SAHO global search

1940-2011

Wangari Maathai

… Muta Maathai Anchor was a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist. Maathai is internationally renowned … in advocating democracy, environmental…

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1958

Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande

… Union of Democratic University Staff Associations (UDUSA) and the National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) and served in many NGOs supporting mass and…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Tengo Jabavu , a politician turned journalist who founded and also became the editor of the first Black-owned newspaper … renamed the University of Fort Hare…

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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children, and grew up with his grandparents. He was forced to leave … began his musical career singing in…

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David Perumal

… lived in Derby Street, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and worked at College Clothing in Albert Street. He was educated up to standard six (grade eight)…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… of the nurses on strike. The bond between Zondeni Mathe and  Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe  grew and on 6 June 1954 she married him. She received the … they had…

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1926-2008

Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa

… in 1948-49. where he became involved in politics and met P. K. Leballo. In 1949 he was recruited into the … in the Rivonia Trial. Mfaxa taught for a short…

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1945

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva

… He did not learn to read until he was 10 years old and quit school after the fourth grade to find work to help … family.  His working life began at 12 as a…

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1959

Cheryl Carolus

… family. Her father was employed as a printer’s assistant and her mother worked as a nurse aid. She attended local schools and was selected as head prefect in…

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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959.  She then went on to study for a … Maggie was self-taught. Working…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town . She grew up in Mooi River and completed her high school education at Pietermaritzburg … worked as a secretary at Michael…

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1893-1958

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

… with the United Party (UP) formed by  J B M Hertzog and  J C Smuts . He became the Transvaal provincial leader of the National Party (NP) and devoted his…

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… at Elim, Limpopo province. Ntsanwisi received a BA (1962) and MA in African studies (1965) from the  University of … took him to Georgetown University in…

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1955

Jimi Matthews

… in 1955 in Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here.  After school he enrolled at a university … between several jobs including…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the Askeaton Primary School, the Matanzima Secondary School and later…

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1930-2018

Billy Modise

… imposed by apartheid which forced black people and his personal experiences of racism served as a political … Just after completing his matriculation,…

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1924-1999

Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia

… liberation struggles in two countries, namely, India and South Africa. In 1936, faced with economic hardship, his … an active role in the Indian Congress…

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1940

Gille De Vlieg

… city. After losing their home in a later bombing raid, she and her mother relocated to Durban, South Africa in February … on radar installations at the …

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

… family, one of 12 children of a Christian, Coloured mother and a Muslim shopkeeper. He matriculated from Trafalgar High … Indian Congress (SAIC), which stood…

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1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

… Youth League (ANCYL) branch in East London in 1948, and ‘in organizing East London for the stay-at-home of 26 June 1950 and the 1952 Defiance Campaign.’…

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1928-2009

Suliman Moosa Esakjee

… Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the  Transvaal Indian Congress … the Joint Secretary of the Transvaal…

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1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… child. Consequently, she suffered physical abuse and neglect by her relatives. This resulted in her being … a local Aberdeen school. Craig provided for Dora…

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood, and his wife Frances Elizabeth Wood (nee Hoole). Her grandfather. George Wood, was an 1820 settler and…

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… the youngest of eight children. His father was a Minister and teacher who had left Malawi in 1904 and his mother was the first African woman to teach in … in…

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1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic … the possibilities of the playfulness in the…

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1950

Peter Jones

… after his death,” Peter Jones remembers sadly. Steve Biko  and Jones were arrested in Grahamstown , but separated in … cells. “Although I was very anxious…

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1915-1972

William Frederick Nkomo

… He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng and Klerksdorp. His secondary education took place at St Peter…

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1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… at the Mooki Memorial School. His talent was recognised and encouraged from an early age by his teacher, Mrs E.L. Mooki, and later at Orlando High School in…

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1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… Mpumelelo Grootboom, controversial and liberal playwright was born in Meadowlands, Soweto in … one to grade seven. His Grandmother was the Principal and had…

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1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

… to 1952 he was a pupil at St. Mary’s school in Orlando and went on to attend St.Peter’s (now St. Martin’s, Victoria) … in shaping political activists such as…

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