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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… to South African Art and she furthermore became a life time member of the Simon van der Stel foundation. Prowse died …

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1932

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

… Youth League (ANCYL). He attended Healdtown for a short time in 1953 for its physical education course but was … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele …

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2016

Juda Ngwenya

… as London Times, The Observer as well as magazines such Time Magazine and Newsweek. Ngwenya photographed conflict …

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1955

William Kentridge

… around Johannesburg, which represent the legacy of a time of abuse and injustice. In a talk with art critic Okwui …

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1931-2015

Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena

… was a trained nurse before she became involved full time in the liberation struggle.   In the late 1960s and …

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1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… bomb was meant for Marius, however he was not home at the time, so it was open by Jeanette. The bomb killed Jeanette …

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… join their children. However, she had been ill for a long time and she was hospitalized in Edmonton, Canada, where she …

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1930-1985

Molly Blackburn

…  She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in Port … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod Mkele …

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1949

Norman Catherine

… which was finally published in 1995. Catherine spent time overseas, in New York and Los Angeles, working on …

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1895-1960

Sorabjee Rustomjee

… was charmed with the young man’s courage and gave him time to try his method of love. Sorabji reasoned with the …

B-0068389

1938

Nana Henrietta Moabi

… the few women who defied the gender impediments of the time to assert the right for the people of South Africa to be …

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1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… only one term. [xlii] In 2009, Maathai released The Challenge for Africa, a book provided a detailed analysis of …

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Shirish Nanabhai

… company. This eventually led to a trip to Japan and, over time, he learnt bookkeeping at the same company. By the time Shirish was born, the family had moved…

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1847-1914

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey

… of the Riet, east and west of the Modder Bridge, the first time trench warfare was ever used. On 28 November, Methuen's … the advance of General French's…

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… He was so taken with Albertina "that in a short space of time the question of marriage came up". Walter and Albertina … apartheid laws. James Moroka, ANC…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… in Doornfontein in Johannesburg. His manager at the time, who used to be a Major in the South African Army, asked … toiletries and food. When the clothes…

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Bisho Jarsa

… sailed back to Ethiopia in 1909. The rest had by this time married or found careers and opted to stay in South … , were fascinated by his part-Ethiopian…

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Benjamin Ulenga

… Namibia's northern border was open for the first time since South African mandate had begun. A massive wave of … 1986. One month earlier, John Pandeni , who…

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1944

Mongane Wally Serote

… violent dissention. Serote’s later novel,  Gods of Our Time  (Ravan, 1999), outlines the growing militancy of … think about what being in this place at this…

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1901-1968

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews

… history in its most crucial period. He was at the same time South Africa's, and perhaps the continent's, most … the scope for this type of leader might have…

B-0008500

1830-1913

Gordon Sprigg

… the territory. He applied the act in Basutoland, at the time administered by the Cape, and sparked the Basuto Gun War … (1896-1898) Sprigg became prime…

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1946-2010

Paul Alberts

… (text by the National Electricity Regulator). Moving In Time: Images of Life in a Democratic South Africa, KMM Review … and Europe. More recently he…

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1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… and in August 1947 their son Paul was born. During this time, under Bram’s influence Fischer became involved in South … wholesale and double their purchasing…

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1956-1985

Fort Calata

… Police offices at Sanlam in Port Elizabeth. Around this time the police set in motion plans to eliminate Calata and … the Rev. Beyers Naude and Rev. Alan…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… driver, a union organiser for sugar workers, and for some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the … unions and leading them into militant…

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… authorities and warders on the Island, as well as the time he spent in the punishment cells for what the prison … first seven years, Isaacs was in Cell C1 …

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1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… various projects.In 1985 Kearney was detained. It was the time of the attacks in the Inanda area and the burning of the … to kill him. Somehow he escaped…

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… however receive a lot of moral support. For a period of time he lived in the Netherlands, but moved to Clarens, … as Kruger’s family did not have a permanent…

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Alex Tikana

… is strongly supported by the local police. There is no time to be lost in Tikana’s case, as the available evidence … that he is one of the men behind the hut…

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