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1922-1976

Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo

… Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in…

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Jean Powell

… Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art … College, London and for a one year’s post Diploma in two dimensional and…

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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 … A businessperson, played…

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Dilizantaba Mji

… Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then … at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he graduated in 1952…

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1924-2002

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

… Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, … Worcester where she attained her Senior…

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1949-1985

Sicelo Mhlauli

… Sicelo Mhlauli was born on 25 May 1949 in Cradock. After completing high school, he trained as a … and upon completion taught at Tembalabantu High School in…

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1936

George Sewpersadh

… George Sewpersadh was born in Cato Manor on 7 October 1936. His father was a newspaper … Standards Four to Six. He then proceeded to Sastri College in Durban…

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1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of … .He became the chairperson of the Congress Of…

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1583-1663

Njinga Ana de Sousa

… her conversion to Catholicism and her participation in the slave trade. Angolan nationalist historians would … recent African feminists [1] . Njinga was born…

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1961

Dali Tambo

… When Tambo was a baby, his parents were exiled. He arrived in England on 15 September 1960 with his mother. Tambo attended Lancing College in West Sussex in…

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2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation … A son to a farm worker, Mabizela did his primary education in Port Elizabeth where he also…

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1933-1986

Florence Barbara Ribeiro

… of five children. Her father, Henry Mathe, was a labourer in a Coal Mine at Hlobane. He died when Florence was 12 years … her three sisters were trained…

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1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… Chief of the Bakwena tribe of Mmanape of Tshukudu in Phokeng, Rustenburg. Mokgatle's grandmother, Matlhodi … Province).  Mokgatle started his primary…

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… worked as a cook at Tolstoy Farm and Thambi Naidoo was in charge of marketing and sanitation. As she grew up, her … used to tell her stories of the struggle…

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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… Durant Basi Sihlali was born on 5 March 1935 in an industrial area, Germiston, Transvaal, now known as … parents sent him to live with his paternal…

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… Isaiah Stein was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After … during his teens, he moved to District Six,…

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1873-1917

Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube

… everything that we know today as the John Dube legacy in South Africa. Together, they tirelessly raised funds in the United States of America (USA) between…

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1922-2013

Vesta Smith

… Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown , Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) on 20 … sisters. Her mother was a seamstress…

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1920-2018

Rica Hodgson

… of the struggle from the early 1940s, until her retirement in 1996 as secretary to the late Walter Sisulu . She married Jack Hodgson in 1945. The two shared…

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1950-2012

Roy Padayachie

… was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. … joined the underground African National…

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1934

Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga

… Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘ homeland’ , … year of birth as 1938, a date still recognised as…

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1871-1952

Dr. Hans Merensky

… Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and … passed with honours. He completed his practical training…

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1938-1971

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane

… Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki…

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1812-1893

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

… Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen was born in 14 May 1812, Winterhoek. Having moved from Oudtshoorn to the present Orange Free State in 1843, he settled near…

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1943-1967

Basil Paul Petersen February

… Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around several times, living  in places like Elsies River,…

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1941-2007

Hilary Mutch

… Mutch (née Hilary Claire) was born on 4 November 1941 in Erith, south-east London into a Jewish family. Her father, … a South African worked as a doctor at…

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1991

Mokgadi Caster Semenya

… 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child, … Semenya went to live with her grandmother,…

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Jomo Kenyatta

… his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ”” one of five administrative districts in the Central…

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1905

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

… Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of … his day at Uppsala University where he…

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1948

Alec Erwin

… Alexander Erwin (Alec Erwin) was born on 17 January 1948 in Cape Town to Dennis and Rosamund Erwin. Alec, as he became known, matriculated from Durban High…

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