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1919-2008

Noni Jabavu

… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and…

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1917-1957

Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo

… Henry Nxumalo was born in 1917 at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus … promise that the missionaries arranged…

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1924-1969

Imam Abdullah Haron

… Imam Abdullah Haron was born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre…

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1798-1872

King Mpande kaSenzangakhona

… who both preceded him as kings of the Zulu. He was born in Babanango, Zululand. Mpande was viewed as a weak man in comparison to his contemporaries. Dingane …

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1931-2018

Samir Amin

… to the discussion over the Third Worlds place in the World economy. As a critical Marxist thinker, he is … of the founders of post-colonial thoughts. Amin…

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1921-1976

Leslie Massina

… Leslie  Massina was born in 1921 in Pimville, Johannesburg, Massina left school to become a … testimony when cross-examined by lawers for the strikers.In the…

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1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… Izak de Villiers was born in Paarl on 30 July 1936. He attended Paarl Gymnasium, a … poet - considered by some to be the best mystical poet in Afrikaans -…

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1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

…   Mandla Nkosi was born on 13 June 1962 in Pimville, Soweto, the third child of Joyce Nkosi. In 1981 he completed Standard Nine at the Sekano Ntoane School…

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1934

Albert Nzula

… Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in … to challenge: A documentary History…

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto , Johannesburg in  1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about … by literature…

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Mabel Balfour

… African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) were arrested in the 1956 Treason Trials, she became part of the Management Committee in 1957. Balfour was arrested…

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1937

Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala

… Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala was born on 21 April 1937 in Bloemfontein. As a young boy Macala tended cattle on a farm in the Orange Free State and passed the…

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1904

Simon Tyeku

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and … skills and keenness towards social responsibility. In both junior…

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1946

Hailu Mergia

… Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew … melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his…

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1786-1870

King Moshoeshoe I

… was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his victims – the word ‘Moshoeshoe’ represented the sound of…

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1936-2017

Philip Ata Kgosana

… Philip Ate Kgosana was born in 1936 in Makapanstad in the northern Transvaal (current day Limpopo), the son of a … to challenge: A documentary History of…

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1913-1979

Mary Moodley

… or Aunty Mary as she was known, was born on 14 March 1914 in Jaggersfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). She … her father attained employment at the…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now  Kwazulu-Natal ), South Africa. Mrs … (then Miss Mathe) was a trainee nurse at…

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1952-2004

Sipho Gumede

… Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was…

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1950-1977

Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee

… Mia Haffejee was born on 6 November 1950. Haffejee grew up in Pietermaritzburg and completed his primary schooling at … his secondary schooling at Woodlands…

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1967-2005

Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi

… Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community Arts…

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1931-2017

Thandi Klaasen

… daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic worker, she grew up in Sophiatown at the heart of black urban culture and … politics, discovering her gift for song…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… Robert Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor … school he was selected to play for the…

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1928-2018

Archibald Mncedisi Sebeko

… “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on  3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s. After…

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1935-2016

Lionel Morrison

… Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's…

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1925-1961

Patrice Émery Lumumba

… 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern … the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central…

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1892-1985

Dr James Sebe Moroka

… of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu  in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March 1892, in Thaba-Nchu. He attended the Wesleyan…

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1913-1970

Debi Singh

… He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near  Durban . As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental…

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