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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards the end of 1952 to search for employment in Pretoria. He found a job at the City …

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1450-1500

Bartolomeu Dias

… of Dias was fraught with consequences, for at the time the search for a passage to the Indies was a move in the great … ill with fever and had lost their…

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Pauline Podbrey

… in 1970. Podbrey wrote an autobiography, White Girl in Search of the Party. She decided to return to South Africa … Distributive Worker’s Union, author of…

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Jeremiah Moraka

… While Chief Cebe and Moraka’s older son joined the search for Maphuti, there was no response from the police or …

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1936-2015

Letsau Nelson Diale

… Maphutha. In 1952, he left Ga-Masemola for Pretoria in search of employment. Immediately after stepping off the …

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… the constitution via a two thirds majority (see: National Library, Burton Collection, MSC 8 10 (17) ‘Native Affairs’ … since General Hertzog came to power in…

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1903-1938

Wolf Kibel

… to a purse-maker at nearby village of Kutna, haunted the library there and was dismissed from his work for …

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… a school teacher in England. Working as a volunteer in the library on the ANC’s archives, Forman held this position for …

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1892-1950

Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal

… he established the Pravasi-Bhawan, consisting of a fine library and a free school, at Bahuara, Khargarh near Sasaram …

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1968

Rebecca Malope

… 1986 Rebecca entered the ‘Shell Road to Fame’ music talent search, but was unsuccessful. Undeterred she re-entered the …

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Ambrose Makiwane

… the attention of the security police who would visit, search and interview him on his activities.  After completing …

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1948

Zanemvula Kizito Mda

… a Doctor of Philosophy in 1989, he became a Member of the Library Board, was made Head of the English Department, held … Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy…

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1928-2013

Judge Jan Hendrik Steyn

… coaxed reforms in the profession, raised funds for a court library (to which he insisted students should also be … by just one example: his fund-raising for…

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1944-1989

David Joseph Webster

… team. The students protested by organizing a sit-in at the library steps. In 1970, David Webster joined the University …

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1866-1951

Robert Broom

… Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. It was there that he began to search for early hominids, seeking more specimens of Dart's …

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… assist them in the abduction and killing. Despite frantic search efforts made by families to locate both Madaka and …

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Piet Retief

… who had already decided to leave the Cape Colony in search of a better place far away from British control. In …

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… Literature Awards were established. On 12 July 2007 the library of Pietermaritzburg was renamed the Bessie Head Library in her Honour. The Bessie Head Papers…

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1940

Ela Gandhi

… at Red Square. They used to march to the Brook Street library, which was an all White library, and enter the building. Ela walked with her brother, …

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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… of Architects Award (SAIA) for Excellence for the Workers Library and Museum in Newtown in 1996, in association with …

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1973

Mary Margaret Ngalo

Mary Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon James A. Calata, who was…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… insisted he wasn't at home and invited the officers in to search. They fortunately declined and left, not knowing that …

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Mithrasagaran “Murthie” Naidoo

  Mithrasagaran (Murthie) Naidoo was the son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo.  He worked as a clerk and was detained for political activities, without charges, for…

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1922-2009

Pauline Podbrey

… has recorded her experiences in the book, White Girl in Search of the Party. Pauline Podbrey passed away in 2009. …

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1961

Dali Tambo

… from all over the world are expected to visit the site in search for knowledge about South African leaders and history. …

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… for her or her remains, her family approached the media in search of their daughter. The family sent her pictures to …

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1940-1990

Ernest Cole

… due to financial constraints. Cole therefore went to search for a job, but was hindered by his lack of …

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1876-1958

Mabel Palmer

… taxi transport system to transport students, as well as a library service. Dr Palmer achieved all of this with the aid …

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1936-2016

Hermanus Gabriel Loots

… colonial government. Source: From the collections of the Library of the South African Parliament To this end it was a … education at Alpha in Lusaka, Zambia,…

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1924-2008

Zolile Malindi

Zolile Malindi was born on 16th of May in 1924 Gqogqora village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death…

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