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1920-2010

Robert Hodgins

… even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my experience,  my thinking,  my aspirations." … 27 June 1920 in Dulwich, London. In 1938, he…

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1867-1946

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

… as leaders in the ANC and in the politics that shaped South Africa.He was the fouth president of the ANC in the … ‘tumultuous almost no-win politics of a…

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… teacher before switching to journalism during Second World War. Williams then worked as a theatre director producing … acquitted. His involvement in…

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1894-1982

Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart

… and Aletta Catharina Swart (nee Robberts). During the South African War (1899-1902) Swart's father was captured and the young boy … acting in a film. In 1921…

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… Watts.After that they both joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and both got elected as Distric Committee … in the South Africa artillery and…

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1853-1917

Dr. Leander Starr Jameson

… health broke down from overwork in 1878 and he migrated to South Africa and settled down to practise in Kimberly. He … Colquhoun, and he was central in the…

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1854-1922

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

… in 1880. De Wet was twenty-seven when the First Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1880. He fought with the Heidelberg … an offensive that heralded the Boer revival…

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1960

Penelope Jane Dunlop

… career. In 1988 Powers performed at a charity event for war orphans in Zimbabwe , where she shared the stage with … a year later, her song with Ladysmith…

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior … and editor of its The African Teacher.  During the post…

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1909-1983

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

… Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - … underground and armed struggle in…

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Pauline Podbrey

… 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to South Africa a few years previously. Podbrey’s father was … CPSA was not very strong. At the end…

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1933

Motsoko Pheko

… death of their parents, Pheko and his brother came to South Africa to live with their aunt, E.M. Moerane. In 1960, … launched Daystar Communications in…

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1856-1919

Saul Msane

… Transvaal. Msane was one of the founding members of the  South African Native National Congress (SANNC)  in 1912. … was a failure. Directly after the…

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1890-1938

Wilhelmina Louisa Freund

… F.R. Benson and Herbert Beerbohm Tree On returning to South Africa in 1912 she was appointed as teacher of … thereafter moved to the Hiddingh Hall. During…

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1941-2010

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche

… Terre'Blanche, fought as a Cape rebel in the  Second Boer War .  His father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the then  South African Defence Force  and also the…

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1884-1933

Richard Msimang

… Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange … to Britain. Directly after outbreak of…

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1847-1914

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey

… They had ten children. He fought in the  Basotho War  of 1865 and the war against  Sekhukhune  in 1876. He did … Cronjé's cumbersome wagon-train, because he…

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1941

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

… Movement (NEUM – now known as the New Unity Movement of South Africa).  After completing her university degrees, … “From time immemorial, rape has been…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… credited with introducing a modern school of sculpture to South Africa during her early career, she was often … appeal to the buying public of the day…

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went … Non-European Soldiers` Dependents League…

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1935

Judge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs

… His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs , had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray…

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1991

Mokgadi Caster Semenya

… simultaneously breaking the 800m Senior and Junior South African records held by Zelda Pretorius at 1:58.85, … when Semenya was 18 years old she won gold in…

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David Bruce

… David Bruce received a call-up notice from the South African Defence Force (SADF) in July 1987. His choices … a pension clerk, served in the British air…

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1948

Zanemvula Kizito Mda

… Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and … featured in the British Broadcasting…

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Billy Paddock

… , which argued strongly for Christian social justice in South Africa. He later returned to the university and … the plight of South Africans and the urgent…

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… 1938. He was elected secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA – now the South Afrian Communist Party – … Dawood Seedat was a most vociferous…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to … 1941 and 1944, Suzman worked as a statistician…

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Thomas G. Karis

… service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading historian of the South … their surname from Katritses to Karis at…

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1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… at Odibo. He was part of the Native Military Corps for the South African Defence Force in the Second World War between 1942 and 1943. He taught at St. Mary’s…

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