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Vusi Mahlasela

… for music. Mahlasela made himself a guitar from tin cans and a fishing line and taught himself to play. He only started receiving formal … popular songs…

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1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her father was the nephew of Samuel Matshoba, … to Kagiso Township, Krugersdorp in…

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1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… Lady Selborne in Pretoria where two teachers, Mrs Lekala and Mr Selokwane, noticed his talent for drawing and colour. After his father’s death in 1964 he…

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1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents … at the age of two. He was then taken care…

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1951-2025

Rashid Lombard

… while attending Wittebome High in Wynberg, Cape Town, and through an uncle interested in the art form.   Lombard worked as a freelance photographer for…

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Ramnie Dinat

… Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo , worked in the Transvaal Indian … while distributing Congress leaflets, she was knocked down…

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1924-2008

Esther Barsel

… to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed her father to South Africa, settling … Nelson Mandela , Chief Albert…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… on 6 November 1950. Haffejee grew up in Pietermaritzburg and completed his primary schooling at St. Paul’s School and Marion School. He finished his…

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1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in … largely self-taught. He became a full-time artist in 1973…

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1847-1932

Harriette Emily Colenso

… helping in the publication of his Digest of Zulu Affairs and in his efforts to protect the Africans of Natal and Zululand against the threatening policies of…

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1936-2011

Bafana Cyril Dlamini

… was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His father, Steven Dlamini was a … of South African Congress of Trade…

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Tu Nokwe

… of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer. When her father performed at weddings and other…

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… Jean Sinclair was born in 1908 and became involved in politics after the Springbok Legion … to enforce racial segregation in demarcated areas, and the Senate…

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1922-2001

Sonia Beryl Bunting

… Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political … in 1950, she joined the staff of the…

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1925

Gertrude Shope

… , but grew up in Zimbabwe . She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto . When she was 29 years old she decided to join the …

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1959-2024

Tito Mboweni

… the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce … his studies there  because of his…

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1894-1961

Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure

… Faure who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi Lombard. Faure received her early education at Eendracht School and the…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Amato Textiles, he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage. He influenced other workers to fight for these rights and led a strike…

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1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… Amato Textiles, he advocated for the protection of workers and for a living wage. He influenced other workers to fight for these rights and led a strike…

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1959

Thandi Modise

… was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and aggressive reaction from police. When Modise was shot at … struggle was paramount…

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1963

Robert John McBride

… from the rural village of Harding in southern Natal, and a Coloured daughter of a Zulu-speaking mother and a Coloured father. Robert grew up in Wentworth, a…

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Charlene Smith

… she reported on the 1976 Soweto uprising  the dead bodies and the intense emotions it stirred. Charlene works voluntarily with rape survivors and people with…

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1963

Jeremy Vearey

… 50% built houses. It was a working class environment, and entirely Afrikaans speaking.Vearey grew up in a section … a large family, with both sets of…

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1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… in Trotskyite circles while studying at Sastri College and Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal) in Durban and the University of the…

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1798-1853

Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius

… the Cape Colony. He was educated by travelling teachers and became an eloquent speaker and writer in his later life. By 1837 he still lived in Graaff Reinet…

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1870-1946

Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo

… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique . She was born in the late 1870s…

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1936-2008

Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo

… attended school at Saint Angsgurs Primary School in 1946 and matriculated in 1954 from the Saint Peters Secondary … Robben Island. After his release, Masondo…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… As a young child, he already showed a talent in drawing and when he was a little older he took lessons from sculptor … in London. Here he taught drawing,…

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… in Natal in 1923. He attended secondary school in Richmond and in 1945 began part-time study toward a B.Com. Degree at … into business as an accountant, he…

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1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… for two years at a teachers’ training college, qualified and, following her passion for writing, immediately went to … began writing for the Golden City Post…

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