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1964

Joseph Manana

… Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist … received an award from the Tito Zungu Trust Fund, created in the name of the…

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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

… Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. … out, Leo joined his brother who had…

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1878-1941

Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke

… Simon Peter Matseke was born in Pretoria in 1878, but little is known about his early life except that … Dutch. Following the war he was employed as a…

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1951

Helen Zille

… Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg . She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from … and anti-apartheid activist, Zille was…

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1920-2002

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

… Ismail " Tatamkhulu Afrika"  Joubert   was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a … on 7 December 1920. His parents…

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1933-1986

Samora Machel

… Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana … rather than food such as corn which they could…

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1959

Andrew Michael Boraine

… Andrew Michael Boraine was born in Pietermaritzburg on 18 February 1959.He is the eldest of … 1974, and the Diocesan College (Bishops) from 1975 to 1976.In…

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1972

Leoni Marinovich

… photographer, Leonie's (nee Swanepoel) work is represented in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Johannesburg. Leoni has co- … documentary shoot for the…

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1949-1984

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

… Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis) was born in 1949 in Cape Town . In 1972, Curtis served as the Vice-President of the National … [23 July 2012]| SAPA, (1998),…

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1925

Tamsanqa Tasque Tshume

… Stalwart of the Cape  African National Congress  in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations … Youth League…

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended school in Catholic mission and then he went to study private…

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1867-1957

Maria Wilman

… botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931, once women were allowed degrees from…

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1930-2006

Amos Langdown

… Amos Langdown was born on 7 May 1930, in Plettenberg Bay. He was involved for many years in art education. He trained as a teacher at the Zonnebloem College…

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1911-2002

Errol T. Shanley

… Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents and Anna Else Bernhardt born in … Member…

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1937

Sylvia Neame

… Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, … as well as a twin sister named…

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1955-2017

Peter McKenzie

… Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest … attended Melbourne Road Primary and Parkhill…

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1896-1948

Abdulla Ismail Kajee

… moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) from the mid-1930s to … took over the leadership. He had only…

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Zulumathabo Zulu

… Transcendence, African Origin of Mathematics, A Woman in the Bush, The Triangle Tool of Analysis, African Origin of … Rituals, and African Mathematical…

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1920

Marutle Flag Boshielo

… Boshielo was born to a poor family in 1920 in Phokoane village, in the Sekhukhuneland district in Northern Transvaal, now …

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1910-1990

Gerard Bhengu

… Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, … Roman Catholic Mission School of Esibomvwini at Centecow…

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1936-2010

Lewis Nkosi

… Lewis Nkosi was born in Chesterville, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at … schools before enrolling at M. L. Sultan Technical College in Durban…

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1850s-1911

Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba

… Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba was born in the 1850s at Ngqakayi in the Eastern Cape. His father, Ntibane Mzimba, was educated in Lovedale and became a deacon in…

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1963

David Tsolwane Uhuru Hlongwane

… David Hlongwane was born on 1 January 1963 in the Zwelethemba township of Worcester. He studied at … Hlongwane worked as a labourer at Rainbow Chicken Farms…

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1922-1993

Rahima Moosa

… Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand , Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town . As a teenager, Rahima and her identical…

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1920-2000

Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo

… Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She started her … went on to the Inanda Seminary, a private…

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1913-1999

Yetta Barenblatt

… Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed.  In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later … unionist and a leader of the  African National Congress  in the Cape. He…

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1898-1969

Nana Sita

… from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family which was active in the Indian…

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1872-1940

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman

… Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated … as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in…

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1908-1986

Nathaniel Impey Honono

… Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree from the…

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