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1921-1980

President Seretse Khama

… year-old Kgosi’s regent and guardian. Seretse was sent to South Africa for his education, and in 1944 he graduated with … President Botswana had the fastest…

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1906-1966

August Aime Balkema

… Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, … students and qualified professionals…

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1921-1995

Jo Thorpe

… High School. Jo then left home to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she worked as a secretary at Michael … South…

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1924-1994

Elias Mathope Motsoaledi

… in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the third of eight children. At the age … led CNETU and reached about 150,000…

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1924-2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

… he got a scholarship to the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. While there, he joined the African National … of 1961, Mugabe publicly discussed…

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1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… and a deeply religious man who decided to move to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War. The…

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1908-1982

Monica Hunter Wilson

… by her husband’s tragic death at the end of the Second World War. Monica and her husband Godfrey did fieldwork together in … the first woman to be appointed…

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1949

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

… activities while serving as the Deputy President of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). Dlamini-Zuma was … 1992 to 1998. At the Convention for a…

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1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… at the University of the Witwatersrand. He served with the South African forces in World War II for four years and went on to attend Exeter College in ……

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1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… Malamed.  In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to … Barenblatt was married to Morris…

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1979

Lewis Baker

… Baker. He was a civil rights lawyer, and a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). The couple continued … activities after they were married…

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1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… as BJ Vorster or John Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after having served as … with neighbouring countries, he took South…

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1885-1970

Kerr Alexander

… prevented Kerr from serving in the army during the First World War. Instead, in August 1915, he successfully applied for the post of first principal of the…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… left school and became an iron moulding apprentice at the South African Railways and Harbours up to 1928.  In his late teenage years he developed an interest…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… depression when he could not find employment. He lived in South Africa for many years, working in the mining industry and served in the South African Air…

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1963

Robert John McBride

… colonial city of Durban. Wentworth was a converted World War 2 military transit camp that was reserved for Coloured … first was A. J. Venter’s Coloured: A…

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1929-2014

Peter Clarke

… expected of him and was happiest going off into his own world where he could be true to himself and draw the pictures … I was 15 years old.  A laatjie.  This…

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1858-1929

Mary Elizabeth Davis

… to social welfare work and to the interests of women in South Africa, particularly in Natal. In Pietermaritzburg, she … held in Natal. Immediately after the…

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1924-2010

Harry Heinz Schwarz

… younger brother Kurt and his mother Alma left Germany for South Africa travelling on the SS Giulio Cesaro, which left … Europe, Schwarz flew in Baltimore…

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1888-1942

Ruth Alexander

… he was twenty-three. They corresponded after his return to South Africa, and eventually in June 1907 they married in New … affectionate in tone, although at…

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1891-1922

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

… Artillery and left England. At the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918), he was in India with the 29th Division which … Star. After travelling to…

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Dieter 'Felix' Gerhardt

… November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded … 1958. Coggin says she became aware of her…

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the   South African Communist Party (SACP) . Her father was an … father came to South Africa from Latvia…

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1926-1995

Joe Slovo

… Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father … degree. He volunteered for the South…

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1892

Herbert Henry Curson

… Surgeons with a thesis on lesser known poisonous South African plants. April 1926 marked his appointment as … Agriculture in the Department of Native Affairs…

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1934-2019

Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn

… (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home and settled with his parents … school in 1954. He then immigrated with his…

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1911-1991

Taubie Kushlick

… personalities of the stature of Taubie Kushlick. In South Africa they are most likely to exert dominance in big … She was as restless as a prowling tigress…

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1923-2016

Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden

… KwaZulu-Natal. Following the outbreak of the Second World War , she joined the South African army as a truck driver, driving all over the … [online],…

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Ray E. Phillips

… Ray E. Phillips was born in 1889 and active in South Africa for four decades following World War I . He participated in the Joint Council movement and was ……

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