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1932-1997

Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai

… Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. According to South Africa’s Apartheid race classification laws, he was “reclassified” as a Coloured person…

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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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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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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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1920-2010

Robert Hodgins

… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…

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1939-2018

Hugh Masekela

… near Johannesburg . Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man with a Horn, …

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1915-1984

Thelma Gutsche

… Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West , Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal … enrolled at the University of Cape Town …

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1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was born of a musical family. Her grandfather and his sons were amateur organ builders and musicians; her…

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1978

Sibusiso Robert Duma

… Sibusiso Duma is a young artist who is presently making his mark within the … (qv.) through his Philange Art Project based in Umlazi, a township south of…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… he left South Africa in 1961. He legally changed his name to Hotep Idris Galeta in the late 1980s when he embarked on a personal spiritual quest.  He…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the Askeaton … for Alexandra, in Johannesburg, where he…

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1952

Lesley Lawson

… attended the University of Natal, Durban, where she did a Bachelor of Science Honours degree. In her first year at … came under the influence of  Dr. Rick…

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1956

Azhar Cachalia

… career by his father Ismail Mohamed Cachalia, who was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly in 1994, and … in the Gauteng Legislature) for three…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and … (ANC)  and its leaders, their release from…

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1845-1909

Jan Hofmeyr

… A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a … the Britons. Hofmeyr played peacemaker during the build up to the  Anglo-Boer War …

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1850s-1911

Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba

… Ntibane Mzimba, was educated in Lovedale and became a deacon in the Presbyterian Church. He attended school at … Presbyterian Church minister on 2 December…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School. Jo then left home to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she worked as a…

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1907-1995

Professor Harold Jack Simons

… in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached to a law firm and was then in the public service in Pretoria . …

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1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal . At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and ……

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… born in 1952 in Okalili, northwest Namibia. She trained as a nurse and in 1974 joined SWAPO-in-exile in Zambia. She was sent to Sweden to study on…

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1917-1997

Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje

… Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made his way to Fort Hare, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1944, later obtaining advanced degrees in … G.M and…

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1949

Cynthia Shange

… in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title Miss Natal, … and that made her the first Black…

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1870-1956

Honorine Margaret Withers

… studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa in 1910. A tireless traveller, she lived in Australia between 1915 and 1920,…

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1901

John Stephen Gomas

… completed most of his school before moving with his mother to the Malay Camp in Kimberly and becoming apprenticed to … Communist  Party of South Africa (CPSA…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a crusader for better housing for Johannesburg's Africans. He … rode horseback in Orlando and who…

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