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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… in God. It was revolutionary feminist writing for the time and the book became a best seller in Europe and the … Irons, because of prejudice against women…

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1930-2015

Maggie Smith

… the 60s when the press was truly male dominated. At that time women in the media mainly did "soft" jobs, like working …

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1908

Thomas Selema Masekela

… and subsequently for the Benoni Municipality. At this time he came into contact with Dr C.P. Anning, Medical …

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1907-1946

Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp

… itself, Lewis reflected the conservative tastes of the time. After this skirmish with him, Everard-Steenkamp later …

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1883-1970

Daniel William Alexander

… granted an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.At the time of Alexander's death the African Orthodox Church(AOC) … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele …

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1952-1985

Ruben Xulu

… where he worked under Father Anton Maier. During this time he also worked periodically at Mariannhill under Sister …

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1989-2001

Nkosi Johnson

… speaker. He succumbed to the virus on 1 June 2001. At the time of his death, he was the longest-surviving child born …

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… invovled in politics at the young age of 13 and by the time he was 15 years old, he was a spokesperson of the Pan …

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1954

Wendy Schwegmann

… the resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. At the time she was freelancing for Reuters and was a regular …

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1920

Jaydew Nasib Singh

…  district committee; later, he left the party. At the time of the Indian protests of 1946, he served as secretary … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From…

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1936-2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

… his morality so obviously demanded that he should. In time she came to understand that her father’s involvement … an education that was on par with her White…

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1924-1978

Robert Sobukwe

… girl. His father worked as a municipal labourer and a part-time woodcutter, his mother as a domestic worker and cook at … [Northern Cape, now North West…

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1639-1712

Simon van der Stel

… van Goa, a former slave woman of Indian descent. At the time it was common for Company men working in Batavia to take … under the administration of Simon van…

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… household of his uncle, Martin Luthuli, who was at that time the elected Chief of the Christian Zulus inhabiting … Becoming seriously conscious of his…

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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… he learned to speak Afrikaans but as all lectures at that time were in Afrikaans, and by studying Hollands 1, he became … and developed a great love for it. …

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1917-1979

Benjamin Magson Kies

… city. The debates covered issues that were topical at the time, such as the role of intellectuals, the impending Second … 1937 when he would still have been…

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1926-2016

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

… travelling musician, often spending vast periods of time on the road playing in small towns and villages as well …

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1956-2003

Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba

… language that is accessible and lucid”. At the same time his work is a good example of how Black artists have …

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1917-1958

Christopher W. M. Gell

… Although totally paralyzed and confined most of the time to an iron lung, he became an authority on racial … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele .From…

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a Durban textile plant, where he became a trade union …

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Abner S. Mtimkulu

… chaplain of the  African National Congress  (ANC) at the time  A. B. Xuma  became president-general. Long an associate …

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

… Indians impatient with the divisions that had up to that time plagued Indian political organisations and prevented … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977)…

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… husband and before her return in 1931, studied for some time at the Lenin School in Moscow. Convinced of the …

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… ties to the Communist Party, which was banned at the time. In 1977, he went into exile in Britain, where he …

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1954

William Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr

… History (1984) and an LLB (1989) [ii] . Through this time, his research interests were the African National … four separate occasions, he was in 1989…

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1941-2010

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche

… served nearly five years as a policeman, some of that time in the Special Guard Unit responsible for protecting … off his horse during a parade in Pretoria…

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1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… teens. She supported him to pursue his studies until the time he got married to Galiema Sadan on 15 March in 1950. … by internal and external forces. Whilst…

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1917-2004

Villa Baker

… banned from practising law, allowed only one visitor at a time, and placed under permanent police surveillance. In 1970 … the end of the year after Beryl had…

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1968

Rebecca Malope

… was confined to a wheelchair after an illness and for a time, doctors believed that she would not walk again. Her … Malope began her own SABC-2 TV talk show…

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… for the Rand Daily Mail. A colleague of Nakasa at the time, well-known journalist Joe Thloloe, says while many journalists of the time were men of the bottle…

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