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1901-1983

Dora Tamana

… Her childhood centred mainly on the many tasks demanded of a young girl growing up in rural South Africa. Tamana and her four sisters had to help work on…

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1859-1942

Lord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne

… Oxford. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies from 1895 to 1900, when he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He came to South Africa to succeed Lord…

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2012

Cebisile Yawa

… his young daughter, parents and five siblings. According to Andile Yawa, Cebisile’s father, “I was forced to stop working due to my ill health. My son took…

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1952-1985

Ruben Xulu

… on 10 May 1952 and attended school in Mgangatho from 1955 to 1961. He began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hiabisa mission station and embarked on a life…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with dual British-South African nationality as a result of his parents living in South…

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1947-1972

Mthuli ka Shezi

… Mthuli ka Shezi was a leading Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) intellectual. He was also a playwright and a cultural activist. He was president of the … …

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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

… on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community Arts Project in Cape Town in 1986, and also…

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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… underwent military training in Ethiopia. On his way back to South Africa, he was captured in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and … conducting circumcisions on young…

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1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

… Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the  University … instructed him to leave for…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

… his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final … from the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC)…

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1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

… about Elias Moretsele's youth. At an early age he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native … of an eating-house in the city, which in…

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1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

… Lennox, with whom he had 6 children. He embarked on a political career and was Member of Parliament for … William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain from…

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1943-2000

Mampe Mosia Makhaya

… 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Makhaya obtained a BA Honours degree specialising in Russian, French and … Affairs on 1 August 1994, after which he was…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… Hilton College in Natal. After matriculating, he returned to Johannesburg where he started work at an architect’s … an architect from 1937 to 1941.he later…

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Victor V. T. Mbobo

… he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of … League and in 1947 was chosen as the…

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Dilizantaba Mji

… of the June 26 protest, and in 1951 he was elected to head the Transvaal Youth League. In 1952 he was elected to the  African National Congress  (ANC)…

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A. J. Sililo

… A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in  Durban … prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…

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Trineke Weijdema

… others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola . The whole of southern Africa became a zone of concern,…

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2012

Motisaoitsile Van Wyk Sagalala

… who were all financially dependent on him. According to his son, David Sagalala, "I want to see where my father died and how he died. I want those…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

… She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at … and 1895. (Mangena apparently used her father's name for a surname. In all her…

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1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

… was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died from malnutrition at a…

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James Ford

… James Ford was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of … Penstone (qv.) active in front of their…

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… on 3 February 1927 in Tulbagh, in the Cape. His father was a Glasgow trained physician with strong interests in … Belgian painter Maurice van Essche who…

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1957-1985

Richard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane

… of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) . Proud of his role as a fighter for freedom, Molokoane was scrupulously faithful to the ideals of the ANC and MK. Although he was…

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1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker. She worked as a domestic servant almost 15 years and then as a…

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1938

Nana Henrietta Moabi

… She completed her lower primary education at Pax-Engwe, a Roman Catholic school near Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal … information about enemy movements and…

B-0093134

1936

Moritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein

… Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From 1959-1970 Herbstein lived and traveled extensively to England,…

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1907-1988

Sushila Gandhi

… Mashruwallah was born in India and grew up in Akola, a city in the state of Maharashtra located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning…

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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… the BA degree of the University of South Africa and was a prize winner of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures. He was a…

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