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1957

Mohammed Valli Moosa

… later becoming branch secretary for Durban-Westville, and in 1977 was an executive member of the South African … that it was during this period that he…

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1957

Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla

… Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Natal. It was at … joined the United Democratic Front (UDF)…

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1939-2025

Sunny Girja Singh

… Singh was the youngest in a family with five brothers and two sisters. There were very few primary schools in the … Group Areas Act of 1950 , the 1956…

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1830-1913

Gordon Sprigg

… in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up his first job … East London, in what was then known as…

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1904-2002

Ernest Methuen Mancoba

… Grace Dieu near Pietersburg (now Polokwane, Limpopo) and received early guidance in wood carving there from Sister … this time, he served as the chairperson…

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1929-1985

Simon Moroke Lekgetho

… through correspondence. Apart from books on drawing and painting techniques which he acquired for private study, … Battiss (1906–1982). He started to paint…

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1913

John Watt (Jack) Grossert

… He was born in 1913 in Tweedie, KZN. He was a painter and graphic artist of landscapes, portraits and still life. He worked in oil, watercolour, ink, wash, ……

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1881-1963

Frank Wiles

… 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles . Prior to his arrival in SA … 1902, he studied in 1901 at the Cambridge…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… up in Sea Point where he attended Weitzman Primary School and then went to South African College High School (SACS). … a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of…

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1930

Zachius Botlhoko Molete

… parentage. His father was a teacher. He spent 1949 and 1950 at Kroonstad High School, where he was drawn into … conference of the  African National Congress …

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Harry Moyaga

… with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the … him in his quest to express the link…

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Unknown-1663

Doman

… Joan Cunaeus of his wish to become a Christian and of the fact that he had become so devoted to the Dutch … could live with his fellow Khoisan again. This…

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1937-2006

Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau

… chief, Sigcau was politically conscientised from childhood and this was reinforced at Lovedale College in Alice where … . She graduated with a BA degree…

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1965

Phila Portia Ndwandwe

… plan by the Port Natal Security Branch to abduct Ndwandwe and turn her into an informant as well. The police monitored their meeting and captured her after…

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1925-1976

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

… the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and goats. As a young boy, he was very adept at stick- … of political activities, Mdluli was…

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1917-1958

Christopher W. M. Gell

… polio in 1945.The son of British navy captain.In 1947 he and his South African-born wife moved to Rustenburg and later in Port Elizabeth. Although totally…

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1895-1962

Elliot Tonjeni

… Elliot Tonjeni was born in 1895 in the Transkei and later went to Cape Town, where he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) and was active in…

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1924-1961

Petros Molefe

… Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many…

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1942-2024

Edward “Eddie” Webster

… Edward Webster was born on 29 March 1942 and educated at Selborne College. He obtained a BA Honours degree and University Education Diploma from Rhodes…

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1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… David Webster was born in 1944, and grew up in the copper belt mines of Northern Rhodesia …   David became actively involved in the struggle and his first…

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1938

Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn

… in the home of her grandparents with her older brother and sister. When her grandparents died, her father, Henry … brother. She started primary schooling in…

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1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and later a member of parliament and speaker of the House of Assembly, and his mother was…

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1964-2000

Julius Thamsanqa Kuboni

… He attended the Lamontville High School until 1982 and was taught art by George Msimang.  In 1994 and 1995 he attended woodcarving workshops held at the…

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Rosalie van der Gucht

… Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech and drama…

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1945

Pieter Dirk-Uys

… going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape Town and the Johannesburg Market…

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1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… white Native Representatives Council (NRC) in the 1930s, and together with Senator Edgar Brookes helped to change … for new direction in the administering of…

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1949

Gill Marcus

… when she worked for the party’s Department of Information and by 1976 she had become the editor of the ANC’s weekly … the Weekly News Briefing that enabled…

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1899-1995

Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana

… in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time political organiser and journalist. In 1926 he joined the CPSA, becoming one of ……

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country estate outside … of that environment. Bailey was educated…

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1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… immigrated to South Africa shortly after Arthur's birth and he grew up in Ladybrand in the Free State Province.Letele … Native College, which later became…

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