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1918-1975

Thomas Patrick Murray

… Primary School and the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg, Murray was apprenticed to the engineering … and Company Limited where he attained…

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1773-1830

David Stuurman

… was born around 1773, probably near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi … to a wagon wheel, whipped with sjamboks,…

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1925-1961

Frantz Fanon

… Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the … work on the sugar plantations. He lost his father…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1934-2012

Ellen Lambert

… Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province . She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of 19 in…

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1792-1852

Andries Hendrik Potgieter

… Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the  Graaff Reinet  district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the … of Petronella Margaretha and…

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1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended … the slopes of Table Mountain. Daniels had a number of…

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1932

Harold Athol Fugard

… Athol Fugard, born Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard in the remote village of Middleburg on 11 June 1932, grew up in Port Elizabeth. His father was Afrikaner and…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord … Economics. During the Second World War, which broke out in…

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1925-1983

Kippie Jeremiah Moeketsi

… instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste later in life. Kippie's first musical instrument was the clarinet … which he played with his first band…

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1889-1970

James “Sofasonke” Mpanza

… James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of … Africans. He was an eccentric who often rode horseback in…

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1865-1950

Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier

…   Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no …

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