SAHO global search

1929-2010

Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews

… drafting of the  Freedom Charter . However, he was unable to attend the meeting in Kliptown as he was under banning … period, he undertook political work…

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Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… factory as a machine operator in Port Elizabeth from 1965 to 1968. He then left to study at the University of Fort Hare an obtained a … time at Fort Hare, he…

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1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… schooling at New castle Intermediary. In 1920 he started to train as a teacher at Milton school in Alcockspruit, going on to qualify as a teacher at St Chad…

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her … that she is also the author of two prose…

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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… one child with is wife, Josephine, nee van Zyl. He went to the local primary school and matriculated from Ladybrand … practising at the Side Bar for 17 years…

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1918-2000

Ismail Chota Meer

… KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He was forced to go to work at an early age when his father’s business collapsed in 1930. Meer  moved to Durban to…

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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… at the Wesleyan Methodist Primary School and from 1886 to 1888 at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school … he continued studying and in 1892…

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1937

Adriaan Vlok

… was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange River,…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… mother.  When she was three years old, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), then a British colony, … laws and published the first…

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1879-1966

Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo

… Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of the Transvaal Republic where … Kumalo herded cattle. Though forbidden…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from Eastern Europe who had come to South Africa to…

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1922-2013

Vesta Smith

… government’s policy of forced removals soon compelled them to resettle in Noordgesig, a designated Coloured area … active in the ANC until it was banned and…

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… University of Pretoria for a medical degree, however, due to lack of funds, converted his studies to a chemistry degree at the same institution, where he ……

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1934

Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga

… moulding clay as a child, and at around age fifteen began to teach himself how to carve. He sold his pieces to supplement his family’s income, but did not…

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1930-2006

Mazisi Raymond Kunene

… of Zulu Poetry, Both Traditional and Modern".He went to England on a scholarship from Christian Action in … passport. After a brief stint in Lesotho, Kunene…

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1926-2004

Anthony Sampson

… served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his connection with then editor Jim Bailey, Sampson became … Mandela , and writers like Nadine…

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1936-2011

Joseph Johannes Marks

… the local school where he completed Standard Five,moved to Cape Town where he worked in various semi-skilled jobs.First drawn to politics in 1952 after…

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1831-1900

Piet Joubert

… territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against the British. He led the commando that … became commandant-general of the…

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1937-2011

Fikile Charles Bam

… St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1960. … for guerrilla warfare) which was a study…

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1846-1921

James Smith Morland

… includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804). He came to SA with much experience of art societies, and this was to serve him well. Primarily a water…

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1962-2013

Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala

… Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer. … Matlala was so passionate about boxing that he…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… Alexander. From 1939, Budd was selected by the Government to be part of the National Board for Sheltered Employment for … Council of the union, a position he…

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1917-1978

Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh

… Singh. Her parents sent all three of their daughters to the Durban Indian Girls’ School in Dartnell Crescent, … She was part of the first group of five…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… the local mission school until grade 11 when he left to look for work in Durban. Nxasana worked in the textiles … of Textile Workers. In 1973, these unions…

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1966-1986

Andrew Sibusiso Zondo

… He attended Ngazane Lower Primary School and went on to Phakama Higher Primary School in KwaMashu. After … of detention for causing unrest in 1983. He…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… student radicalism in 1968 and intellectually drawn to Marxism, he made contact with the underground Communist … Anthony Holiday and joined while a student…

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1932-2013

Louis Luyt

… came under attack for his administration style and efforts to transform the sport into a professional one. He was … clashed with the  African National…

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