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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

… assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in 1935 and was capped in March last year. He held the BA degree of the University of South Africa and was a…

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1804-1856

Chief Sekonyela

… next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His father … conquered. In 1821 his father…

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1930

Matthew Nkoana

… a job selling newspapers. In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the  Bantu World,  working his way up to … antipass campaign, he emerged as a…

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1928-2010

Jean Clarice Middleton

… was born in Durban . She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the … , South Africa, in July 1964, she…

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George Montsioa

… Born at Mafeking in 1885, grandson of the great and distinguished Natural Ruler of the Barolong Tribe. He received his early education at his home and later…

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1954

Bheki Myeni

… Natal. Myeni's parents died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni … in Natal. Myeni started carving…

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1960

Dumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula

… He is a graphic artist who studied at Fort Hare University and obtained a BA(FA) (1982) from that university. In 1989 he … an Advanced Diploma in Adult…

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1958

Victor Shange

… Victor showed keen interest in art at the tender age of 6 and his talent developed as he grew until he could paint. … time artist. His work depicts…

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1870-1955

Allerley Glossop

… in London, where she had taught. She farmed at Klapmuts, and was described by some journalists as "an English lady who has long resided in the colony and has…

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1866-1954

Elizabeth Drake

… Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were much admired and reflected her travels England and…

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1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… of the National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS) and President of its the social welfare arm,  NUSWEL. She was the daughter of Jack Curtis and the…

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1929-1994

Ruth Gosschalk

… was a member of the philanthropic  Union of Jewish Women , and her father worked as a market agent. In 1946 Gosschalk … - later renamed the South African…

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1950

Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi

… sessions, the 54th session of the Human Rights Commission and the Oslo Diplomatic Conference on a Convention Banning … to 1998, Selebi served as the South…

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Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… ‘to standard five [grade seven] level’ at a local school and then attended Tiger Kloof Native Institution, a London … 1904 for a couple of years. Conflict…

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1928-2016

Clarence Mlami Makwetu

… Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. His parents were peasant farmers who were … in the Stutterheim district where he…

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Billy Paddock

… he excelled at athletics—he won Natal provincial colours and later participated and completed the famous long-distance Comrades Marathon. His … in South…

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1907-1987

Richard Gert Sibande

… He was an  African National Congress  (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string accused in the  Treason Trial  of … as an organiser, founding a farm…

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1857-1919

William Philip Schreiner

… Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' … born in 30 October 1857. He was the tenth…

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1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… (now Gauteng). More than 20 000 women from different races and diverse backgrounds, brought together by their resentment … voices were heard. Gazo led the…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… of the nearly all-white African Resistance Movement (ARM) and the first and only white man to be hanged for a politically inspired … in the police swoops…

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1914-1947

Anton Muziwakhe Lembede

… Anglican. His father, Mbazwana Martin was a farm labourer and his mother Martha Norah MaLuthuli Lembede, a teacher, who … performance in class, his teacher…

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1619-1677

Jan van Riebeeck

… (today known as Jakarta) in the East Indies in April 1639 and then further on to Dejima (today forming part of … station, a view that was commonly shared…

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1918-1973

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus

… Erasmus was born to Barend Jacobus Gerrit Wessel Erasmus and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father was a…

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1920-2017

Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)

… 1920 in Rustenburg . She started her schooling in Welgeval and completed it at Mmabeskraal under the tutelage of … school education at Orlando High in Soweto…

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Cecil Sols

… early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities of apartheid and to empower young black South Africans through media training. In 1983 he joined Afrapix and…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… inspired performances in Fugard's People Are Living There and Boesman and Lena , in which she made her European debut in London. Fugard wrote many roles…

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1957

Cedric Nunn

… the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued his schooling until standard eight (Grade 10). … Afrapix  in the 1980s. In 1982 he…

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1952

Andries Johannes Botha

… BA (FA). He has served on a number of important committees and in 1983 was instrumental in establishing the Community … He has participated in a number of…

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