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1922-1988

Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada

… Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).  He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand…

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1952

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa

… Patrick (called Pat) Mautloa was born 24 September 1952 in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal. Mautloa's family moved to Soweto in 1954. He attended Mehlaleng…

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… Barend Jacobus du Plessis was born on 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg to Martie and Jan Hendrik du Plessis. He was the eldest of three children and grew up…

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… Laurence Neil Nathan was born in Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape ) in 1959 to Jewish South African parents. He grew up in Sea Point where he…

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… and women’s rights, Sadie Forman (nee Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish poet and writer, emigrated from Lithuania to South…

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1946-2006

Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley

… Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child … Moodley matriculated from Sastri…

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1955

William Kentridge

… "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, … gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept…

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1903-1972

J B Marks

… staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1919, his parents succeeded in getting him enrolled at the Kilnerton Teachers` Training College…

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1904-1986

Jean van der Poel

… Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her … cum laude and won her the Royal Empire Society prize. In…

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1956-2009

Lucas Seage

… Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…

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1840-1888

William Wellington Gqoba

… William Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of…

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Vuyi Lesley Mbalo

… Vuyi Lesley Mbalo was born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to…

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati … seven children. He attended the St. Paul’s…

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Stanley Silwana

… South Africa  (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended the party night school founded in 1925 in Ferreirastown,  Johannesburg . A…

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Margaret Chuene Mncadi

… Margaret Chuene Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, she graduated from Fort Hare and … of the Witwatersrand. She established a medical practice in…

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1948

Eric Mbatha

… Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto , 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at …

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1947

Peter Hans Paul Gastrow

… by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced … because he had known those affected…

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1875-1945

Samuel E. K. Mqhayi

… Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and … stanzas to  Nkosi Sikelel' I-Afrika  ("God…

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1926

Leonora van den Heever

… Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein . She went on to complete her MA in English …

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1930

Joseph Sallie Molefi

… Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, matriculating in 1948.’…

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1943-1980

Pierre Jacy Fourie

… Pierre Jacy Fourie was born on 26 June 1943 in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent in South Africa…

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1941-2020

Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala

… Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the … he…

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1957

Mohammed Valli Moosa

… It was, however, only at university that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained his BSc degree in…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from…

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1942

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

… Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She … clubs which brought her into contact with people…

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1956

Richard Steele

… was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of … conservative and did…

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1859-1921

John Tengo Jabavu

… John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January  in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown … It was not long before he became one of the brightest boys…

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1656-1734

Anna De Koningh

… Groot Constantia. It is believed that Anna was born in bondage somewhere around 1656 in Batavia, meaning she was very young when she arrived at … of whom…

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1928-2010

Jean Clarice Middleton

… Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban . She attended Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of ……

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… Cassim Amra was born in 1919 in Durban Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal).  He attended Sastri … George Singh and other activists who played a crucial role in…

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