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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his father was a Greek businessman from a multifaceted background, with ……

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1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise Moseneke. He attended … participating in anti-apartheid…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian before her theatre debut in Stage Door … After an Arrest Under the Immorality…

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1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… democratic elections. Kumalo was the second Black woman to have won the title after Jacqui Mofokeng paved way for … Indian suburb south of Johannesburg . It…

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1952

Popo Molefe

… most of his youth living with his aunt. His mother was a domestic worker and his father a labourer, and he grew up poor. Molefe is married to Boitumelo…

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1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… Daluxolo Mpofu (popularly known as Dali Mpofu) is a South African advocate, legal expert, and former African … was born on 2 September 1962 (one of two other…

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1932

Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

… Chief Bloeu of the Kopa tribe. Although Matsepe came from a non-Christian family, he received his education at mission schools. From 1942 to 1949 he received…

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1878-1942

Paul De Groot

… Bouwmeester. De Groot travelled with repertory companies to the Far East, especially through the Dutch East Indies. He … Africa. Here, several ventures with…

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June Rose Nala

… plant. She described her first day on the job in The Road to Democracy in South Africa : We were taken into our departments...and told that you will be a…

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1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High school up to what was standard 8 in those days. Together with her twin sister, Rahima Moosa she became…

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1961

Graeme Williams

… at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity which had developed since his he was a teenager, but after developing intense…

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1739-1793

Baron Joachim van Plettenberg

… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden … at the University of Utrecht, he left the country in 1764 to become a member of the Council…

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2012

Thobile Mpumza

… nephews, all of whom he supported financially. According to his sister, Xolelwa Mpumza,"My brother's death broke my heart. It was very painful to hear that…

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1894-1982

Madie Hall-Xuma

… A. B. Xuma 's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she … North Carolina, and met Xuma, then a widower, on his visit…

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…

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1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… he met Moeneefa Samsodien whom he married and they had a son, David Lee. In the mid seventies, McKenzie moved to Johannesburg where he worked at Phillips as…

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1923-2016

Daniel Kunene

… Kunene was born in Edenvale, South Africa on 13 April 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the ravages of Apartheid, he completed a BA…

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1955

Diane Case

… race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in Wynberg where Diane attended Battswood primary school and Immaculata High School. A…

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1931-2017

Thandi Klaasen

… one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and a defining voice of the Sophiatown cultural renaissance. The daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic…

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 18 March 1936. F.W. de Klerk grew up in a political family, with both his father and grandfather … Bailey…

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1971

Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba

… 1971 at Eshowe , KwaZulu Natal . Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo Gigaba. He has three sisters and a brother. Gigaba did…

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1946

Malcolm Payne

… at The University of Cape Town (UCT). Payne works with a broad array of media, ranging from plastics, metals, or … life. These include televisions or trade…

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1957

Saleem Badat

… the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and Science Policy from … struggle, at considerable personal cost…

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George Montsioa

… received his early education at his home and later he went to England for higher education. He studied law and was called to the Side Bar, and returned to…

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1874-1932

Michiel Hendrik Nesser

… He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter … appeared in “Ons Klyntji”. S.J. du Toit…

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1954

Bheki Myeni

… 1954 in Hlabisa, Natal. Myeni's parents died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in Natal. Myeni…

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1958-1985

Watson Mzwandile Majova

… 1998, the Truth and Reconcilaition Commission prepared to exhume the bodies of Aaron Makwe, Watson Majova and Paulos Madiba on a farm near Boshoek, outside…

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2012

Mgcineni Noki

… Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009 and was a leader of the strike. On 16 August 2012 Mambush was killed … who also depended on him for…

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1964

Marthinus Hattingh

… with photography since an early age he decided to make it his career and decided to study photography. He completed his studies at Port … of photography at…

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