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1920-1991

Jonas Dinous Matlou

… Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member … National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when it was…

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1955

Michael Davis

… Michael Davis was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On completing his schooling in Johannesburg, Davis served his compulsory one-year…

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1954

Vincent Oliphant

… Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port … Methodist Primary School, and his secondary education in…

B-0008852

1958

Paul Konings

… Paul Konings was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the …

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India.  He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq … was an adventurer and left his family to seek his fortune in…

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1908-1993

Dulcie Howes

… through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set out to do:  to present to her … it all." (From Marina Grut's book T he…

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1919-2000

Mary Dorothy Benson

… – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she … Hospital), and Lucy Stubbs, a descendant of…

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1827-1903

Janet Burnside Soga

… Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of … Scots census indicates that the family was then…

B-0009091

1930-2018

Anne-Marie Wolpe

… Ann-Marie Wolpe was born on 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She … her future husband, the late Harold Wolpe . They…

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1950

Peter Hain

… Peter Gerald Hain was born on 16 February in 1950 in Nairobi Kenya but he grew up in Pretoria after his south african born parents returned …

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1810-1841

Rev. George Champion

… Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion … joined the American…

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1955

Gana Makabeni

… Gana Makabeni  was born in the Transkei.  He attended a Communist night school and … Communist Party of South Africa  (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s…

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1889

Bertha Mkhize

… Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver died … as a tailoress and then started a tailoring business in Durban…

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1944

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he … and later obtained his PHD from Lancaster University. In 1977,…

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1931-2011

Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

…  Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. … did not receive any formal coaching; he…

B-0070067

1934

Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu

… and Amos Xundu.  He attended the local primary school and in Standard Six he went to live with a white missionary … Engcobo.  Xundu matriculated at St John’s…

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1946-2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala

… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province…

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1922

Thomas Titus Nkobi

… Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in  Johannesburg . Member of the national executive committee …  (ANC) from 1958…

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1908-2000

Jock Leyden

… He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life.  … of Art, Durban, and he decided to advance…

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1836-1914

Joseph Chamberlain

… almost socialist liberal to an arch imperialist serving in a Tory cabinet. A successful businessman, he became the … ahead of their time. He was appointed…

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Joel Joffe

… Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Abraham … Joffe studied law at the University of the…

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1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo was born on 22 August 1924 in Omangundu near Ondangwa in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. He attended the Ongwediva…

B-0095996

1858-1936

Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana

… Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His … passing the final examination with…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles,…

B-0008562

1955

Shirley Gunn

… Gunn enrolled for a degree in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her … While studying for her Honors degree, she became involved…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern … (now known as Limpopo), at a place named…

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1918

Mangisi Pheneas Nene

… African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the  Treason Trial . … African…

B-0068235

1916

Philemon Mathole

… Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…

B-0008485

1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… Mahomed Motala was born in Dundee on 14 June 1921. In 1938 Motala matriculated at Sastri College and studied medicine in Bombay, India, from 1939. It was at…

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