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1900-1984

Princess Magogo

… classical music and was gifted in playing the ugubhu, (a stringed bow and a calabash instrument) and the isithontolo (a musical … which is like a bow which…

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1884-1953

John David Rheinallt Jones

… was born in 1884 in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of … 1920s and…

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1987

Mads Nørgaard

… and open source software developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work is, by and large, a body of…

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1893-1958

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

… as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in … now known as Modimolle, in the…

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With only a Standard 6 certificate (but later obtaining a matric via … of South…

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1959-2002

Peter Mokaba

… education. During the  1976 uprisings , Mokaba became a leader of school boycotts, which led to his expulsion from school. He nevertheless managed to … Act…

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1905-1992

Helen Joseph

… with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927. … then taught for three years in India, at…

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1920-2000

Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo

… School of the American Board of Missions and then went on to the Inanda Seminary, a private girls’ school in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal ), where … months later…

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Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe

… after the legendary Pretoria soccer player. This followed a meeting between the Lucas Moripe Foundation, family members … 2010. It was agreed that no…

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1938

David Nthubu Koloane

… Louis Maqubhela he visited art galleries in Johannesburg to learn more. In 1972 Maqhubela left South Africa to pursue … This was the first art gallery in…

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1920-2008

Lucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles

… born in Johannesburg, 1920. Wiles originally trained as a nurse. She also studied under Nils Andersen and Walter … Lucy’s work was on Xhosa people in…

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1944

Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi

… Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He was the first born to Maria and Manabane Rachidi and had three other siblings. … Sekitla High School in Hammanskraal. In…

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1850-1916

Lord Kitchener

… organized armies on an unprecedented scale and became a symbol of the national will to win. Kitchener rallies troops at the beginning of World … enlisted and…

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1960-1999

Sifiso Nkabinde

… born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of  Inkatha Freedom Party  (IFP). Nkabinde … failed his first year,…

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1969-2019

Philemon Masinga

… Province). At primary school level he showed the skills of a good soccer player.  Masinga attended coaching clinics by legendary player Jomo Sono and was…

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1927-2019

Ben Turok

… He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the University of Cape Town in 1950, he worked as a…

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1866-1966

Martha Helena Cillie

… of Stellenbosch, while another member, P.J. Cillié, made a valuable contribution to the development of fruit cultivation in South Africa. … Seminary, where…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… Champion left the school that year and was employed as a Native constable in Johannesburg. He retired from service … constable in Dundee, Natal, in 1915…

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Richard Goldstone

… at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with honours in 1962. World-renowned South … as advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. He…

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1953

Edwin Cameron

… his schooling at Pretoria Boys’ High School and thanks to an Anglo-American Corporation Open Scholarship award; … Stellenbosch University. At Stellenbosch,…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… started studying clarinet with Louis Nicholaeff, who was a pupil of composition and theory with Rimsky Korsakoff, at … studies in architecture at the…

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of Durban-Westville (now … African National Congress (ANC…

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1953

Penny Siopis

… with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video and … social and political situations in South…

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1914-2000

Constance Stuart Larrabee

… Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months … interest in photography began in 1924…

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2012

Fezile David Saphendu

… his father Bhityileyo also worked at the mines. According to his brother, Thembinkosi Saphendu, "Some of Fezile's colleagues called Ntsikelelo to alert him…

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1874-1959

Daniel Francois Malan

… D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He … at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed…

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1900

Esther Franks

… studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the second…

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1943-1967

Denise Darvall

… Earlier that day she was very seriously injured in a car accident in Observatory, Cape Town. Denise’s mother, … died immediately. Denise had multiple…

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1885-1970

Kerr Alexander

… Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years … Kerr family moved to Greenock where…

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