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1945

Pieter Dirk-Uys

… in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. … Uys writes, directs, performs and produces…

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1943-2005

Ronnie Levitan

… where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an … at the urban problems research unit at UCT…

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1934-2010

Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu

… Sonnyboy Bhengu was born on 8 November 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera … of Don Mattera, also of Sophiatown. Bhengu…

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… Wangari Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. … was of Kikuyu ethnicity. In 1964, Maathai graduated with a…

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1909-1969

Dr. Philip Blaaiberg

… Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending a year at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. As a newly qualified dentist…

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1877-1957

Walton Zacharias Fenyang

… Free State. Educated at Healdtown Institution, he was a chief of the Barolong, a subgroup of the Tswana, and owned a large farm in the Thaba 'Nchu reserve…

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member of the ANC Youth…

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1942

Letta Mbulu

… then England with the musical  King Kong . She returned to South Africa at the end of the tour but was soon forced … Belafonte. Her relationship with Harry…

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1958

Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande

… (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 14 April 1958. In the 1980s, he was a member of progressive education organisations, including … General Secretary of the SACP since…

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1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… he joined the underground Pan African Congress (PAC) as a 15-year-old in 1961, attracted by the vision of a black-ruled South Africa. Arrested in May 1963…

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Diana (Di) Bishop

… statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic. During the celebrations, she refused to attend a military display, influencing her other…

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1958-2004

Martin Tose

… Tose was born when Dr Hendrik Verwoerd was chosen to succeed the country’s late Prime Minister, Johannes … Strijdom after he died in 1958.  He established…

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1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… 1957 and was elected onto the ANCYL's Transvaal executive a year later. During this period he was also involved in the … and was detained on 28 March that…

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1931-2015

Lauretta Ngcobo

… Lauretta* (1)  Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s…

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1933-1986

Fabian Defu Ribeiro

… the Jane Furst School in Glen Cowie, and from standard six to standard nine attended school in Lesotho in preparation … started his studies in 1951 at Fort…

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1869-1948

Franklin Kaye Kendall

… Kendall was an architect whose interests led him to join SASA as both artist and administrator. Born in … Cape Town in 1896, soon after joining Sir Herbert…

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1936

Lionel Davis

… Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts … Certificate. After his release he was…

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… at his home in Soweto on 31 January 1977 and taken to Pietermaritzberg where he was held in terms of section … police in Natal,said that Mr Malinga had…

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1932

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

… tenth grade at Newell High School, then in 1952 he earned a teaching diploma at Lovedale. While there he attended … Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He…

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2016

Juda Ngwenya

… was approached by the renowned news wire services, Reuters to join the organisation. In a career spanning over two and half decades, Ngwenya has … Mandela…

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1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… Province Workers’ Advice Bureau. The aim of the Bureau was to help workers with labour problems but it became the basis … Union. Curtis moved to Johannesburg…

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1961

Brett Murray

… at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in sculpture. In 1992, he established…

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1922

George Edward Peake

… George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the  South … finished 10 years of schooling and became apprenticed as a bricklayer…

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… attended school in Catholic mission and then he went to study private to finish his matriculation exams.He was a farm worker,domestic servant,policeman,cleck…

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1948

Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla

… the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in … English and Law at the Botswana…

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1909

Selby Bangani Ngcobo

… Ngcobo was born in 1909 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of a mine compound foreman who later became a teacher and saddler, Ngcobo studied at Adams College, Fort…

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1912-1957

Gladstone Xala Tshume

… South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown. He later moved to Port Elizabeth where he was employed in a pharmacy…

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1904-1986

Jean van der Poel

… van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of … In 1929 Van der Poel…

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