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1908-1964

Molly Fischer

… . Her father, P.S. ‘Tottie’ Krige was a land surveyor and her mother, Emmy Bernsmann was the daughter of a missionary and a devout Christian. The Krige's had…

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1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… five children fathered by Hajee Joosub, a merchant, farmer and herbalist. Hajee Joosub treated the sick by providing free medicine, shelter and food. His…

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1921-2007

Arthur David Bensusan

… physician, he schooled at St John's College, Johannesburg and then commenced medical studies at Witwatersrand … South African Air Force at the outbreak of…

B-0096200

1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… assisted an Indian person who had been run over by a car and in 1960. In Wetton she was warned again, this time at … the Daane – van Rensburg family went…

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… 1903. His father, James Paton, a Scottish immigrant and civil servant, came to South Africa in 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of …

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1935-1988

Dulcie Evonne September

… Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was born on the 20th August 1935 in Royal rd, Maitland and grew up on the…

B-0009021

1930-2013

Amina Cachalia

… Transvaal (now Gauteng ) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of … Amina grew up without any consciousness of colour…

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1922

Elsa Joubert

… was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA and SOD) and Cape Town (MA in Afrikaans…

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1942-1991

Dumile Feni

… His mother died when he was only five or six years old and he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age … of eleven. He then began working for…

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1815-1892

King Sarhili kaHintsa

… on by 1) the encroachment of colonialists over the lands and sovereignty of the Xhosa , 2) the prophecy of Nongqawuse and 3) lungsickness which spread…

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1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… while his father was a shopkeeper, a shop assistant and unemployed respectively. Although not overtly political, … of Nazi concentration camp victims was…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she was forced to go and stay with…

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1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by  Nelson Mandela  and  Walter Sisulu . It was a play on his surname and a reference to his slight physique since many…

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek his fortune in South…

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1921-1984

Peter Becker

… the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years were … great significance, for being born to…

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… in Johannesburg  on 1 October 1945, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the   South African Communist Party (SACP) …

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1956-1985

Fort Calata

… was one of the accused in the Treason Trial . Fort Calata and his wife Nomonde met in 1974 in Cradock. In 1979, the … lived in Dimbaza, where Calata worked…

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South Africa after her marriage … who worked as a crime reporter. His…

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1697-1734

Jan Smiesing

… Slave Lodge, the world outside disappeared both socially and physically, in a building from which those inside could not see out and those outside could not…

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1942

Pitika Ntuli

… in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an active member of the struggle against the … pressure that was placed on the South African…

B-0122541

1942-1993

Chris Hani

… Transke i. He was the fifth of the six children of Gilbert and Mary Hani, and one of the three that did not die during infancy. The name Chris was adopted by…

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Anna Tempo

… Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner with her welfare work among blacks. She focused on visiting women in…

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1963

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane

… ). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters and five brothers. Mokonyane completed her matriculation at … organiser in the Federation of…

B-0096739

1943-2002

Duke Ketye

… Soweto. He completed Standard VII in King William\'s Town and matric at St Francis College in Mariannhill. In I960 and 1961 he attended Lumko Art School in…

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1936-1973

Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi

… Jazz scene. He taught himself to play the saxophone and the clarinet, and is said to have had a big showman personality as he was loved by many of his peers…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… he grew up near Vereeniging. His father was a carpenter and preacher and his mother a counselor and midwife who was also gifted in handicrafts.His political …

B-0125661

unknown-2011

Rev George Wauchope

… at the University of Fort Hare in the early 1970s, and went on to join the Black People’s Convention (BPC) . … banned in 1977 by Jimmy Kruger, then Minister…

B-0065257

1952

Antjie Krog

… degree with Afrikaans (cum laude), Philosophy (cum laude) and English at the University of the Orange Freestate and then she went on to obtain a Masters…

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1920-2010

Robert Hodgins

… Dulwich, London. In 1938, he immigrated to South Africa, and joined the Union Defense Force in 1940. In the Second … until 1944. During the same year he…

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1928-2004

Dolly Rathebe

… in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young woman, Rathebe was drawn to the…

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