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… Kasturba Kapadia was born on April 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas … of Karamchand Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s father. In 1876, Gokuldas Kapadia and Karamchand Gandhi reached a … G., (2005). The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914, New Delhi: …

… Born Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, Judith Mason is one of the most well known South … She matriculated from the Pretoria High School for Girls in 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a BA Degree in Fine Art. She …

… Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in …

… Dr Arthur David (Kin) Bensusan was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's … Air Force at the outbreak of World War II and served in North Africa and Italy as an aerial photographer, having …

… Stephanie Faure was born on 9 September 1894 in Pretoria. She was the daughter of Jacobus C. Faure who was … and the Pretoria High School for Girls.  Faure had a post in a firm of attorneys and was at the same time trained in English elocution by the famous theatrical figure Muriel …

… Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the pages of the fortnightly newspaper that he produced … the South African Spectator. He was also instrumental in shaping Coloured politics in the Cape at that time. He was …

… Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta Obe ‘Buchi Emecheta’ was born in the  Nigerian  city of Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice (nee … was given the opportunity to study rather than sell fruit in the market. In 1954 she won a scholarship to the well …

… Frederick Nkomo was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng and Klerksdorp. His secondary education took …

… Andrew Murray was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew … Utrecht the Netherlands for further theological studies. In 1848 at the age of nineteen he experienced a conversion to Christianity. He returned to the Cape in 1848 after having been ordained as a Minister as The …

… homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. Kekana’s father was a carpenter and lay … instructed Kekana at the carving workshop until 1938. In 1939, the carving centre was closed unexpectedly. Kekana … , where he struggled to sell his work. After five years in the city, he accepted an invitation from Sister Pauline to …

… 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the … the external armed wings of the ANC and PAC to topple the apartheid regime. Letter from Bishop Desmond Tutu to Prime … police reactions sparked widespread insurrections. Petty apartheid signs in Cape Town, 1989.© Guy Tillim / South …

… of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on 5 January 1938 during the height of … a Bachelor of Arts degree from Makerere University in 1963, the same year that Kenya became independent from … another Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Leeds in Britain. wa Thiong’o wrote the play, The Black Hermit …

… Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder … Review . His mother was a social worker serving the poor in London. Bunting was a talented intellectual who studied at … Oxford where he won awards such as the Chancellor’s Prize in 1897.In 1900 Bunting volunteered to serve in the British …

… Msane was born in Natal, but very little is known about his early life. He was educated at the Edendale Mission in Pietermaritzburg, and at the Healdtown Institution in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of …

… Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf … he worked as a jewellery salesman, and had to rent rooms in his boss’ house. This is because it was difficult for …

… scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United States of America … from her mother, who had been a teacher of young ladies in Germany and was an accomplished linguist” (Hirson, 1992: 49). Ruth Schechter first met Morris Alexander in Cambridge where he was a student, when she was twelve and …

… Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the … of an African Methodist  Episcopal minister,Make grew up in Mohlakeng township of Randfontein.His family subsequently … the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under Apartheid by Professor S. Badat |Gail M. Gerhart, Teresa …

… formal education, spending his days helping his father in the management of the farm Nuwejaarsfontein, near the … sixteen children. Upon the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877, he moved to the Vredefort district in the Orange Free State, then to Weltevreden near the …

… Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his … Other academic qualifications include a Diploma in Human Resources Management from Damelin, a Certificate in Defence Management from the University of the …

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

… Kate Dinkwetsi Molale was born in 1928 and died in 1980 after a car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the …

… Zwelakhe Sisulu was born in Soweto on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons … to live with family while his father was an accused in the Rivonia trial in 1963. He returned to South Africa in 1968 and a year later …

… is a professional photojournalist who has been involved in the local newspaper and magazine industry since 1995. His … agency "South Photographs". He matriculated in 1988 and obtained a National Diploma in Photography from the Technikon of Pretoria. He did his …

… 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 Elizabeth Technikon for a national diploma in photography. During her studies Heidi took part in two …

… 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 moved to Cape Town , where her husband was …

… 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 …

… 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 day in a furniture factory owned by the father of Ruth First ,and …

… 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 hold permanent positions in government employment.) Alexander was brought up in a … “Representation and reality: Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976”. HSRC Press: Cape Town. …

… John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for … jazz pianist, composer and journalist who shot to fame in 1958 with his musical King Kong, which had an all-black … 7-14 October 2006. ukzn.ac.za | John Matshikiza dies in Jo'burg . Mail and Guardian Online, 16 September 2008. …