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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…

B-0007933

1955

Bantu Holomisa

Major General (Retired) Bantubonke (Bantu) Harrington Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…

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1933-2012

Evelina de Bruin

Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her life, her parents…

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1928-2011

Henry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi

Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…

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1925-2020

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) district, as one of a twin (he has a…

B-0008579

1933

Motsoko Pheko

Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his…

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1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and…

B-0070371

1965

Phila Portia Ndwandwe

Phila Portia Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya…

B-0073820

1922-2013

Vesta Smith

Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 20 July 1922. Her father worked as a clerk at…

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1953-2008

Ivan Toms

Ivan Toms was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 11 July 1953. He completed his medical degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in…

B-0095150

1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), to a middle class Indian family.[i] From an early age Jana…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…

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1955-2010

Benny (!Khoisan X) Alexander

Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following…

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1919-1998

George Naicker

George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…

B-0068192

1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…

B-0080342

1935-1981

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, the eldest son of Johnson Pinti and Hannah Nowise Mxenge, was born in 1935. His parents were well-respected peasant farmers of Rayi,…

B-0141691

1923-2004

Anthony Richard Stubbs

Anthony Richard Peter Stubbs was born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1923, and educated at Eton, at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the College of the…

B-0149445

1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek…

B-0008052

1787-1828

Shaka Zulu

Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the…

B-0009265

1963

Saul Simon Nhlapo

Saul Simon Nhlapo, from Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now Gauteng], was considered a “ringleader”and was reportedly: The man most feared…

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1985

Klass Makhosana Mahlangu

He is originally from the Ndzundza-Mabhoko tribe. He married Nonhlanhla Zulu, sister of the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini which made him gain the title of…

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Jack Monamudi Matsepe

Jack Monamudi Matsepe’s banishment appears to be linked to the Maleuskop between Groblersdal [Limpopo Province] and Middelburg [Mpumalanga] to Tafelkop…

B-0148450

1949-2014

Jabu Sithole

Jabu Sithole was born on 23 October 1949 in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where he attended primary school until age seven when he was struck…

B-0149218

1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes…

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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and…

B-0095602

1871-1939

Robert Gwelo Goodman

Robert Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City Hall, Cape Town (1917) is a painting that has special relevance for…

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1888-1948

James M. Thaele

James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied at…

B-0068553

1925-2003

Louis Leo Mtshizana

Louis Leo Mtshizana was born in 1930. When Mtshizana was in Form 5 at Lovedale, after doing a study of Charles Dickens and reading Oliver Twist in English…

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