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1913-2009

Nöel Robb

… N ö el Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin … Constance Barrow. Her father commanded a…

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started working at his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady…

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c 1880s

Mweli Skota

… Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various … ANC newspaper,  Abantu-Batho,  and served as its editor in…

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Douglas G. Wolton

… of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape Town in 1925…

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1927-2013

Francois Roux

… Francois Roux was born in 1927 at Fort Victoria, Masvingo, Southern Rhodesia (now … the Boys High School, Stellenbosch from 1940 to 1946. In 1946, he studied…

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1917-1998

Winnie Motlalepule Kgware

… Winnie  Motlalepule Kgware was born in Thaba Nchu in the Free State on the 27th of October in 1917.  A teacher by profession, and resident at the … G , (…

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1935-2019

Dorothy Masuka

… Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia , and her … of inspiration for her…

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1932-1988

Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini

… Johnstone “Johnny” Mfanafuthi Makhathini was born in Durban on 8 February 1932. He attended school at Adams College in Durban where he trained as a teacher…

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1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… Virgile Joseph Bonhomme was born in Durban on 15 March 1944 and his parents were Patricia and … of the Furniture and Allied Workers Trade Union in 1973…

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1950

Biddy Partridge

… Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a …

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1958

Jack Mkhuseli

… Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958.  Jack was the second youngest … Four.  As he had no permit to continue his…

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1958

Mkhuseli Khusta Jack

… Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958.  Jack was the second youngest … Four.  As he had no permit to continue his…

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1894-1961

James la Guma

… James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). … and later adopted by an uncle, James…

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1960

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

… Geraldine Fraser was born in 1960 in Lansdowne, Cape Town . She received her primary education in Wynberg and matriculated at Livingstone High School in … of…

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1956

Dr Hersheela Narsee

… Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School from…

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1919

Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco

… the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's second-in-command in the Natal…

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1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal . At a young age she decided she wanted to fight … and so joined the Congress…

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1943-2009

Winston Monwabisi Ngozi

… Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…

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1916-1984

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto

… his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in the Rustenburg district. In 1931 he entered the Stofberg Gedenkskool (Stofberg … School) of the…

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1903-1957

Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo

… Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received … primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange…

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1942-1991

Dumile Feni

… Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only … five or six years old and he went to live…

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1927

Sydney Brenner

… Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, close to Johannesburg, to Jewish parents on 13 … repairman who had moved to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910, while…

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1932

Harold Rubin

… Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting privately … he…

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1966

Zola Budd

… Zola Budd was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 she gained international…

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1897-1979

Edgar Harry Brookes

… Edgar Harry Brookes was born in England on February 4th,1897 and emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the…

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1978

Hestrie Cloete

… Hestrie Cloete (née Storbeck) was born in 1978 in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She grew up in the small town of Coligny , Western Transvaal (now…

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1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

… Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870…

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1851-1931

Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone

… M Mokone was born at Bogaga, Sekhukhuneland (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a…

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1931-2015

Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena

… Dr Oshadi Mangena was born in a toilet on 12 June 1931 when her father’s employer … was a trained nurse before she became involved full time in the…

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