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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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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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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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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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1937

Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala

… Macala tended cattle on a farm in the Orange Free State and passed the time drawing on the rocks with stones. He is … for a few months under Cecil Skotnes at…

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1909-1984

Joan Hoskyn Davies

… In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives Depot and in 1944 she transferred to the Transvaal Archives Depot. … 1957 she was appointed head of the new…

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1904

Simon Tyeku

… Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in 1904 and worked in…

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1944

Wiseman Mbambo

… born at Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a sculptor of figures and he works in wood. He attended school at the Umgeni Mission Station and trained as a teacher at…

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1870-1938

Leo Rbc Francois

… to nothing. His death in 1938 marked the end of one era and the start of a new with the founding of the New Group. Francois was educated at Leipzig…

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, composer and arranger, he was born to a musician father who did not … Senior, would come to appreciate his son…

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1916-1988

Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld

… Pieter Beyleveld was born in 1916 in the Orange Free State and educated at farm schools. He joined the army at the … Legion (an organisation of World War II…

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1914-2011

Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin)

… Book Club organised monthly meetings amongst intellectuals and trade union leaders in Cape Town many if not all were … formally joined the CPSA. She then…

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1909-1969

Dr. Philip Blaaiberg

… War Blaaiberg joined the South African Army Medical Corps and as a captain, led a dental unit in Abyssinia and Italy. In 1954 Blaaiberg had his first heart…

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1878-1942

Paul De Groot

… His directors were two famous men, Eduard Verkade and Louis Bouwmeester. De Groot travelled with repertory … of Cor Ruys in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and…

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