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1965

Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko

Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on the 2 April 1965, at Charteston Location, Nigel. She completed her junior primary education at the Jabavu East Community…

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1963

Lennox Madikane

Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo, the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now…

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1956-1979

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from then on only…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university he joined the…

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Billy Paddock

Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where he excelled at…

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1930-2017

Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba

Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba was born on 5 November 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa where he was also raised. His parents emigrated to…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South Africa. He was 75…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

Rica Hodgson was born on 1st July 1920. She devoted her life to the struggle for democracy, confronting the enemy at all stages of the struggle from the early…

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1927-2023

Blanche la Guma

Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…

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1913-1990

Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng

Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…

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Joseph Royeppen

in 1910, Joseph Royeppen, a Cambridge University graduate and a barrister, and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to legislation that prevents…

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A. Christopher

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1924-2020

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy affectionately known as ES Reddy has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a century. He…

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree…

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1933

Mildred Lesiea

Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…

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1948

Justice Zac Yacoob

Justice Zakeria “Zac” Mohammed Yacoob was born on 3 March 1948.  He became blind at 16 months because of meningitis. Yacoob attended Durban's Arthur Blaxall…

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1943-1989

Dr. Abu Baker Asvat

This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…

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1869-1944

Kasturba Gandhi

Kasturba Kapadia was born on April 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba…

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1946-2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala

Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province …

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike Horvitch's politics were fashioned out of his family's oppressed past…

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1938

Nana Henrietta Moabi

Nana Henrietta Moabi (nee Radadi) was born in Lichtenburg, Western Transvaal (now North West Province) on 18 September 1938. She completed her lower primary…

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1956

Jennifer Schreiner

Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner.  Else and Deneys were…

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1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

Thenjiwe Mtintso, was born on 7 November 1950 in Soweto, Johannesburg where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father…

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1949

Bee Berman

Bee Berman was born in 1949 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).After her schooling, Berman worked as a stage designer and actress at The Space…

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1956

Ben Mclennan

Ben Mclennan was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early…

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1948

Berney Perez

Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. He worked as an office machine technician while studying…

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1961

David Hartman

Dave Hartman was born in 1961 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. His mother was born…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

Jimi Matthews was born in 1955 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here.  After school he enrolled at a university that was…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD…

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1954

Michael Barry

Michael Barry was born in 1954 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). After receiving his schooling in Port Elizabeth, Barry worked as a…

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