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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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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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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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1981

Julius Sello Malema

… involvement Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a domestic worker in Seshego…

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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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1826-1884

King Cetshwayo

… (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of the Zulu kingdom. At time of his birth,  … Mpande…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist…

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1909-1969

Dr. Philip Blaaiberg

… Born in Uniondale in the Cape, Blaaiberg spent his youth in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending a year at the…

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1924-1968

Canodoise (Can) Themba

… Canodoise Daniel Themba (Can Themba) was born in 1924, in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South … Hare, where he acquired a teaching diploma…

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1937-1965

Frederick John Harris

… Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party  In 1962 in the Transvaal,…

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1942-2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

… Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August … at Catholic schools and for some years was a brother in…

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1895-1972

Neville Allan Lewis

… Neville Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was steeped in the tradition…

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1886-1946

Franciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt

… Louis) De Vriendt was born on 2 September 1886**1874 in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a famous … Philomina Eulaers. De Vriendt first…

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1954

Bulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka

… Bulelani Ngcuka was born on 2 May 1954 in Middledrift, Eastern Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married … Ngcuka…

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1931-2000

Ismail Mahomed

… Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second … of Witwatersrand. On attaining his BA with Distinction in 1953, he completed…

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mid 1800s-1921

Martin Lutuli

… Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the…

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1922

Mary Goitsemang Ranta

… Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the  Pretoria  area. After leaving school, she worked as a … Union . She joined the  African National Congress (ANC) …

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Nontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho

… the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa , apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the…

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1906-1980

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi

… Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of … between Engcobo and Idutywa. He moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become…

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1938

Noria Mabasa

… Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one … Loots, A. (2004) “Noria…

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1945

Marlise Joubert

… Marlise Joubert was born in Elim (near Levubu), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province ). She grew up in Warmbaths (Bela Bela) and has degrees in…

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1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township … the case with Sophiatown, whose destruction was completed in…

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1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district …

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