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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… International award winning filmmaker Junaid Ahmed was born in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary…

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a…

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 3 January 1892. After his father … died, Tolkien and his mother went to…

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1919

M. J. M. Williams Shope

… M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a … miner, and Railway and Harbours worker, he became…

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1930-2015

Maggie Smith

… Maggie Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the…

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1952

Saint Mokoena

… He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He … High School were he received art classes until Standard 9. In 1977 he left school…

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1947

Ben Skosana

… Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from … pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier University in Canada, where…

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The Taung Child

… In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart …

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1947

Ben M. Skosana

… Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from … pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier University in Canada, where…

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… as the National-minded Bloc. He was active as a young man in efforts to revive the ANC in the late 1930s, was chosen Transvaal provincial secretary in 1938,…

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1949-2009

Henry Eric Isaacs

… Henry Eric Isaacs was born March 21 in 1949,He grew up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His … an Afrikaner,one grandmother Zulu,two aunts…

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1910-1969

Florence Matomela

… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx control regulations…

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… Stephen Lee was arrested in 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he … African nationality as a…

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1918-1998

Mark Shope

… Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a … miner, and Railway and…

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1804-1856

Chief Kgosi Sekonyela

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the …

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John Gomas

… John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of … Town branch of the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CP) in the late 1920s…

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1911-2002

Dr. Percy Yutar

… Dr. Percy Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his…

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1966-1986

Andrew Sibusiso Zondo

… Andrew Sibusiso Zondo grew up in KwaMashu , Durban , Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). He attended … School and went on to Phakama Higher Primary School in KwaMashu…

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1906-1979

Cecil Williams

… Cecil Williams was born in Cornwall, England in 1906. Williams whose father was a blacksmith left Cornwall for Johannesburg in 1928. After his arrival, he…

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1958

Rooha Variava

… Rooha Variava was born in Pietersburg, South Africa on the 16 December 1958. She completed a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South…

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1938

Aubrey Levin

… Aubrey Levin was born in Johannesburg on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. … While Levin only formally became a qualified psychiatrist in 1969, he entered…

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1940

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

… Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali was born on 17 January 1940 in Vryheid, Natal, where he attended Inkmana High School. His … and Authorship. At the same time, he…

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1922-2004

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

… Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn … with Nelson Mandela. She may have been averse to being in the public eye,…

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1910-1987

Mattheus Uys Krige

… Die Burger. Besides his native Afrikaans, he communicated in perfect English and had command of Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese. [i]…

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1899-1996

Mary Agnes Stainbank

… Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. Anne's DSG at … woman artist, she experienced the…

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1875-1927

James E. Kwegyir Aggrey

… James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and … the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a prime mover…

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Rosalie van der Gucht

… Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown Training College where she started a career in speech and drama…

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1935-2007

Gaus Shikomba

… Born on January 27 1935, at Onashiku shaLaban near Oshakati in Oshana Region, Shikomba joined OPO in 1959 and subsequently Swapo in 1960. He joined the South…

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1958-1985

Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng

… Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the  African National Congress (ANC) activist and … after the  1976 Student Uprisings  to join the ANC in exile. He went…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… Victor Poto was born in 1897 at Libode in western Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South … and was installed as paramount chief of western Pondoland in…

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