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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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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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1944

Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi

… Hlaku Rachidi was born on 11 April 1944 at Ga-Nchabeleng in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He was … other siblings. His parents were both…

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1850-1916

Lord Kitchener

… troops at the beginning of World War I Commissioned in the Royal Engineers, in 1886 Kitchener was appointed governor of the British Red Sea territories and…

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1926-2017

Helen Kies

… Helen Kies (née Abrahams) was born around 1926 in Athlone, Cape Town , Western Cape . Despite a very poor … of Cape Town where studied where she completed…

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1914-2011

Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin)

… Jean Alkin was born on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. … when she was 16 years at Cape Town High School in 1934…

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1904-1996

Nokukhanya Luthuli

… as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her … great admiration for her and…

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1882-1960

Mary Fitzgerald

… Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to…

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1913-2011

Ilse Naude

…  Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near Caledon . After completing secondary … Illse proceeded to study for her…

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Nombuso Mchunu

… On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for … permanent work. Her exposure to union documents resulted in her…

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June Rose Nala

… June Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

… Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei . After the death of his first wife, ……

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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… an activist and educationist. He was highly influential in the re-emergence of the Black labour movement and one of the first in the White-left to appreciate…

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1942

Feziwe Bookholane

… Feziwe Bookholane was born in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Cape in October 1942. She was the first born of seven children. … convent where she served as a nun…

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… Josiah Khiphusizi Jele was born on 1 May 1930, in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He was a son to Joseph Jele and … that drove Jele to join the fight against…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He … at Khethomthandayo and received formal…

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1941-1971

Ahmed Timol

… Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed … and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the…

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1938-2014

Patrick Vuyo Matshikiza

… Article first published in The Sunday Independent  January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam … night at his Queenstown, Eastern Cape home, will go down in the annals…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to … a union organiser for sugar workers, and for some time in the 1950s was Durban…

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1921-2001

Athol Edwin Thorne

… Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family … 19 years and he became a member of a liberal study group in 1940. The group…

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1876-1932

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

… Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents … Plaatje received his only formal…

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1958

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe

… Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal , South Africa. She has been writing and … Swahili and Japanese. Her work is…

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1874-1932

Daniel Simon Letanka

… Daniel Simon Letanka was born at Saulspoort in the Rustenburg district of the Transvaal in 1874 and attended the Native College in Grahamstown in the Cape…

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1814-1893

George Christopher Cato

… George Christopher Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled in London. His family, silk…

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1921-2010

Gordon Mulholland

… Gordon Mulholland was born in Cape Town on 30 April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney … home. She worked as an usherette at the Alhambra Theatre in Cape Town…

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1920-2009

Amina Desai

… Desai, a  Transvaal Indian Congress  activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. … Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the…

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1918-1984

Bernard Gcwensa

… Bernard Gcwensa was born in 1918 in Pomeroy, Natal. Gcwensa received three years of primary … school education ”” from 1932 to 1935 ”” at Collies School in…

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