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1941-1989

Maggie Mikula

… Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959.  She then went on to study for a…

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1942

Jeanie Noel

… Jeanie Noel was born in  Durban  as one of twelve children, however her family was … enough to own property, something that was not common in coloured…

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1955

Eric Miller

… Eric Miller  was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he…

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1985

Bathandwa Ndondo

… took him to her elder sister’s family, the Ntsebeza’s, in Cala, Transkei (now Eastern Cape) to raise him. He … education at Cala Village and obtained his…

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his … other to genetic heart-related conditions. The youngest in his…

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1949

Linda Komape

… Linda Komape was born in Gauteng (then Transvaal) in 1949. She did not enter politics at an early stage in her life, but went through a difficult time with…

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1889-1916

Harold Cressy

… Harold Cressy was born on 1 February 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five … eight he was sent to Cape Town to continue his education…

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1925-1976

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

… Joseph Mdluli was born in 1925 in lngwavuma, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), the only son in the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle ……

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1910-1960s

Jameson Gilbert Coka

… Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a … Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), he left school to join it in 1927,…

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

… born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to…

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2012

Michael Ngweyi

… Michael Ngweyi (39) was from Umtata in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2009. … Michael was killed at scene 1 after being shot twice,…

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1948

Berney Perez

… Berney Perez was born in 1948 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised … to work as a freelance photographer, working mainly in and…

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1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… Phaswane Mpe was born and brought up in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane , Limpopo). … (Wits). Not having much money, he found accommodation in…

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1929-2024

James Matthews

… James David Matthews was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing … to his being, and his first writings…

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1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… African National Congress  organiser in the Western Cape. Ngotyana was born in the Transkei in 1922 and completed a few years of secondary schooling. He ……

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1912-1957

Gladstone Xala Tshume

… he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown. He later moved to Port Elizabeth…

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S. S. Tema

… the periphery of organised politics over many years, Tema in 1937 served as chairman of a committee in the Transvaal charged with reviving the  African…

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1973

Shaun Maclean Pollock

… Shaun Pollock was born on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. … he was signed up by the Natal Dolphins as opening batsman…

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1935

Solomon Kerzner

… as long as you please. But why on earth would you want to? In the largest of the fragments, in the crater of an extinct volcano in the Pilanesberg Mountains,…

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1891-1922

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

… Samuel Alfred Long was born in 1891 in Monmouthshire, Wales, Britain. Little is known of Long's … from home when he was ten years old and went coal mining in…

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Violet Weinberg

… Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg,  South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish … South Africans. Weinberg’s political activism started in 1930 at the…

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1909

Frank Modiba

… Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a … and received eight cuts. Modiba came…

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1870-1943

Sir Patrick Duncan

… Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie (Aberdeen-shire). Duncan first educated in Edinburgh, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he…

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1810-1906

Inkosi Sigananda Shezi

… In 1906 he joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax by … attacked by Zululand police…

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1947-2013

Victor Mhleli Ntoni

… Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music … production of the musical “Meropa” as musical director…

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1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. … Society of Engineers and was blacklisted for his part in the 1913 strike…

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Veerammal Naidoo

… imprisonments of her husband, a leading political activist in the Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Thambi Naidoo was the sole … left. Her brother, Narainsamy Pillay…

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Harry Moyaga

… it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an artist. She kept alive their … Moyaga believes that her influence still sustains…

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1890-1983

Magdalena Gertruide Sauer

… was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South Africa, and was also interested in restoring and…

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1922-1978

Shulamith Muller

… Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in…

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