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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson, a former Methodist Minister was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two…

B-0080695

2012

Telang Mohai

Telang Mohai (37) was from Lithabaneng, Maseru in Lesotho. He had been working for Lonmin since 2003. Telang was killed at scene 2 after he was shot twice in…

B-0121629

2012

Mphumzeni Ngxande

Mphumzeni Ngxande (38) was from Lujizweni, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2008 and lived with his wife at the Nkaneng informal…

B-0121634

1933-1965

Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape. After her parents’ divorce, Jonker…

B-0008212

1963

Robert John McBride

Robert John McBride was born on 6 July 1963 at the segregated Addington Hospital in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in the section set aside for Coloured…

B-0067934

1963

Alson Ntshangase

Ntshangase was born at Nongoma, Zululand. He attended art classes at KwaBazini CP School; he did his secondary schooling at KwaZide High School; he had to…

B-0008827

2012

Mphangeli Tukuza

Mphangeli Tukuza (41) was from Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2000. On 16 August 2012 Mr Tukuza was killed at scene 1 after being…

B-0121624

1981

Isaac Mofokeng

Isaac Mofokeng was born in Rustenburg in 1981. He attended the Mokutuli and Seipone primary schools in Sebokeng and Orange Farm respectively. Later he attended…

B-0008596

1949

Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela

Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus, after which her family was forcibly moved to Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. She…

B-0007811

1921-1976

Leslie Massina

Leslie  Massina was born in 1921 in Pimville, Johannesburg, Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective…

B-0008477

1853-1915

Heinrich Egersdorfer

Heinrich Egersdorfer was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1853. He trained in lithography in Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the…

B-0008043

1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

  Mandla Nkosi was born on 13 June 1962 in Pimville, Soweto, the third child of Joyce Nkosi. In 1981 he completed Standard Nine at the Sekano Ntoane School in…

B-0008804

1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township,…

B-0068448

1949

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi was born on 27 January 1949 in Durban.From 1974 to 1976 Nkosi studied painting, graphics, sculpture, weaving and ceramics at Rorke's…

B-0008806

1939

Wopko Jensma

Wokpo was born on 26 July 1939 in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom, but his studies were temporally…

B-0008203

1870-1955

Allerley Glossop

Allerley Glossop was born in Twickenham, England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She farmed…

B-0008101

1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

Ricardo Rangel was born on 15 February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his father was a…

B-0099470

1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

Dikgang Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise…

B-0077610

1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

Actress Yvonne Bryceland, née Heilbuth, was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian before her theatre debut in Stage Door…

B-0007894

1952

Popo Molefe

Molefe was born in 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was one of eight children, and spent most of his youth living with his aunt. His mother was a domestic…

B-0008620

1932

Oliver Kgadime Matsepe

Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe was born on 22 March 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua Matsepe, senior police sergeant and…

B-0008494

1878-1942

Paul De Groot

Paul de Groot was born in Surabaya, Indonesia on 11 January 1878. Paul de Groot received training for the stage at the Toneelschool in Amsterdam. His directors…

B-0007982

June Rose Nala

June Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

B-0094717

1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High school up to what was standard 8 in those days. Together with…

B-0068443

1739-1793

Baron Joachim van Plettenberg

J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and Agatha Petronella van Ammena…

B-0068652

2012

Thobile Mpumza

Thobile Mpumza (26) was from Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009.He was dismissed in May 2011 after taking part in an…

B-0121636

1894-1982

Madie Hall-Xuma

A. B. Xuma's wife, Madie Hall-Xuma and a prestigious figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL)…

B-0009246

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…

B-0008504

1961

Graeme Williams

Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity…

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