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1964-2004

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

… singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age, and already at the age of five, she had tourists paying to … Brenda, saying that her voice was…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… she went on to produce a body of work that is timeless and still relevant today. Largely neglected during her … Durban, such as the Children’s Hospital at…

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1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… the Beyei. Mpho attended Moremi Primary School in Maun, and after completion went to further his education in South … on the Defiance Campaign  in 1952, Mpho…

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1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… [iv]  From 1960 she attended Durban High School [v] and in September 1963 she commenced tertiary education at the … in her class. [viii] In 1974 she…

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1947

Aaron Mosibudi Mangena

… the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The youngest of seven children of … own land.Mangena completed his…

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1967

Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu

… Eastern Cape, South Africa. He attended the local primary and high school before dropping out at grade nine to follow … boxing. During his amateur career…

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T. J. Lemon

… Photo Agency in Johannesburg, publishing in Ada, Learn and Teach, Work in Progress, Die Suid-Afrikaan, Monitor and Development Bank . From 1991 to 1993, he…

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… Stein was born on 25 December in 1920 in Cape Town, and was brought up in Durban. He studied engineering at … apartheid. In the late 1950s, Stein left South…

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1810-1872

Charles Du Val

… in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and long-time associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape Town at … W. Deecker…

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Dan Tloome

… Tloome became involved in trade union work in the 1930s and joined the Communist Party. In 1941 he was chosen … of the Orlando branch of the ANC in…

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1956

Zacharia Solly Shoke

… Management from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Certificate in Personnel Management from IPM. Shoke … government. He obtained his military training…

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1949

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi

… 1976 Nkosi studied painting, graphics, sculpture, weaving and ceramics at Rorke's Drift. From 1977 to 1980 he worked … he taught art at the Open School,…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… 1959.  Gwangwa then went on to become a composer of note and became the first black South African to release an album. … film was nominated for several…

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1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the petrol company, in … Congress  campaigns from the 1952…

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1964

Menzi Mcunu

… Gallery.  In 1991 he painted a mural at Hebox, Hammarsdale and another for Gadaleni High School, Isandhwana, and in 1992 a mural for Ilanga. In 1990 he went…

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1948-2002

Bonginhlanhla Plummer Mbokazi

… he attended classes in art run by the Technikon Natal; and in 1994 he attended printing making workshops run by the Durban artists, Greg Hayes, John Roome…

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1874-1965

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

… Morning Post during the South African War of 1889-1902, and was taken prisoner in Natal when the train that he was … under the command of General Louis Botha…

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1885

Nehemiah Tile

… South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal education at Boloto. He became a lay preacher and in 1880 was ordained…

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1936-2008

Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla

… one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both parents were originally from the … where he matriculated in 1956. Nhlanhla…

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1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… took part in student demonstrations against the Greyshirts and the bulldozing of Sophiatown . After her undergraduate … activism, the Training College…

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1920-2001

Dorothy Shanley

… was born in 1920. She had three children aged 11, 9 and 7. They were cared for by friends and neighbours during the arrest and trial of Dorothy and her…

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1956

Anthony James (Tony) Leon

… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was born to Sheila Schulz and Ramon Leon. His father was an Advocate and later a judge. He enrolled for his primary education…

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1947-2008

Mike Terry

… , which was born in 1960 after the Sharpeville Massacre  and succeeded the Boycott Movement of 1959. The AAM was … , President of the  African National…

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1947

Ben Skosana

… as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier … diploma in Social Development. He also studied…

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1947

Ben M. Skosana

… as a teacher from the Wilberforce Training College, and later pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier … diploma in Social Development. He also studied…

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… became invovled in politics at the young age of 13 and by the time he was 15 years old, he was a spokesperson of … took up medicine he had already served a…

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… one of the first students to attend the Inanda Seminary and thereafter went to Ohlange Institute. Bertha was a … she was about thirty years old, trained as a…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977, at the age of 33, Cobbing came to…

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Mabel Balfour

… Mabel Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. Balfour was first involved with the unions representing food and canning…

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