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1956-2009

Lucas Seage

… at the Open School under Nats Mokgosi and from 1978 to 1980 studied under Bill Ainslie, Ricky Burnett and Jenny … at the Bill Ainslie Studios, where he was…

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2012

Thabiso Johannes Thelejane

… in his buttock. He left behind his wife, two children and a grandson. He was the sole breadwinner for his family who … dependent on him. Because Mr Thelejane…

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1939

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe

… through standard six (now Grade Eight) before leaving to work. He was employed at several jobs and spent some years … in prison until around 1976, when he…

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1880-1919

Cecilia Makiwane

… district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a minister and so she was taught at home before she even … she and the other student she…

B-0008407

1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African … anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in…

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1936

Luli Callinicos

… and was involved in the trade union movement.  She became a member of the Congress of Democrats in her youth, and wrote several protest letters to newspapers…

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… Cape). He is the seventh of ten children of laborers on a sheep farm near Somerst East. While growing up on a sheep farm, Gerwel attended a church-based farm…

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1966

Andreas Vlachakis

… Vlachakis is a professional photojournalist who has been involved in the … both locally and internationally. He is currently a contributor to the highly…

B-0009208

1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the … Catholic priesthood before changing course…

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1950-2012

Zwelakhe Sisulu

… Zwelakhe Sisulu was born in Soweto on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu . He … trial in 1963. He returned to South…

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1943

Sindiwe Magona

… undergraduate education by correspondence, and later won a scholarship to study for her Master’s Degree in Social Work at Columbia … femininity, resistance…

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1930-2007

Elize Botha

… Afrikaans and Dutch languages and literature  earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1950, Masters of Arts in 1952, both cum laude. She obtained a Doctor of…

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1950

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

… of six children, the son of the Reverend Russell Saoli. As a child, he attended the Arthurseat Lower Primary School, … where his father was headmaster. When…

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1921-2007

Arthur David Bensusan

… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College, Johannesburg … and Italy as an aerial photographer,…

B-0096200

1942

Helene Marie Passtoors

… Hélène Passtoors, a Belgian national was born in the Netherlands (from a Belgian-Dutch family) on 9 August 1942. She immersed … tasks, and set up…

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Unknown-Unknown

Samuel Chibane

… was born in Pretoria and became involved with the PAC as a student at Wilberforce Institute in Evaton, near  … In 1963 Chibane was also charged with inciting…

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Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata

… Documentation related to Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 … and Weenen, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), culminated in a fight in which 23…

B-0093805

1959

Jane Alexander

… by their mixture of human and non-human elements and a disquieting presence. This is exemplified in her early work … eyes and deformed mouths. The three…

B-0007786

1873-1905

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

… Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale…

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1939-2013

Pius Nkonzo Langa

… March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957, he went to work at a shirtmaking factory until 1960. During this period he … matriculating in 1960. Langa…

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1817-1887

Jan Gerritze Bantjes

… Bantjes was born in Graaff-Reinet district. He was a member of Voortrekker leader Jacob de Clercq's group who … the  Great Trek  in 1837. He was appointed…

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1913-1967

Louis Washkansky

… Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to South Africa aged 9, and became a grocer in Cape Town’s Greenpoint area. Washkansky saw … lived an…

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1949-2010

Robert Edward Jansen

… alto saxophonist, composer, arranger and flautist, with a career spanning three decades. In the early 1970s, Jansen shot to fame as an original member of the…

B-0008196

1948

George Msimang

… in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left Lamontville High School in 1968 after completing Standard VIII. He came to the…

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1947

Ben Skosana

… was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later … the diploma in Social Development. He…

B-0068484

Unknown-1929

Hermanus Lethebe

… of 1929, the Minister of Justice, Oswald Pirow, announced a new bill, an amendment to the Riotous Assemblies Act, which would give him the … etc.  the Bill…

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1941-1985

Judson Diza Kuzwayo

… School.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) as a teenager in 1957,he organized community groups in the … was arrested the following year while…

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, … age of 13 and by the time he was 15 years old, he was a…

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