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1962

Greg Marinovich

… to Botswana's northern border, befriended SWAPO guerillas and discovered an interest in how people live under political … to South Africa, he got a job as a…

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… on 27 April 1950 in Cape Town . She married Desmond Engel and they have three daughters, Tania, Kim and Liza. Her exposure to apartheid injustices and…

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Richard Goldstone

… Goldstone was born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where … of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in 1989…

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1921

Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein

… wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21, she joined the Communist … among others; HA…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) … in India. He became politically…

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1953

Sandile Ngcobo

… of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and 1976. In 1975 Ngcobo graduated from the University of … earning distinctions in constitutional law,…

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1925-1983

Cassim Mohammed Bassa

… Mohammed Cassim Bassa the estate agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He … eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a…

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1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… in Lovedale, Monica Hunter Wilson went on to read History and Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge at the age…

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1961

Dali Tambo

… is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo , He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane Tambo. When Tambo was a…

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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… to Johannesburg in the early 1930s.He was a long-standing and respected member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a dedicated trade unionist…

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1941

Sue Williamson

… works predominantly in installation, photographic images and video, addressing social issues pertaining to civil … work extends from her previous occupation…

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1950

Yvonne Mokgoro

… in 2009 She was born in Galeshewe Township near Kimberley and matriculated at the local St Boniface High School in … in 1982, the Bachelor of Law (LLB) two…

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1945

Graça Simbine Machel

… secret police, she was forced to abandon her education and flee to Switzerland to escape the prison sentence that … operation, as well as storage facilities,…

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1959

Jane Alexander

… for her figurative sculptures, often appearing in tableaux and installations, and for her photomontages. Her figures are characterised by their mixture of…

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1929-2021

Norman Levy

… Born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania, Norman Levy and his twin brother, Leon (a founding member and later…

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1886-1957

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

… high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He … his primary education at the Surat…

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1787-1828

Shaka Zulu

… commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region…

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1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in … He was one of six children, with two…

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… he served his internship. He returned to South Africa and opened a general practice in Kliptown. Later he lived in … moved to Nelspruit in the late 1970s,…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA Balkema. But the one who was to transform that … his customers were bookish people:…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… KwaZulu-Natal) on 18 June 1929, to Vunina (born Nxasana) and Jotham Mvusi, second generation Christian converts and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely … in the church. There were seven children,…

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1901-1968

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews

… October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who later … to politics at a young age - his father…

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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was … older brothers, Oliver (1848-1854), Albert (1843…

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1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… education; his father was a headmaster of a primary school and his mother was involved in teaching. Archie was sent to Healdtown, and a significant influence…

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1964

Berni Searle

… She is concerned with the complexities of identity and belonging in relation to language, race, colour, gender and the History of South Africa. Searle also…

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1886-1982

Henry Selby Msimang

… born on 13 December 1886 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. He and his elder brother, Richard Msimang,were born to Joel Msimang and his wife Joanah Radebe. Joel…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… South Africa with his family where he spent his childhood and teen years. Being the son of South African composer and music director Stanley ‘Spike’ Glasser,…

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1911-1999

Harry Snitcher

… 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924, the young Snitcher and his four…

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