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1916-2015

Sarah Carneson

… her mother, Anna, was from Russia. Zelic Rubin worked as a tailor and, unusually for the time, employed Coloured and … Communist League of South Africa …

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1923

Zamazulu Thembekile Nkosi

… Administration and in  KwaZulu-Natal . Her decision to nurse was motivated by a wish to help the sick. She worked hard to reach her goal, and was …

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1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, … Hammarskjöld. The latter was the prime minister of Sweden,…

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1964

Joseph Manana

… an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an award from the Tito Zungu … of the late artist Tito Zungu which…

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was … in the tradition of British painting…

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1944

Kevin Dowling

… Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 … based at the St Joseph’s Mission,…

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1863-1928

Henry Reed Ngcayiya

… He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern … Native Congress. Two years later, after he…

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1936-2009

Dawood Parker

… the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role in local civic affairs. He was a leading voice in the struggle against apartheid,…

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1956-1985

Andries Raditsela

… Raditsela became deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (CWIU), an … Unions (FOSATU).  During this…

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange…

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1873-1917

Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube

… the African National Congress  ANC). As an equal partner to John Langalibalele Dube, Nokutela Dube contributed to … in the country since the early 20 th…

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1937-2006

Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau

… when it assumed independence in 1976. As the daughter of a paramount chief, Sigcau was politically conscientised from … Alice where she attended school in…

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1921

Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein

… As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in … in the 1956 Treason Trials . Arenstein worked as a journalist and correspondent for The…

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2012

Thembinkosi Gwelani

… On 16 August he was not employed at Lonmin but had gone to the Koppie to take food to his cousin, Musa Gwelani, who was part of the strike. …

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia

… Transvaal. He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he was one of the … during the struggle and was reduced to…

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1955

Michael Davis

… one-year call-up in the South African Air Force as a medical orderly. Thereafter he studied civil engineering at … of Witwatersrand for over three years…

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Gaur Radebe

… in 1942, he was associated with Paul Mosaka's efforts to launch the African Democratic Party in 1943. His name was … the Transvaal executive committee and in…

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T W Thibedi

… Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according to Roux, for some years the…

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1938

Elza Miles (Botha)

… Miles (nee Botha) was born in 1938. In 1960 Miles obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, followed by a BA Honours in Afrikaans-Nederlands …

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1847-1929

Millicent Fawcett

… over from Britain during the  Anglo Boer War  in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration camps and then to give advice to the British government…

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Max Coleman

… Max Coleman was the Human Rights Commissioner,a businessman .He was married to Audrey Coleman, they had four sons, and became active … members of this…

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1939-2001

Laurent Kabila

… Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance with the country’s first … that was comprised of Lumumba’s old…

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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… of the North (Turfloop), where he graduated with a degree in Social Work in the early 1970s. While studying at Turfloop, he was drawn to the philosophy of…

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1931-2015

Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena

… Dr Oshadi Mangena was born in a toilet on 12 June 1931 when her father’s employer refused to allow her mother to wait for an ambulance inside her home, as…

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1929-1994

Ruth Gosschalk

… immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gosschalk’s mother was a member of the philanthropic  Union of Jewish Women , and her father worked as a market agent. In…

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1930-1985

Molly Blackburn

… her involvement in the Black Sash . In 1981 she won a provincial seat for the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) in … politics in 1981 with her sister Judy…

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1929-2011

Margaret Nash

… in England on 1 March 1929.  In 1931, her family moved to South Africa and settled in Durban , Natal (now … the young age of 16 she enrolled at Rhodes…

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1697-1734

Jan Smiesing

… for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for … world outside disappeared both socially and…

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1963

Justice Sfiso Mkame

… (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did … and the Little E. Theatre, Durban in 1983…

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