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1959-2011

Zimasile Ngqawana

… Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of … education…

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent … was entirely English speaking. Bram, who was…

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted…

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1966-1987

Ashley James Kriel

… two sisters, Michel Assure and Melaney Adams. He grew up in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. Bonteheuwel is a township on the Cape Flats and was predominantly working…

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1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total,…

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1931

Raymond Ackerman

… that may have tried him, but certainly never failed him. In doing so he built two groups, the Checkers chain, whose … him with the sack, and Pick 'n Pay,…

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1953

Penny Siopis

… This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is … engaged with the shifting social and political situations…

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1905-1985

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

… 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and moved to Pretoria … and upon…

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1924-1999

Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia

… political activism traversed national liberation struggles in two countries, namely, India and South Africa. In 1936, faced with economic hardship, his…

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1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when she adopted a mute Black boy (6). She wanted to send the boy to the school for the…

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1935-2026

Shanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo

… of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in Pretoria , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) on 6 March 1935. She spent her childhood with her maternal…

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1948

Patrick Holo

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made … with long wires were one of his favourites…

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1922-1963

Solwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle

… Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Notyhume, named him … until Standard Six…

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Potlako Leballo

… He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline … clients. He had his own firm, James Kantor & Partners, in…

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1952

Willis Nxumalo

…   Nxumalo was born in Magud, Natal in 1952. He is a self-taught sculptor who has participated in numerous group exhibitions.  He won an award in 1972 at …

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku was born in Durban in 1955.  A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, … the piano was chopped up to make firewood one winter…

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1923

Diamond Bozas

… responsible for the establishment of the TEACH Museum in Empangeni and he served on the Advisory Board of that museum. He was a primer mover in the building…

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John S. P. Motloheloa

… John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…

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1829-1871

Tiyo Soga

… Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South…

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1972

Zanele Muholi

… This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg . Muholi’s work…

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1918-2002

Arnold Selby

… Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the ……

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1739-1793

Baron Joachim van Plettenberg

… J.A. van Plettenberg was born on the 8 March 1739 in Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Casimir and … law at the University of…

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1880

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

… Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary …

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1974

Herschelle Herman Gibbs

… South African cricketer, was born at Green Point in Cape Town on 23 February 1974. He completed his secondary … national cricket team, the Proteas, at the…

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Yazeed Kamaldien

… a freelance journalist and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech degree at…

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Thys Dullaart

… Dullaart completed his National Diploma in Journalism at Pretoria Technikon and did two years of a … arts degree at UNISA and two years of his National…

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1919-2010

Ian David Kitson

… Ian David Kitson was born the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization. After serving as a…

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T W Thibedi

… Before joining the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and,…

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