma

… question (Mkhize, 134). Alex la Guma’s early exposure to class politics and the national liberation struggle, as … of oppression growing up in District Six,…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… divorce, when she was just three years old, she was forced to go and stay with her grandparents. Her father moved to … She was greatly influenced by her…

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1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… This resulted in her being adopted by Mary-Ann Brown Craig a principal at a local Aberdeen school. Craig provided for Dora’s welfare … of white middle class…

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a child, and this led to his socialist political development. During World War I, he was separated…

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… authorities. Her independent thinking suggested she pursue a career in medicine but she soon took up politics. When she … She arrived in South Africa on 6…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… part in student politics at Livingstone and was elected to its Student Representative Council. After completing her schooling, she enrolled in 1978 for a…

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1795-1836

King Sobhuza I

… as king of the Dlamini clan in 1815. He was determined to expand his authority, but was forced to move northwards, … the mfecane, through diplomacy. He…

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1976

Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane

… informed his family that he had hanged himself. According to a statement released by the minister of police Mr Tshazibane … and during interrogation asked if…

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1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… in 1972, then travelled abroad for two years, working as a manual labourer and farmhand. He later applied his farming experience to win abroad support as…

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1964

Pitso John Mosimane

… in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the … the Premier Soccer League (PSL). Mosimane is…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… Cape) and raised here.  After school he enrolled at a university that was exclusively for coloured students but … before his final exams, Matthews left the…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… the Boers and the English, the Pierneef family decided to move back to the Netherlands in 1901 where Hendrik … into contact with the works of the old masters…

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1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…

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1955

Bantu Holomisa

… the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. He attended … and senior secondary school at…

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1874-1965

Richard Feetham

… In April 1899 he enrolled at the Inner Temple, London to study law. Having volunteered for service in the Second … to the British High Commissioner for South…

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1933

Motsoko Pheko

… Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, … live with their aunt, E.M. Moerane. In 1960, Pheko…

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1924-1992

Zuleika Sarojini Christopher

… , where she also grew up. Advocate Albert Christopher, a member of the moderate grouping of the South African Indian … in politics during Gandhi’s stay in…

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1915

Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia

… Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the … leaders in the…

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Arthur Butelezi

… was included in the curriculum. In 1930 he was working in a sweet factory in Durban. Later he opened a studio at 169 Clauon Road, supplementing his income by…

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T. J. Lemon

… T. J. completed his "A" levels in 1977 at Mount Pleasant High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… Moeketsi. He then joined the 1950’s band The Epistles as a trombonist. The band helped him gain some recognition. … Sadly,  it disbanded in 1959.  Gwangwa…

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1934

Albert Nzula

… in Herschel and at Lovedale, where he qualified as a teacher. For a time he lived at Aliwal North, where he taught, worked as a … and Commercial Workers'…

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1906-1968

Archibald Campbell Jordan

… School. After receiving the Andrew Smith bursary he went to Lovedale College in Alice, where he passed his Junior … study at St John’s College in uMtata,…

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1942

Vera Gow (Adams)

… the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In Evaton, Gow was immersed in an ethos of music and … , who performed at her school. At…

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1915-1972

William Frederick Nkomo

… in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary … the Dougall Hall in  Marabastad . The…

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