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Tu Nokwe

… born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano … his daughters to perform with him. All…

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1937

Bokwe James Mafuna

… Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual … a union organizer among metalworkers,but abandoned…

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1916-1993

Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda

… Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son … Charles Mda, a headman, peasant farmer…

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1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).  His father was born in Cato Manor and his mother was…

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… Nokuthula Orela Simelane was born in 1960 in Mzinoni Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga . She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula … M. (2011)  …

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1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities. He left the country in 1964 and…

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned … Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped to…

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… Anton Edward Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central Karoo. He enrolled at the University of … shop. During the depression…

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1952

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

… Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge was born in KwaZulu-Natal on  29 June 1952. She attended Magog and … matriculated at the Inanda Seminary, a girls’ high…

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1950-1990

Muntu Myeza

… Myeza was born on 3 December 1950 to Jacob and Julia Myeza in Natal where he also did his early education. Myeza … to Natal where he completed his matric at…

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1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… Magnus Malan was born in Pretoria on 30 January 1930. His father, Avril Ire de … a young age, he had aspirations to join the military and in 1973 he was…

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1925-2020

Harold Strachan

… Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of … and at the Staatliche Akademie der…

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1960

Dumisani Andrew Phillip Phungula

… He was born in 1960 at KwaMashu, Durban. He passed his matric in 1978 at Isibonelo High School in KwaMashu. He is a graphic artist who studied at Fort Hare …

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1920-2003

Rev. Theo Kotze

… The Reverend Theo Kotze was born at the Heads in Knysna, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 19 May 1920. … paymaster at Simmer and Jack, one of the Rand…

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1855-1920

Olive Schreiner

… a pacifist. She did not agree with British imperialism in South Africa or with the South African (Anglo-Boer) War …  that was fought to achieve it. She…

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1825-1904

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

… on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of … within the strict tenets of Dutch Calvinism…

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1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… 1886 Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony. In 1903, at the impressionable age of 17 she…

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1962-2007

Humphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza

… Humphrey Phakade ‘Pax’ Magwaza was born on 4 April 1962, in Lamontville, one of the oldest Durban townships, Natal … Magwaza’s six children. After completing…

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1947-2012

Heidi Holland

… Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa, the daughter of a British … a British colony, where she attended Ellis Robins School…

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1892-1975

Haile Selassie I

… 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth … educated by private…

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1932

Mimi Coertse

… South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company. It signifies a…

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1980

Lindiwe Mazibuko

… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal … was a banker and her mother a nurse. Mazibuko grew up…

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1885-1959

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu

… Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu , a …

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1918-1973

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus

… and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father was a businessman and farmer who also owned a butchery in Parys…

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1956-1985

Andries Raditsela

… In 1982, Raditsela became deeply engaged in politics after becoming a member of the Chemical Workers' …  During this period he was working for a Dunlop…

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1853-1902

Cecil John Rhodes

… The Early Years Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in the small hamlet of Bishops Stortford, England. He was the … and his father, that the business…

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1905-1982

John Collins

… John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four … Hannah Priscilla Edwards. He went to…

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1925-2013

Alan Robert Lipman

… Alan Robert Lipman was born on 6 June, 1925 in Johannesburg into a wealthy Jewish family. After he served in the South African Air Force during World War II,…

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1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). … High School, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng)…

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1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… Enos Molapo Makhubedu was born at Eersterus, near Pretoria in 1938. He grew up in Pilgrim’s Rest where he completed his higher primary school studies in 1951…

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