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1952

Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul

… Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb   an. In 1961 his family was…

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1903-1979

Josie Palmer

… Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province ), to … for the Potchefstroom resident magistrate. She…

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1926-1977

Viola Hashe

… Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province ). Hashe … Labour Pains: Women’s leadership and gender…

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1939

Jonty Driver

… Jonty (C.J) Driver was born in Cape Townin 1939 and grew up with his mother and younger brother in Kroonstad.  His father spent time fighting in North Africa…

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1932

Amy Thornton

… Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it…

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… Chris Dlamini was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting…

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1950

Mandla Langa

… Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, or KwaDukuza , a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province . He is the son of a preacher, and he grew…

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1933

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

… 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a teacher in Nebo District in…

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Diana (Di) Bishop

… Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town . She made her first political statement at age eleven in 1961 when South Africa became a republic. During the … her other…

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1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… National organiser of the  African National Congress  (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923…

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1923-1987

Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa

… anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born near Mapumulo in Natal in 1923. He attended secondary school in Richmond and in 1945 began part-time study toward…

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1927-2013

Frederik Bester Laubscher

… Bester Howard (Erik) Laubscher was born on 3 February 1927 in Tulbagh, in the Cape. His father was a Glasgow trained physician with strong interests in…

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1909-1997

Frances Baard

… Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape . She was the fifth of seven … a result of her experiences of oppression…

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1925-1983

Cassim Mohammed Bassa

… agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed … Bassa's father came to South Africa with his…

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac … unit working for…

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1938-2002

Stephen Vukile Tshwete

… Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East…

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1907-1978

Hester Elizabeth Cornelius

… Hester Elizabeth Cornelius was born on 5 April 1907 in Lichtenburg Western Transvaal to an Afrikaner family. Her … with both her father and grandfather…

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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… Bessie Amelia Head was born at Fort Napier Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), South … at Santa Monica’s Home, an Anglican Mission…

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1957

Sakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma

… from the following source: Gastrow, S. (1992)  Who`s Who in South African politics  Number 4.p.67. If you would like … contribute tab. Sakumzi (Saki) Justice…

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…

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1983

Portia Modise

… Portia "Bashin" Modise was born on 20 June 1983 in White City Soweto , Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). … soccer at the age of seven. She grew up playing…

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1911-1980

Lillian Masediba Ngoyi

… Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria , Transvaal (now Gauteng), in 1911. She enrolled in a nursing training course, but eventually took up work as … M…

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1923-2013

Denis Mayer

… Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, … of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the 1890s to seek…

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1921-1968

Todd Tozama Matshikiza

… was a noted soprano, and his father played the organ in the Anglican Church. Matshikiza was the youngest of seven … Todd's earliest experience as a…

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

… Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding … Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in…

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… Sylvester Stein was born on 25 December in 1920 in Cape Town, and was brought up in Durban. He studied engineering at Howard College in Natal …

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1940

Yusuf Joe Jacobs

… Yusuf (Joe) Jacobs was born in District Six, Cape Town on 17 September 1940.  His father … South Africa from Indonesia around the 1870s, who worked in the…

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1955

Adam Glasser

… Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, … small time gigs and cruise chips. Adam returned…

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1914-1947

Anton Muziwakhe Lembede

… Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. His father, … him at home until he completed his…

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1940

Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers

… Dawie de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de … to Bellville. He matriculated from Bellville High…

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