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1949

Linda Komape

Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with her…

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1927-2005

Rev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse

Helenard Joe Hendrickse (better known as Allan) was born on 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles…

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Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s…

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1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in…

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1931-2012

Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson

Justice Arthur Chaskalson was born in Johannesburg on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past…

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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community…

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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent…

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1953

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe

Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor,  Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of…

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1959

Carl Niehaus

Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A…

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1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

Little is known about Elias Moretsele's youth. At an early age he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC,…

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1952-1985

Ruben Xulu

Ruben Xulu, born deaf on 10 May 1952 and attended school in Mgangatho from 1955 to 1961. He began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hiabisa mission station and…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

Stephen Lee was arrested in 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with…

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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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1901-1983

Dora Tamana

Dora Tamana (nee Ntloko) was born in 1901 in Hlobo, Transkei, the eldest of seven children. Her childhood centred mainly on the many tasks demanded of a young…

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1859-1942

Lord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne

Lord William Palmer, the second Earl of Selborne was born in 1859. He studied history at the University of Oxford. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies from…

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2012

Cebisile Yawa

Cebisile Yawa (24) was from Cala in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2007. On 16 August 2012 Cebisile was killed at scene 1 after being shot…

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1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

Politician and British Colonial Officer, Bathurst was born in Gloucestershire, England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In…

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1943-2000

Mampe Mosia Makhaya

Mosia Makhaya was born on 6 December 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Makhaya obtained a BA Honours degree specialising in Russian, French and Portuguese…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of  March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish immigrants. He was the youngest of four…

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Victor V. T. Mbobo

Victor V. T. Mbobo was born in the Cape, he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of the…

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Dilizantaba Mji

Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he…

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A. J. Sililo

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

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Trineke Weijdema

In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola. The whole…

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2012

Motisaoitsile Van Wyk Sagalala

Motisaoitsile Van Wyk Sagalala (60) was from Bophirima Setlagole in the Retlong Municipal District of the North West. On 16 August 2012 Mr Sagalala was killed…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal, probably between 1885 and…

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1923-1986

William “Bloke” Modisane

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…

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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 1904, but there is no record of him ever…

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

Frederik Bester Howard (Erik) Laubscher was born on 3 February 1927 in Tulbagh, in the Cape. His father was a Glasgow trained physician with strong interests…

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1957-1985

Richard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane

Richard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane was born on 27 August 1957 in Tladi, Soweto.  Molokoane became politically active during the student uprising of 1976, and…

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