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1925-2000

Alfred Baphetuxolo Nzo

Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…

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Percival Mdala

Percival Mdala grew up near King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape. He came to the Garden Route in 1956, where he found work as a gardener for Bishop Stainton,…

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1934

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu

Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born on 8th  of May in 1934 in Natal. He began his career as a teacher in 1952. His years of teaching culminated in the…

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1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

Politician and British Colonial Officer, Bathurst was born in Gloucestershire, England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst. In…

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1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…

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1911-1991

Dorothy Joan Wright

Dorothy Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth…

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

A chairman of the Orlando African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and elected to the ANC national executive committee in December…

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1918-1979

Suliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie

Born in 1918, he was a businessman in Evaton and played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for participation…

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2012

Andries Ntsenyeho

Andries Ntsenyeho (42) was from Sasolburg in the Free State. He had worked for Lonmin for a year and was one of the leaders of the strike. On 16 August 2012…

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2012

Motisaoitsile Van Wyk Sagalala

Motisaoitsile Van Wyk Sagalala (60) was from Bophirima Setlagole in the Retlong Municipal District of the North West. On 16 August 2012 Mr Sagalala was killed…

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2012

Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa

Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene 2…

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2012

Janeveke Raphael Liau

Janeveke Raphael Liau (47) was from Likolobeng Ha Monyane, Maseru in Lesotho. He started working for Lonmin in 2003. On 16 August 2012 Janeveke was killed at…

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2012

Thobisile Zibambele

Thobisile Zibambele (39) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2009. On 16 August 2012 Thobisile was killed at scene 1…

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1915

Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia

Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…

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1903-1960

Ida Fiyo Mntwana

Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei. After the death of his first…

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1885-1961

Anna Victoria Mangena

She was a daughter of John Cobela Ntuli and his wife, and was born at Mapumulo Mission Station (between Stanger and Kranskop), Natal, probably between 1885 and…

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1869-1948

Franklin Kaye Kendall

Kendall was an architect whose interests led him to join SASA as both artist and administrator. Born in Melbourne, Australia, 1870. He was educated at King\'s…

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James Ford

James Ford was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever…

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of John Tengo Jabavu. After studying at Lovedale, he taught briefly,…

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1956

Christopher Nceba Faku

Christopher Nceba Faku was born on 11 February 1956 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. Faku received his education at the Cowan High School and Lovedale College…

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1846-1921

James Smith Morland

Born Liverpool, England 1846, died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 - 1804…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from England…

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1878-1964

Charles Sidney Groves

Charles Sidney Groves Arca was born in Leicester, England, 1878. Stained glass was integral to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art…

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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (Bra Ike) was born in Ga-Makgato (Blouberg Municipality) on 26 February 1931.  He completed his Standard 6 (Grade Eight) at Uitkyk…

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

Cecil Williams was born in Cornwall, England in 1906. Williams whose father was a blacksmith left Cornwall for Johannesburg in 1928. After his arrival, he…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

Victor Poto was born in 1897 at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was installed as…

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1955-1985

Malesella Benjamin Moloise

Malesella Benjamin Moloise was born in 1955 in Alexandra. he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at…

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1890-1978

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe was born 5 September 1890 in Kimberley. He obtained his Senior Teacher's Diploma and drawing Teacher's Diploma by studying…

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