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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… students on their campuses.  They had to attend part time lectures in the evening, from eight o’clock, off-campus. The …

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1928

James Randolph Vigne

James Randolph Vigne was born in 1928 in Kimberley and grew up in Port-Elizabeth. He went to school at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown where he enjoyed a…

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1930-2013

Ismail Jacob Mohamed

Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother,…

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1917-1979

Benjamin Magson Kies

… on a regular schedule of cultural activities, principally lectures and debates. To these events came a wide cross-section of Cape Town’s people. The lectures…

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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… Warwick Avenue campus, where he and guest speakers gave lectures on Marxism and other topics reflecting the thinking … transforming education into a more…

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1899-1983

Ernst Heinrich Daniël Arndt

Arndt, the youngest son of Reverend Johannes Arndt and Luise Pauline Grutzner was born in Bloemfontein on 27 May 1899. He started his education at the Infants’…

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1923-2004

Anthony Richard Stubbs

Anthony Richard Peter Stubbs was born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1923, and educated at Eton, at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the College of the…

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1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced).  Nkosi…

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1931-2019

Babette Brown

A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world, Babette Brown was born in 1931 in Johannesburg,…

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1949

Renfrew Leslie Christie

At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the South African Army. He was on guard at Lenz ammunition dump (east of Johannesburg), when he saw…

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1949-2014

Jabu Sithole

Jabu Sithole was born on 23 October 1949 in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where he attended primary school until age seven when he was struck…

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18 May1940-2008

Alan Keith Brooks

Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…

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1941-2023

Stephanie Kemp

Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the Dutch Reformed…

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1941-2021

Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane

… Available at: https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02426/05lv02618.htm . …

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1940

John Maxwell Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…

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1894-1961

James la Guma

… conference la Guma was invited to tour Germany and give lectures. He surprised audiences with his fluency in the …

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John Jacques William Aitchison

John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…

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1945-1996

Ruth Naomi Leon

The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the Cape Province (now…

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1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… ects.news24.com/impeached-seven-years-of-busisiwe-mkhwebane/index.html accessed 09 April 2024 . Accessed 02 April 2024. … Groenkloof chambers. no date. https…

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1928-2010

Professor Fatima Meer

… spoke against the country’s apartheid policies. Her lectures and conference papers made a major impact on …

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1956

Paul Weinberg

… of visual archives at the University of Cape Town, and lectures in documentary arts also at the university. He …

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1913-1999

de Villiers Graaff

Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…

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1939

Marcus Solomon

… Solomon became interested in politics and began attending lectures at the New Era Fellowship. During Solomon’s first … It generally met fortnightly, and its…

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1974

Stella Nyanzi

Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of twins), she is a medical…

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1940-2013

Adrian Leftwich

Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…

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1948

Sumboornam Pillay

Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…

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Jomo Kenyatta

… the next few years Kenyatta travelled around Kenya giving lectures and campaigning for independence. In September 1951 …

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1936-2016

Adam Small

Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…

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