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1945

Achmad Cassiem

… to Robben Island, where he served his sentence and became one of the youngest people to be imprisoned on the Island. … order. He was not allowed to…

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1945

Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe

… fast-tracked for advanced training in Moscow. She was one of three women who were chosen for the programme. After … Sedibe was deployed in for a period in…

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… of South African Women (FEDSAW)  in 1954. She was later one of the leaders of the Women’s March on the 9th August … she also formed part of the president’s…

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1936-2021

Frederik Willem de Klerk

… is Dr Willem (Wimpie) de Klerk, a political analyst and one of the founders of the  Democratic Party . After … dispensation for South Africa, based on the…

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… court interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one of the founders of the ANC newspaper,  Abantu-Batho,  and … was defeated by C. S. Ramohanoe…

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1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… aged 75 after a long illness and is survived by his wife, one son, three daughters, as well as two sisters and one brother. …

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… at Hewat Training College in CT before joining UWC, he was one of only two black UWC lectures at the time. In 1978, he … senior academic positions. In 1980,…

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1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… André Philippus Brink was born on 29 May 1935, in Vrede one of the small towns in Orange Free State. His writing … he wrote Meul teen die hang. Together with…

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1917

Bonakele Mali Khana

… Bonakele Mali Khana was one of 616 South Africans that died when the SS Mendi  sank …

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1919-2017

Peter Henry Abrahams

… a special program, completing three years of school in one. He was able to attend school regularly for three years … job, sending him back to work at the…

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1841-1898

Nongqawuse

… by Major Gawler at Fort Murray, which is not deemed as one hundred percent reliable: Major Gawler: Do you know … homestead to see Nongqawuse and hear of the…

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1961

Dali Tambo

… launching his production and TV career in South Africa. One such production was Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom … years and in 2012 it was revived by…

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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… Youth League (ANCYL) in about 1947 in Newclare and became one of the organisation's organisers. When the Strijdom … Areas Protest Committee. Modise was very…

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1915-1974

Michael Alan Harmel

… of Inkululeko, alongside  Edwin Mafutsenyane .Harmel was one of only two members of the Central Committee who opposed … South African Congress of Trades…

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… in Kimberly and the Cape Colony in general. Sol Plaatje, one of the founders of the African National Congress (ANC), … Times obituary) In 1903, he asked, in…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… of his poems, though satirical, had a political undertone. One of these was “The Blues is you in me”, and the collection … Sepamla has also written novels,…

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1972-2009

Thabo Motene Marera

… SABC. About ten years ago, he approached Velocity Films (one of the top 25 commercials film companies in the world) … United States, requesting a scholarship…

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1939-1997

Enos Mabuza

… He was appointed Inspector of Education in 1972, to become one of the youngest Black educationists in his country. He became a one of the first authors of…

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Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family … up by the  Communist Party (CPSA)  in…

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1920-2005

Raymond Mhlaba

… Mazoka village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.He was one of eight children of a policeman. Five of his siblings … cause of freedom.... He grew to…

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1921

Thembile Benson Ndimba

… of the people from the African township of Korsten and one of Korsten's leaders since then. …

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Jomo Kenyatta

… village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ”” one of five administrative districts in the Central Highlands … surgery was successfully carried out on both…

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1938-1999

Ezrom Legae

… In 1959, Legae studied in the Polly Street Art Centre, one of the first places to bring artists from different areas under one roof. During the 1950’s, it…

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1932-2002

Soromini Kallichurum

… (now kwaZulu-Natal ). In 1950, Soromini Kallichurum was one of the first 12 undergraduates to enrol at the … Natal University Medical School in the Apartheid…

B-0098100

1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… in Accra, Ghana. While he was on his way back to Botswana one of his comrades composed a song Fatshe leno La Rona (Our Land) which he taught them. Thus, Mpho…

B-0008685

1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… the personal attorney of Nelson Mandela and, as such, was one of very few South Africans to have had unique access to … on Robben Island . It has been said…

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1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… aspects of theatre. Govender had written a story, on one of the people who had taken part in King of the Dark … three-week course, Shah selected three plays…

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1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… of the Transvaal Indian Congress in 1958, and he was one of the founders of the Human Rights Committee in 1973. He … kicking and pushing me, saying ‘Now we…

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