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1870-1947

Horatio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle

… Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle was born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the Eastern Cape where…

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1882-1962

Florence Louise Zerffi

… Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts…

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1935

Esther Mahlangu

… Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg , in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of … painting and beadwork as a…

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2013

Ronald (Ronnie) Britten

… with a teaching diploma, Britten could only obtain a post in the Karoo town of Middelburg. Undeterred he organised for the Teachers League of South Africa …

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1909-1985

Moses Josiah Madiba

… Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven … a communication medium. He received his primary…

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest … and Reuben, who are now both pensioners. He grew…

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1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' … variety of jobs for two years, with no particular…

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1963

Roger Meintjes

… Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…

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1952

Barbara Anne Hogan

… Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, … University of Witwatersrand where she…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

… at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American Body … became Adams College, but was suspended for…

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1919-1976

Dr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe

… National Congress (ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe was president of the Cape ANC and chief organiser of the Defiance Campaign in the…

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1851-1932

Joseph Booth

… Joseph Booth was born in 1851 in Derby, England. A unique figure in the missionary history of central and southern Africa, …

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1956

Ben Mclennan

… Ben Mclennan was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early…

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1894-1974

William George Ballinger

… William George Ballinger was born on 21st of September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British … the Joint Council movement, a…

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Gaur Radebe

… Gaur Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the  African…

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1954

Michael Barry

… Michael Barry was born in 1954 in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). After receiving his schooling in Port Elizabeth, Barry worked as a…

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1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan

… Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell … Jordan's family was…

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1925-1992

Yvonne Bryceland

… Actress Yvonne Bryceland, née Heilbuth, was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian before her theatre debut in Stage Door…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was born on 21 October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 … Secondary School and later Mfundisweni…

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of the six children of the first … After matriculating at the Diocesan…

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1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

… was born Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei . [i] Her father, Chisholm MacDonald, who was born in…

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1949

Joseph Alfers

… Joseph Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg,…

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1947

Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer

… Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp…

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1883-1967

Ethel Ruth Prowse

… Born in Queenstown in 1833, Ruth Prowse is known for her significant … Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived…

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1941

Ray Berman

… Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national household name ……

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… Alan Stewart Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal on 11 January 1903. His father, James Paton, … Scottish immigrant and civil servant, came to…

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1933

Rita Alice Ndzanga

… 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near Ventersdorp, western … Transvaal (now North West Province ). Her…

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1940

James Edward April

… James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now … to attend political rallies at the Grand…

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