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1950

Siphiwe Nyanda

… municipality. Nyanda attended Thulasizwe Primary School in Soweto and Orlando West High School where he completed his … certificate. He matriculated from…

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National … Congress  (ANC) from December 1952 until…

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1926-2021

Maniben Sita

… Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, ( Marabastad ,  Pretoria ) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly politically-active ……

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1915-2004

David Wilcox Bopape

… farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the northern Transvaal. In 1916 his father fought against…

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second … of Rev. James Allison, whose followers founded Edendale…

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1917-1993

Oliver Tambo

… (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape, on ……

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1941-1985

Judson Diza Kuzwayo

… Diza Kuzwayo was born August 25,1941 at Adams Mission in rural Natal and completed his junior certificate at the … joined the African National Congress (ANC)…

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1954

Wendy Schwegmann

… Wendy Schwegmann was born in 1954 in Zululand, where she spent her youth. She has a diploma in Interior Design from Natal Technical college and is a …

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1906-1967

George John Golding

… George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a … school principal, editor, involved in politics …

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1866-1935

Henry Burton

… Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… Born in 30 November  1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian Congress …

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1880-1919

Cecilia Makiwane

… Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape . Her father was a teacher and a minister ……

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1938

Dorothy Hazel Alexander

… Dorothy Alexander was born on 7 August 1938 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape , the third of six children [1] . One of … were not usually permitted to…

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1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…

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1970

Heidi Saayman

… Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving … studied at Port…

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1930

Plaatjies Joseph Paul

… Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal … After few years he became a leather-worker by…

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1928-2013

Phyllis Naidoo

… Phyllis Naidoo was born in Estcourt, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal ) on the 5 January … agnostic.’ As a result there were many interesting debates in the house…

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Nimrod Boyce Tantsi

… Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in  Johannesburg  in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times…

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1952-2006

Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta

… Thozamile Richard  (Thozi) Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway … worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High School…

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1899-1980

Reverend Walker Stanley Gawe

… Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where both his parents were teachers. He attended St. Matthew's…

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1939-2019

Hugh Lewin

… Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South … at the Natal Witness , Drum and Golden City Post . In July 1964 he was…

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1927-1994

Mizream Maseko

… his career as a house painter after completing his studies in Transvaal. He was inspired by the artworks in the houses he painted and took up painting…

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1869-1945

Thomas Mtobi Mapikela

… Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born  in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful…

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1915-1995

Yusuf Cachalia

… Yusuf Cachalia was born in Johannesburg on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was…

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1860-1926

Emily Hobhouse

… In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South … a humanitarian and pacifist who came to visit South Africa in December 1900, during the  Anglo…

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1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of the white…

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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 … were violently opposed to South African participation in the…

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1949

Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

… Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban . She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the Northern Transvaal but…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… Tiyani Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in Soweto.During his high…

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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont , Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the…

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