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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from … the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa…

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1938-2005

Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka

… Tribal School. In 1954 he went to Kilnerton High School and in November 1958 he completed his Matric. Phokanoka’s political influence came from various…

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1946-2006

Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley

… KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley, a teacher and later Director of the Durban Indian Child Welfare … Durban,…

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1934

Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu

… at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu.  He attended the local primary school and in Standard Six he went to live with a white…

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1957

Michael Madimetja Teffo

… East. At the beginning of his early career, Americans and Australian diplomats attended his exhibitions and purchased his work. His first solo exhibition…

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1937-2011

Fikile Charles Bam

… Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) … means of achieving liberation. In…

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1914-2006

Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo

… . She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930 but lost it soon afterwards … she was very young, Ellen grew up…

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1933-1986

Fabian Defu Ribeiro

… of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee Mothibe). His father came from Beira, Mozambique and passed away in 1942…

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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

… Department of International Affairs, on the North American and European Desks. She also worked as the Administrative … Committee. This post demanded her to…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the Fascadale Mission … him a job. When World War II broke out,…

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1919

Olive Peace Landman

… 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika and Ellis were teachers, having trained at Emgwali and Lovedale…

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1955

Eric Miller

… of power he left the corporate world in the mid-1980s and joined Afrapix. During this time he began documenting the … for progressive publications including…

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Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa

… 1952 in Okalili, northwest Namibia. She trained as a nurse and in 1974 joined SWAPO-in-exile in Zambia. She was sent to … to study on scholarship from the…

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1921-2020

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

… was a hardened warrior who had fought against the British and, in turn, forbade her to become a Christian. Caught … When the pregnancy was discovered, a…

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1956

Richard Steele

… Richard Steele was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father … Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very…

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1932-2002

Soromini Kallichurum

… her research into lung diseases in the Black population, and went on to pursue a career in anatomical pathology In the 1970s, disillusioned by academic…

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1917-2009

Helen Suzman

… mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from Eastern Europe who … was brought up in a family which was…

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1656-1734

Anna De Koningh

… Oloff Bergh was of Swedish descent. He was born in 1643 and arrived at the Cape in 1676 when he was only 24 years … He became a trusted employee of Governor…

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Potlako Leballo

… In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and enlisted in a non-European transport unit of the South … African Army. After the war, he…

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1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and subsequent forced removals in the 1950s, his family moved … It was the untenable conditions of…

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1936

George Sewpersadh

… Manor on 7 October 1936. His father was a newspaper vendor and his mother a housewife. His family was forced to move to … to Sastri College in Durban where…

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1932-2016

Mewa Ramgobin

… as indentured labourers. His father was born in Inanda and from humble beginnings became a successful farmer. … of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal…

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1980

Lindiwe Mazibuko

… to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. Her father was a banker and her mother a nurse. Mazibuko grew up in Durban and matriculated at St Mary’s DSG in Kloof in…

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1886-1946

Franciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt

… He was the son of a famous sculptor Jan Frans de Vriendt and his wife, Catharina Maria Philomina Eulaers. De Vriendt … the stage. He trained at the Theatre…

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… Colony from 1907 to 1910. Abram had married a Scotswoman and Percy had married Ella Fichardt, of a family of … English speaking. Bram, who was brought up in…

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1985

Bathandwa Ndondo

… him. He completed his Primary education at Cala Village and obtained his Matriculation in 1980. Ndondo then … police regularly raided the home of the…

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1950

Martin Plaut

… South Africa in May 1950.  His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had … a shop on the Cape Town Foreshore …

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1881-1971

Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane

… Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous farmers. After his primary school education in … qualified as a teacher in 1901. He…

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1932-2005

Arthur Maimane

… Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and president of the African National Congress (ANC) . Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Father Trevor…

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1952

Oupa Joshua Gqozo

… born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled labourer and religious minister. At his young age…

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