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1978

Hestrie Cloete

… started training at Lichtenburg High School . She was said to have possessed a very strong will, making it difficult for other coaches to train her. Cloete…

B-0007946

1954

Marlene van Niekerk

… Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954, on a farm in Tygerhoek near Caledon. An outstanding … Niekerk matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof and proceeded to…

B-0064907

1925-2005

Fihla Christmas Tinto

… started at an early age. In 1942, while he was still a student at St John’s College in Umtata, Tinto spearheaded a … for his role in the march, his outraged…

B-0009148

1933-1993

Eschel Mostert Rhoodie

… that standard diplomatic activity was insufficient to improve apartheid South Africa's negative image abroad, … the South African embassy in The Hague in…

B-0008953

1875-1928

George Matthias Winkles

… was born in Birmingham, England, 1859. Winkles came to SA in 1889 to help a widowed sister stranded on the Kimberley diggings. He never returned to England…

B-0009234

1920-2009

Amina Desai

… When her husband, Suliman Mohammed Desai, a  Transvaal Indian Congress  activist died in 1969, Amina … Street, Roodepoort, as an underground base. This was a…

B-0007991

1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

… where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father Gana Makabeni  was a trade unionist and a member of the African…

B-0093589

1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… parents, Scots Presbyterian missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born … on January 3, 1908. From relatively humble…

B-0009232

Joel Joffe

… Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Abraham Joffe, a businessman, had come from Latvia…

B-0066325

1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… State (now Free State Province) on 13 August 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. … KZN), where  Steve Biko  had completed…

B-0008313

1794-1879

Thomas Maclear

… on 17 March 1794 in Newton Steward, Ireland. He trained to be a medical doctor. He was a keen amateur astronomer and was made a Fellow of the Royal …

B-0008359

1917-1958

Christopher W. M. Gell

… cause,After graduating from Cambridge University with a first class pass in1938, while serving in the Indian civil … captain.In 1947 he and his South African…

B-0008097

1804-1856

Chief Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later … the area he had conquered. In 1821 his father…

B-0009012

1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no … carried out on the…

B-0073992

1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into … his leadership in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young Indians…

B-0008731

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of … Mr. Naidoo, who was widely known as M. D. Naidoo, belonged to the South…

B-0078551

1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife … Muriel Alexander, in Johannesburg. From…

B-0008058

1959

Thandi Modise

… near Vryburg in the North West . Her father, Frans Modise, a railworker, was an African National Congress (ANC) … West would be incorporated into…

B-0008591

1905-1977

Hyman Meir Basner

… Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner  and his mother  … in  the United States before coming to…

B-0007833

1931-1972

Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane

… Christian Church (ZCC)  in 1910. He attended school up to standard six and later a junior certificate (standard nine). Joseph Lekganyane’s … prominence in…

B-0008311

1847-1932

Harriette Emily Colenso

… of his Digest of Zulu Affairs and in his efforts to protect the Africans of Natal and Zululand against the … through her London-based brother, Francis…

B-0007954

c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… and attended school there. He worked at various times as a clerk, journalist, court interpreter, and independent … editor in the late 1920s. He failed at two…

B-0068485

1882-1962

Florence Louise Zerffi

… Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. A friend…

B-0009256

1927-2013

Francois Roux

… He attended the Boys High School, Stellenbosch from 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, … Royal Academy Schools, London in…

B-0096207

1938

Dorothy Hazel Alexander

… disabled, the Cape Education Department allowed her mother to become a permanent teacher. (At the time, married women were not … in government employment.)…

B-0079873

1923

Lutchmee Marie

… Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic worker, washing clothes in the local white community. Her father was a factory worker…

B-0064868

2012

Molefi Osiel Ntsoele

… his elderly mother and his mother-in-law. According to his wife, Matsepang Ntsoele,"I cannot even explain the … through. I would not wish it to befall anyone…

B-0121622

1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… later Voortrekkerhoogte, in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and later an executive on the mines in … joined the  South African Defence Force …

B-0008853

1931-1998

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

… The daughter of peasant farmers who were later forced to become farm workers and to give up their livestock.Dorothy … African National Congress (ANC) in 1952…

B-0008843

1949

Joseph Alfers

… graduating from the then University of Natal with a BA.LLB in 1972.  At University, he met Paul Weinberg , … military service system in 1969 (which allowed…

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