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1945

Professor Raymond Suttner

… University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was a political prisoner sentenced for ANC underground activities … without trial under state of…

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Mabel Balfour

… Mabel Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid … her participation in the April Stay-At Home and sentenced to £20 or 30-days hard…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… chief of western Pondoland in 1918. He was progressive as a chief, introducing improvements in agriculture, education, and legal administration. He was a…

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1909-1984

Joan Hoskyn Davies

… was born on Robben Island in 1909, where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944 she transferred to the…

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1986

Blessing Mabaso

…   In 2000, amnesty was granted to Mathys Botha, Johannes Steyn and Laurence Wasserman for … (TRC) found that the killings were associated with a political…

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1890-1978

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe

… died and he later married Agnes Masango.  He was invited to conduct a massed choir of 3000 school children at the welcoming … in Mthatha. In recognition of…

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1944

Wiseman Mbambo

… He was born at Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a sculptor of figures and he works in wood. He attended … school at the Umgeni Mission Station and trained as a…

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1948

Berney Perez

… tutelage of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez continued to work as a freelance photographer, working mainly in and around the Karoo area in South Africa…

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1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

… Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei . [i] Her father, … Chisholm MacDonald, who was born in New…

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1948

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

… Simakahle Ndebele was born on 4 July 1948 in Johannesburg to Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele and Makhosazana Regina Tshabangu. … of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland …

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1955

Zamokwake Samuel Gumede

…   He was born at Langkloof, Bergville District. As a boy he modelled cattle in clay. He attended the Langkloof Higher Primary School from 1962 to 1969.  In…

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2012

John Kutlwano Legingoane

… became aware of his grandson’s death when he came across a photograph of his grandson’s body published in the Daily … He left behind his grandfather, his…

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2012

Makhosandile Mkhonjwa

… He was the sole breadwinner in the family and left behind a wife and two young children. His customary law wife, … what I will eat tomorrow and in the future…

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2012

Thembelakhe Mati

… that he was stabbed; however it emerged that he died from a gunshot wound, probably from a ricocheted bullet. He was the only employed person in the … as…

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1906-1980

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi

… Nokwenjenje (nee Thuswa). He attended school at Cwecweni, a Transkei school situated between Engcobo and Idutywa. He moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become…

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1880

Ethel Edwards

… On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous … painting en plein air. The caption…

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1948-1996

Vuminkosi Zulu

… completed Standard VII at Kranskop High School. From 1970 to 1972 he attended Rorke's Drift. In 1973 he was awarded the … Hajee Sulman Ebrahim Memorial Trust…

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1922-1993

Rahima Moosa

… 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town . As a teenager, Rahima and her identical twin sister, Fatima … In 1951 she married Dr. Hassen “Ike”…

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1964

Thinus Mathee

… service in the SA Army. While at school, he developed a keen interest in photography. He photographed for the … force. After two years of national service he…

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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a provincial and thereafter appellate judge, Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was…

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Stanley Silwana

… Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA), he joined … school founded in 1925 in Ferreirastown, …

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1914

Josepha Selhorst

… She studied at UN(P) 1941-47 under Rosa Hope gaining a BA(FA) 1947 and 1956-57 at Düsseldorf State Academy attaining a testat. She was an art lecturer at St…

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1928-1980

Kate Dinkwetsi Molale

… Dinkwetsi Molale was born in 1928 and died in 1980 after a car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General … In 1978 she joined the delegation…

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2012

Mongezeleli Ntenetya

… and two nephews whom he supported financially. According to his uncle, Kolose Fundakubi, "We were weakened when we … going crazy, we all thought of the…

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1895-1985

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

… at the Onderstepoort Veterinary laboratory. Here she had to record in detail the post mortem appearance of various … the time of colour photographs. In 1927…

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1962

Derrick Vusimusi Nxumalo

… School. He received no formal art training. He worked as a waiter in a private hotel in Scottburgh and as a gardener on the Berea in Durban. He first went to…

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2012

Mzukisi Sompeta

… died about two months after he was killed. According to his mother, Nomawabo Mabhengu Sompeta, “Every month we … and clothes from him. He was in the process…

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1878-1914

Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie

… Fourie was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout and dispatch rider during the  South African War , … in an action north of Pretoria. After…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a typist for the African Iron and…

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