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1908-1982

Ellen Phyllis Hellman

… Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was … who emigrated to South Africa from Bavaria, Germany in 1894, and…

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1924-2008

Esther Barsel

… Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother…

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1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days before he was born in Lisbon. He was educated at the Royal Military…

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1762-1834

Henry Bathurst

… Politician and British Colonial Officer, Bathurst was born in Gloucestershire, England on 22 May 1762. He was the eldest son of the second Earl of Bathurst…

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Anna Tempo

… welfare work among blacks. She focused on visiting women in prison and hospital, and paid special attention to young … these girls both morally and…

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2013

Ephraim Nkwe

… In the midst of the State of Emergency , the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) was formed in March 1987 at a secret meeting in Cape Town. Ephraim Nkwe was…

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1930-2005

Hamilton Naki

… Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in 1930. His family was poor and after completing primary …

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1950

Martin Plaut

… Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950.  His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. … and his mother was an artist working with…

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1921-1980

President Seretse Khama

… Bechuanaland had been put under British protection in the 19th century. Seretse’s name means ‘the clay that … after a rift between his father and grandfather…

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… had left school was a spell behind the counter of a store in Duiwelskloof in the former North Eastern Transvaal. Here, … spent rainy days studying…

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… Topsy Madaka was born in Gratten, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed away in 1990. In…

B-0068165

1963

Robert John McBride

… born on 6 July 1963 at the segregated Addington Hospital in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in the section set aside for Coloured people. His parents ……

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1885

Nehemiah Tile

… Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and received some formal education at Boloto. ……

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 1977.He had been detained at his home…

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1949

Norman Catherine

… Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical … following year he began his career as a…

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1975

Tikkie Sibisi

… Tikkie Sibisi was born in Greater Nigel in 1975 and grew up in Duduza Township with a single parent, his father, and …

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1945

Pieter Dirk-Uys

… Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before … 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in…

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1943-2005

Ronnie Levitan

… Levitan was born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in…

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1910-1989

Issy Heymann

… Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive…

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1911-1990

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

… Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to … an accountant. He enlisted with the South African…

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1921-2020

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

… Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first … had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s…

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1925

Stanley B. Lollan

… Stanley B.  Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…

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1889-1946

Alexander Macaulay Jabavu

… Alexander Macaulay Jabavu was born in 1889 in King William's Town, he was the second son of  John Tengo … at Lovedale, he taught briefly, then on his father…

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1951

Patricia Horn

… Pat Horn initially got exposed to politics in the early 1970s through her involvement with adult … literacy projects during her days as a university student…

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1917-1958

Christopher W. M. Gell

… Christopher Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the … University with a first class pass in1938,…

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1958-2004

Khotso Seatlholo

… on 5 November 1958. He was a student at Naledi High School in Soweto when the 1976 Student riots ensued. Seatlholo, … Vorster ’s Security Police. Khotso…

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Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo

… who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South Africa. He was 75. His death … who set up tents on land that was…

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1936-1973

Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi

… birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to … black South African to form and lead a…

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1958-2004

Martin Tose

… and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of … late Prime Minister, Johannes Strijdom after he…

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