SAHO global search

1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… she was appointed as the National Spokesperson of the ANC before being deployed as Chief Operations Officer in the …

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1913-1999

de Villiers Graaff

… as an advocate in 1937 in the South African Supreme Court. His career was interrupted by the outbreak of the …

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1945

Premanathan “Prema” Naidoo

… , and subjected to beatings and torture. He was brought to court after several months and sentenced on 1 April 1982 to …

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1790-1868

King Mzilikazi

… fell on each other. Three Zulu regiments were wiped out before they fell back. Early in 1832, the Matabele razed the … they split into two groups. It was…

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South Africa after her … The family went to Zambia where Clegg…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… for Botswana in August 1976, living there for few months before he proceeded to the West Coast of Africa. Heads of … Mashinini a place to stay in her home in…

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1841-1926

John Xavier Merriman

… and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa in … became Prime Minister in February, serving for…

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1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… idea of setting up a national organisation had been placed before the deputation to London in 1909 by Pixley Ka Isaka … Rubusana and others arrived back in…

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1941-2013

Wendy Heather Woods

… was brought in. Upon seeing her, his face briefly lit up before returning to its previous stony stance as his jailers … of the Mandela Statue Fund, initiated…

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1955-2021

Cecyl Esau

… supremacy, because he and a friend were arrested two days before polling day in Esau's hometown of Worcester on a … Ashley Kriel Memorial Lecture at UWC…

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1956-2017

Barend de Wet

… gestures imbued with visual puns and Duchampian mischief.  Before his return to commercial art galleries with three solo …

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1882-1955

Mary Eveline Fincken

… started failing Fincken retired from the college in 1935. Before returning to England she gave a farewell concert in …

B-0008067

1915-1972

William Frederick Nkomo

… the Blind near Hammanskraal. In January 1972, a few months before his death on 26 March of the same year, he was elected …

B-0008800

1812-1893

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

… still assert that Viljoen saw the Victoria Falls before Livingstone. He died on 30 April 1893 on his farm Ver …

B-0068728

1975

Mpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom

… plays. Unfortunately for Grootboom, Simon passed on before Grootboom was to re-enter the competition. Grootboom …

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… Skotnes served in the South African Forces in Italy. Before returning to South Africa he studied drawing under …

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Vusi Mahlasela

… in 1992 and comprised of songs he had written years before. The song When you come back became particularly …

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1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… Welfare Officer for the Musina Copper Mine in 1972 before working as an assistant teacher at Mphaphuli High …

B-0070372

1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… on the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) before becoming a Member of Parliament (MP) following the …

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1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… places like Elsies River, Saldanha Bay and Stompeus Bay before eventually settling back in District six. As a result, …

B-0071685

1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… at Adams College in Durban where he trained as a teacher before teaching in Mzinyathi in the Inanda area. When the …

B-0094854

1962

Greg Marinovich

… upheavals. Despite never having covered `hard news' before, the increasingly disturbing reports drew him towards …

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1926-1977

Viola Hashe

… Town Council was forced to back down barely seven hours before the order was to take effect. From 1956 on, she began …

B-0080306

1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… Assembly. On this date she resigned from Parliament a day before she was due to be sworn in again as an MP and less …

B-0067753

1920-1977

Elmon Malele

… neuro-surgeon.A post-mortem was held by state pathologist  before the Malele family could make arrangements to have a …

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… standard 6, she had to work for a year in Vryburg before going to the college. She worked for a white family, …

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1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

… end of trial, but died early in March 1961, three weeks before the acquittal of all the accused. …

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